Amazon launches next Linux server OS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently launched Linux 2, with access to the latest 4.9 LTS kernel. According to the company, the newest version “provides a high performance, stable, and secure execution environment for cloud and enterprise applications.” The system...
Microsoft acquires Avere Systems
Microsoft recently announced it has agreed to purchase data storage startup Avere Systems for an undisclosed amount. The move could help Microsoft’s Azure bolster revenue by targeting customers who want to take advantage of the cloud but are not ready to...
Patches to Intel kernel flaw could slow down computers by 30 %
An apparent security flaw has been reportedly found in almost every Intel processor chip made in the last decade, forcing a redesign of Linux and Windows kernels. Adding insult to injury, the required...
Alibaba Cloud announces Indian data center
Alibaba Cloud, a subsidiary of Alibaba Group, announced its first India data center based in the city of Mumbai is set to open in January 2018. The company originally announced plans to establish two new data centers in Mumbai,...
You love the idea of buying an AI and IoT device like Google Home or Amazon Echo for the holiday season. You want to speak and have it deliver a song or weather report or sports score. You’ve seen it. You’ve used it. Sounds...
Companies tag team Heptio Ark project
Austin, Texas -- Microsoft and Heptio announced at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2017 they are working together to ensure the Heptio Ark project provides a Kubernetes disaster recovery solution for customers wanting to use it on Azure. The companies collaboration...
Amazon and VMware extend availability of VMware Cloud on AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) and VMware announced they are expanding the availability of VMware Cloud on AWS, as well as providing additional capabilities that help customers with disaster recovery and incorporate on-demand capacity.
VMware customers have...
Microsoft and SAP compete against Amazon in cloud market space
In an effort to compete with Amazon in the cloud market space, Microsoft announced it is expanding its partnership with German enterprise software company SAP. The companies will deploy each other’s cloud solutions internally, and...
McAfee announces intent to purchase Skyhigh Networks
In an effort to build upon its security portfolio, McAfee announced Monday it intends to acquire Skyhigh Networks for an undisclosed amount. The deal comes fewer than eight months after the company was spun out from Intel as...
New smart city will embrace "high-speed digital networks, data centers" and other technology-focused infrastructure
To the west of Phoenix, Ariz., an 25,000-acre plot of land could eventually be home to a greenfield smart city thanks to significant investment from billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates, according...
AT&T has more IoT devices on its wireless network than any other U.S. carrier, and the company sees partnerships as a key driver of its success. The carrier has leveraged its relationships with the world's biggest providers of cloud services to create new partnerships...
IBM launches new Cloud Private software built on Kubernetes
IBM rolled out its new Cloud Private software platform Wednesday aimed at tech-companies that want on-premise cloud capabilities to deploy and launch applications.
Many companies intend to migrate to the public cloud, but are hesitant to abandon...
Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft and Intel beat earning expectations
Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft and Intel posted quarterly earnings last Thursday, which reflected a shift away from company-owned data centers and toward the cloud. All of the companies surpassed expected earnings, resulting in a surge in share prices...
The French firm implemented Azure IoT Edge and Azure machine learning to offer enhanced solutions for oil and gas companies
French company Schneider Electric, which focuses on the digital transformation of energy management and automation, selected Microsoft’s Azure machine learning and Azure IoT Edge to...
The IoT Utilities Market size is set to exceed USD 15 billion by 2024, as per a new research report by Global Market Insights, Inc.
The increasing need to enhance the operational efficiency in the utility sector is expected to boost the IoT utilities market...
I have to get something off my chest. While I love what today's smartphones like Apple iPhone, Google Android and Samsung Galaxy do for us, I absolutely hate the hell they put us through with the annual updates to the operating systems (OS). Updates...
Based on Verizon's annual "State of the Market: Internet of Things 2017" report, the manufacturing sector is leading the way in adoption of internet of things technologies with an 84% increase in number of year-over-year network connections. As digital transformation, based on IoT adoption,...
For machining tool manufacturer, predictive analytics provides broad set of efficiencies
Swedish firm Sandvik Coromant is part of the Sandvik Group, a global engineering organization that produces machining tools and tooling systems for the manufacturing industry. Last year, the company teamed up with Microsoft to...
The internet of things may someday deliver a world of robots and intelligent machines that control all manner of devices, but for now, most connected devices are ultimately controlled by humans. Humans need information - we demand data, and then we want data about...
End-to-end IoT offering targets use cases, including supply chain, smart inventory management and predictive maintenance
Orange Business Services and Microsoft announced they are collaborating to deliver end-to-end internet of things solutions to boost the digital processes of companies in the manufacturing sector.
Through this collaboration, enterprises...
Oracle releases additional cloud services to compete with AWS, Google and Microsoft
Oracle chief technology officer Larry Ellison debuted a new 18c version of its marquee database software at the company’s OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, Califo., which leverages machine learning to automate the database...
Dells brings Microsoft Azure Stack to channel partners
Dell EMC recently announced a string of updates toward enhancing the support of Microsoft data center environments. The company said it is bringing cloud computing platform Microsoft Azure Stack to its channel partners in an effort to...
Google takes virtual machines to a different level with nested virtualizations
Google recently announced it has brought nested virtualization on Compute Engine virtual machine instances. The feature takes virtual machines to a meta level, enabling users to run virtual machine instances within a virtual machine...
NEC said these new solutions will help companies willing to undergo digital transformation processes
NEC Corporation of America (NEC), a technology integrator of advanced IT, networking, communications, and multimodal biometric solutions, announced that it will show two artificial intelligence (AI) and internet of things (IoT)...
