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IBM shunts Swift onto its cloud | #IBMInterConnect
Less than six month after Apple donated the Swift programming language to the open-source community, IBM has officially made it available via its cloud. IBM said it’s the first cloud provider to enable Swift application development on the server-side during the announcement at #IBMInterConnect. In addition, Big Blue also added a preview for the Swift ...
Microsoft will not alter Windows Server hardware support policy
Following on from last month’s ever-so-slightly dictatorial announcement that new PCs will only support Windows 10 and not earlier versions of the OS, Microsoft has penned a somewhat peculiar blog post to say it will NOT be doing the same for Windows Server. Back in January, Microsoft caused more than few nervous IT managers to recoil ...
Lenovo Connect means you can stay online anywhere, without a SIM
Lenovo Group Ltd. has come up with a novel way to keep its PC, tablet and smartphone users connected even when they travel to other countries. The company has just launched a new service called “Lenovo Connect” which means users won’t have to buy a new SIM card each time they visit a new country. ...
Cloudera shores up data pipelines with latest Apache Kafka release
Cloudera Inc. is stepping up its data streaming game with the integration of the latest release of Apache Kafka into its popular Cloudera Enterprise Hadoop distribution. For data-driven organizations, it’s no longer enough to simply get Hadoop up and running. What with the enormous amounts of data such organizations are spewing out, they need newer, ...
Google’s Cloud Vision takes image recognition to the next level
Google has thrown another new AI tool into its developer’s box in the form of its Cloud Vision API. The beta release of Cloud Vision, which had been available in limited preview since last December, is the latest in a flurry of AI-related announcements from Silicon Valley giants, as Google goes head to head with ...
Big Blue touts an easier way to deploy Apache Spark
Big Blue is hoping to smooth the passage for organizations looking to deploy Apache Spark with a new offering aimed at helping them to get the data processing engine up and running as swiftly and as easily as possible. The company’s new Platform Conductor for Spark was announced yesterday at the IBM PartnerWorld Leadership Conference ...
MapR offers free Apache Spark training for developers
MapR Technologies Inc., is getting serious about addressing the well-known “skills gap” in tech; it just rolled out a new on-demand training and certification course for Apache Spark, the in-memory analytics engine that many people think is of the most important big data technologies. MapR is better known for its association with Hadoop than Spark. ...
SpotCues takes on Slack & Facebook with location-based social networking for the enterprise
A new contextualized, location-based social network is hoping to undermine more established services like Facebook and Slack in the enterprise by allowing businesses to better interact with mobile customers and end users. SpotCues, which launched yesterday, is a social network that uses geo-fencing or Wi-Fi to create location-based social networks. The idea is straightforward enough: ...
Dell/EMC deal almost in the bag, says Dell
Dell Inc. has written a letter to its employees saying that its deal to acquire EMC Corp. is on track, despite the appearance of a flurry of rumors to the contrary in recent weeks. An open letter to the company’s employees, Rory Read, Chief Integration Officer at Dell, said that he wants to “address some ...
Windows 10 just got a big thumbs up from the Department of Defense
Microsoft has been given a huge lift this morning with the news that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has agreed to migrate more than four million devices to Windows 10 by January next year. That’s a big boost for Microsoft, which revealed in January that Windows 10 was running on more than 200 million ...