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VMware adds HTML-5 Host Client to vSphere 6.0
VMware Inc. has added a new HTML-5 Web interface to vSphere 6.0 in what is the second major update for the tool. vSphere 6.0’s new Host Client is derived from what VMware calls a “Fling”, that is, unsupported code the company has written but not incorporated into its products, but which admins are encouraged to ...
Software to account for almost half of all Big Data revenues by 2026, Wikibon says
The growing usage of Software-as-a-Service, or SaaS-based, applications in the enterprise means that software will displace traditional services to account for almost half of all Big Data revenues by the middle of next decade, Wikibon CTO David Floyer asserted in a new interview. Speaking to SiliconANGLE ahead of the publication of Wikibon’s Big Data Vendor ...
Dell’s in the doldrums ahead of EMC merger
Dell Inc. has enjoyed the luxury of not needing to post it’s financial results for almost two-and-a-half years following its decision to take itself private again, but with the company firmly setting its sights on an EMC Corp. gobble, its been forced to open its accounting books up for scrutiny once again. And those numbers ...
Oracle posts mixed Q3 earnings: Cloud grows but profits slide
Oracle posted a disappointing set of Q3 fiscal 2016 numbers, blaming the strong dollar for cutting into its profits. The database giant reported revenues of $9 billion for the quarter, a three percent decline from one year ago, and net income of $2.14 billion, down 14 percent year-on-year. Still, the company said that when those ...
Dell to sell off “non-core” businesses to pay back EMC debt
With just weeks to go before EMC Corp. shareholders meet to vote on whether or not to go ahead and merge with Dell Inc., the two companies have put together documentation arguing the case for the merger, and that documentation also reveals a number of Dell’s non-core businesses are set to be sold off. The ...
Dropbox bails out of Amazon’s cloud
Dropbox Inc. built the world’s most popular file sharing and storage service on the back of Amazon Web Service’s cloud infrastructure, but after years hosting its services in the cloud, it’s now using its own technology instead. “We’re excited to announce that we’re now storing and serving over 90 percent of our users’ data on ...
Microsoft to open up Minecraft world for AI developers through open-source AIX program
Microsoft has said it’s going to make its AIX platform for testing artificial intelligence projects open-source. AIX is currently used by Microsoft Research, Redmond’s boffin lab, and is also available as a private beta to a select bunch of academic researchers. The platform allows researchers to test their AI research in the unstructured play mode ...
Docker’s Swarm smashes Kubernetes in Docker-sponsored benchmark tests
What with container technology still relatively new, practitioners are still debating which orchestration platform is the best to use. Now Docker Inc. is weighing into the debate to push its Swarm platform as the number one choice, and has just published results of a new benchmark test that highlights its advantages over the competing Kubernetes ...
Google transfers Kubernetes to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), an organization which just came into existence last year, has said it’s selected Google’s Kubernetes container orchestration tool as its first containerization technology. The CNCF, which boasts the full support of the Linux Foundation, said Kubernetes is just the first of many open-source tools it’s planning to support. The ...
Servers are selling like hot cakes again
Servers sold like hot cakes in the last year, with vendors shifting a record 9.7 million units in 2015, raking in revenues of $55.1 billion for their efforts. International Data Corp. (IDC) said in its Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker that this amounted to an eight percent increase in revenues and 4.9 percent more shipments than ...