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Windows Server 2016 preview offers first glimpse of Hyper-V containers
Microsoft has hit a milestone with the inclusion of Hyper-V containers, a new technology designed to support containerized applications, in the fourth technical preview of the upcoming Windows Server 2016 operating system. The release is Microsoft’s attempt to cater to the rapidly growing number of enterprise CIOs who’re setting their sights on container technologies as ...
Jolla’s lost its jolly: Layoffs loom as funding dries up
Finnish mobile maker Jolla has fallen on hard times, just two years after the company debuted the first smartphone running Sailfish OS, an alternative operating system based on Nokia’s old MeeGo platform, whose inventors hoped would become the ‘third’ major mobile operating system. Jolla’s Chairman and co-founder Antii Saarnio admitted last this weekend that the ...
Federal data center consolidation plan goes awry with 2,000 ‘forgotten’ facilities
It turns out that the U.S government’s much-hyped data center consolidation program has spectacularly failed, despite earlier claims that federal agencies had saved around $3.6 billion between 2011 and 2014 by closing down data centers and migrating to the cloud. The stark news came after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) revealed it had been made ...
Google lets you build a customized cloud instance in an instant
Google has made an interesting move to woo developers to its cloud platform by allowing them to create compute images with customized memory and virtual CPU configurations. The new feature is called Custom Machine Types, and can basically be thought of as a way for users to build their own instances to fit the needs ...
Google bags VMware co-founder Diane Greene to transform its cloud business
Google has pulled off a minor coup by convincing VMware Inc. founder Diane Greene to head up its cloud computing business. Greene was convinced to join Google after the Web giant snapped up her latest startup, a company called Bebop Technologies. She’ll be heading up a new team to oversee all of Google’s cloud products, ...
Cloudera takes aim at Big Data pain with new Hadoop release
Big Data leader Cloudera Inc. is hoping to take the sting out of running Hadoop with the latest release of its flagship Cloudera Enterprise 5.5 platform. The new release includes a limited beta of a new tool that helps customers better understand which workloads are most suited to run on Hadoop. The newly integrated Cloudera Navigator ...
Nokia’s Suri says Cisco-Ericsson partnership validates his Alcatel-Lucent takeover
Nokia Oyj CEO Rajeev Suri said the recently announced partnership between Cisco Systems Ltd and Ericsson AB that will see the two companies resell each other’s products and services and develop new ones jointly, confirms that his decision to acquire Alcatel-Lucent SA was the right one. Suri’s comments came as Nokia formally commenced its share ...
Splice Machine revs up RDBMS solution with Apache Spark
Splice Machine Inc. has added some analytical muscle to its SQL-RDBMS-on-Hadoop solution by tapping into Apache Spark’s in-memory technology. The result is a hybrid SQL database businesses can use to perform transactional and analytical workloads in tandem. The database is already a popular alternative to handling multi-terabyte workloads on conventional relational databases like Oracle’s, running ...
Azerbaijan’s Internet access goes up in flames
The entire population of Azerbaijan was wiped off the Internet for several hours on Monday night, after a fire overwhelmed a data center operated by Delta Telecom, the main ISP in the country. Azerbaijan fell into the abyss at around 4 pm local time (7 am New York time), BBC Russia reported. The outage affected ...
Citrix to split itself apart at shareholder’s behest; 1,000 layoffs to come
Beleaguered IT giant Citrix Systems Inc. has announced a major organizational reshuffle that will see it lay off around 1,000 full time staff and spin-off some of its most well-known technologies, while exiting other businesses entirely. The big news is that Citrix is casting off its “GoTo” product family, which includes GoToAssist, GoToMeeting, and GoToMyPC, ...