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Kano is an easy-to-use $150 computer for kids and parents to explore...
The $150 Kano computer that kids (or anyone else) can build themselves and then use to learn to code, is now available to anyone. My 8-year-old daughter and I took one for a spin. Kano is an...
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OpenStack-friendly Blue Box lands $10M to push its private cloud
Blue Box, the Seattle-based startup that in September showcased an expandable private cloud built on top of OpenStack, has brought in a $10 million series B funding round. The startup did not disclose...
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It’s now easier to pay your bills on the Google Cloud
Google’s made it easier for developers to pay their bills on the Google Cloud Platform, the search giant said today. Coders can now use a single billing account to pay for all of their projects without...
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ThoughtSpot’s data analytics hardware is now available to the public
Big data startup ThoughtSpot said Tuesday that its core product, the ThoughtSpot Relational Search Appliance, is now available to the general public. ThoughtSpot wants to bring a Google-like search...
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Joyent gets $15M in funding and tries to jump on the container bandwagon
Joyent wants the world to know that it has been using containers within its own cloud infrastructure for roughly a decade and is hoping to attract new customers with the fact. Joyent gets $15M in...
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The target audience for Google Container Engine is wondering about security...
Google wants to show the enterprise world that it can trust it when it comes to container technology. But if you want to give its new container engine a test run, you won't be able to use it on other...
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A milestone moment for Microsoft: .NET is now an open-source project
In what probably never would have happened under the first two CEOs to lead the historic software company, Microsoft plans to announce on Wednesday that it is open sourcing the entire .NET framework, a...
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IBM to build two supercomputers for the U.S. Department of Energy
IBM said today that it will develop two new supercomputers for the U.S. Department of Energy that are based on IBM’s new Power servers and will contain NVIDIA GPU accelerators and Mellanox networking...
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Facebook shows the promise of SDN with new networking tech
Facebook detailed on Friday a new networking technology dubbed Data Center Fabric that coordinates all of the information flowing throughout its new data center in Altoona, Iowa. The Altoona facility...
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Microsoft puts Docker on Windows clients
Microsoft said today that users can now run Docker inside a Windows machine and manage Linux-based containers using the new Docker Command Line Interface for Windows. The news follows up on the recent...
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Qualcomm aims to build server chips that power the data center
Qualcomm is moving beyond mobile chips and will target the data center market with new server-chips, according to Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf. Mollenkopf detailed the mobile chip-maker’s plans during...
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Microsoft plays nice with Docker while Azure takes a hit
While many tech enthusiasts may still be reeling from last week’s wave of Amazon-related cloud announcements, this week showed that Amazon isn’t the only company making big cloud news. Microsoft plays...
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Avi Networks, fresh with $33M, aims to virtualize the network
Networking startup Avi Networks is ready to explain just how it virtualizes networking gear so that enterprises don’t have to rely on legacy equipment. The startup is also announcing that it has raised...
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Microsoft open sources cloud framework that powers Halo
Microsoft is continuing its open-source push, this time announcing that it will open source its Project Orleans cloud computing web framework. The framework has supposedly been “used extensively” in...
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Rackspace joins the OpenPower Foundation
Rackspace is now an official member of the OpenPower Foundation, the IBM-created organization whose job is to help oversee IBM’s open-source chips; these chips are posed to give Intel’s x86 chips a run...
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Reports: US to confirm North Korea behind the Sony hack
After much speculation, the U.S. government will reportedly confirm soon, as early as Thursday, that North Korea was responsible for the massive hack against Sony Pictures Entertainment, according to...
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It’s all Docker, containers and the cloud on the Structure Show
It’s safe to say that Docker has had a momentous year with the container-management startup gaining a lot of developer interest and scoring a lot of support from big tech companies like Amazon, Google,...
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How NASA launched its web infrastructure into the cloud
Among U.S. government agencies, the adoption of cloud computing hasn’t been moving full steam ahead, to say the least. Even though 2011 saw the Obama administration unveil the cloud-first initiative...
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Meteor wants to be the warp drive for building real-time apps
For most organizations, building a modern-day cloud application that rivals something as clean and fast as Uber or Facebook is, obviously, not an easy-to-do task. The art of crafting a responsive app...
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US weather agency to boost supercomputers to 2.5 petaflops each
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) plans to upgrade the performance of its two supercomputers with a roughly tenfold increase of capacity by October 2015, the agency said...
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