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Intel refocusing itself, and its revenue stream, on cloud

Analysts expect Intel to increase its investment in private cloud tech -- areas in which it already has strength.

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Cloud will make U.S. immigration agency more agile

Mark Schwartz, CIO of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, has turned to the cloud for a faster, more agile development model.

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Red Hat shows us its OpenStack arsenal

One stack to rule them all, One stack to find them, One stack to bring them all and in the cloud bind them!

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Apple's iCloud problems are reportedly due to office politics

Two engineering groups may be butting heads over how to scale Siri's back-end to Apple's other services.

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Google's CEO just called the next wave in computing, and it's not VR

"In the long run we will evolve in computing from a mobile-first to an AI-first world," said Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

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Microsoft's weak phone sales drag down its Surface and cloud wins

Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia is proving to be quite the albatross around the company's neck. The company has stepped away from focusing on phones, and its handset sales revenue fell by almost half in the first quarter.

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Dropbox is dropping Windows XP support and blocking Windows XP users this summer

There will be no official way to use Dropbox on Windows XP past August 2016.

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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS packs a lot of punches for enterprise customers

The latest LTS release of Ubuntu introduces 'Snaps' that may change the Linux landscape forever.

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Chatbots land on Skype's Mac client and Web app

Now you can chat with Skype's bots on more platforms including Macs and the web version.

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Making the case for in-house data centers

With seemingly everything moving to the cloud these days, it’s important to know when setting up your own data management center can still be the right decision.

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Cloud review: Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM and Joyent

The top five public clouds pile on the services and options, while adding unique twists

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As Intel shifts its focus to the cloud, it commands its PC products to fight—or die

Intel is moving to slowly extricate itself from the PC market through a competitive process where every project in Intel's client PC business is being evaluated for its future prospects.

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AWS focuses on hard disks for new big data services

Amazon Web Services is going retro to help companies deal with big data workloads. The cloud provider announced Tuesday that it's launching two new volume types for its Elastic Block Store service that are powered by traditional,...

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9 new cloud features Amazon announced, and 1 it didn’t

Amazon Web Services held a Summit today in Chicago and announced nifty new tools for its cloud, but one rumored product that could have Amazon’s cloud partners worried remained under wraps.

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New AWS service helps companies to move their apps to the cloud

A new Amazon cloud service announced Tuesday could help companies with legacy applications have an easier time taking the leap to the cloud.

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Do Microsoft customers really need Software Assurance?

Not every Microsoft customer needs software assurance on all of the vendor's offerings. Eliminating SA on some products can lead to savings of 20, 30 or 40 percent of your annual maintenance spend with Microsoft.

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Mesosphere open sources DC/OS data center management platform

Cloud computing startup Mesosphere has decided to open source its platform for managing data center resources, with the backing of over 60 tech companies, including Microsoft, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Cisco Systems.

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Open Container Initiative addresses Docker, CoreOS image problem

The Open Container Initiative finally takes the much needed step towards container standardization.

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