Saturday April 27, 2024

Watch the Microsoft Build 2016 Day 2 keynote live right here

 Microsoft is holding its annual Build developer conference in San Francisco this week and after focusing on Windows, Xbox, HoloLens, and Cortana yesterday, the company will shine the spotlight on its cloud and developer tools today. You can watch the live stream right here. Read More Tweet This Post

Watch the Microsoft Build 2016 keynote live right here

 Microsoft is holding its annual Build developer conference in San Francisco this week and the company is kicking off the event with its first of two major keynotes this morning. You can watch the live stream right here. The keynote is scheduled to start at 8:30am Pacific, 11:30am Eastern, and 17:30 Central European Time. Read More […]

Top 10 Cloud postings

Top 10 Cloud postings 10 reasons to move Disaster Recovery to the Cloud (15.4) Top 10 reasons why the cloud makes sense for disaster recovery planning Cloud data disaster recovery protection solutions offer a combination of the latest advancements… Top 10 Reasons Cloud Solutions are Expanding (12.5) Top 10 Reasons Cloud Computing is Exploding As CIOs and businesses move […]

Microsoft: Windows 10 now runs on 270M monthly active devices

 Following from the unmitigated disaster that was Windows 8, Windows 10 has been doing rather well for Microsoft. After announcing that its flagship operating system ran on 200 million monthly active devices in January, the company today used its Build keynote to announce that this number is now up to 270 million monthly active devices. […]

Dell reportedly near closing the sale of its IT services unit to Japan’s NTT Data

 Dell is reportedly finalizing the sale of its IT consulting unit to NTT Data for $3.5 billion. According to Reuters, the deal, which will help Dell pay down debt from its $67 billion acquisition of EMC Corp., may officially be announced today. Read More Tweet This Post

NTT to buy Dell’s services division for $3.05 billion

 You may know Dell as a computer and server maker, but Dell also operates a substantial IT services division — at least it did until today. NTT Data, the IT services company of NTT, is acquiring Dell Systems for $3.05 billion. The main reason why Dell sold off its division is that the company needs […]

BetterWorks raises another $20M to build a ‘business operating system’ for enterprises

 BetterWorks, a platform for employees to set themselves goals, share them with others in their organization and track how well those goals are being met, has raised another $20 million in Series B funding. The company is not disclosing its valuation but we understand from sources close to the deal that it is around $100 million. […]

Google opens access to its speech recognition API, going head to head with Nuance

 Google is planning to compete with Nuance and other voice recognition companies head on by opening up its speech recognition API to third-party developers. To attract developers, the app will be free at launch with pricing to be introduced at a later date. We’d been hearing murmurs about this service developing for weeks now. The company formally announced […]

Google Stackdriver helps IT get unified view across AWS and Google Cloud

 Today at the GCPNext16 event in San Francisco, Google announced the launch of Google StackDriver, a tool that gives IT a unified tool for monitoring, alerting, incidents management and logging complete with dashboards providing visual insights across each category. Google purchased Stackdriver, the Cambridge, MA company in 2014 when it was mostly devoted to AWS cloud […]

Here are the 59 startups that demoed at Y Combinator Winter ’16 Demo Day 2

 “Food, housing, healthcare, transportation. Life essentials made better and more affordable.” These are the types of startups that partner Paul Buchheit said were demoing today at Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 Demo Day 2. Yesterday, we covered the first 60 startups from the batch, and picked our 7 favorites. Plus, check out our picks for the […]