BrandPost: Right-sizing Public Cloud Instances Can Cut Costs 20%-40%
In a recent post, we noted that many companies are struggling to control their public cloud costs, even though a key driver for moving to the public cloud in the first place was often to cut...
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: The 80/20 data science dilemma
The emergence of cloud has led to an explosion of data that has left data scientists in high demand.A job that didnrsquo;t exist a decade ago has topped Glassdoorrsquo;s ranking of best roles in...
View ArticleGoogle Home’s biggest flaw fixed: Support for reminders finally arrives
It's hard to believe, but Google Home has gone a whole year with zero reminders support.
View ArticleStar Trek: Discovery is getting pirated a lot
The first two episodes of Discovery are both among the 20 most pirated TV shows.
View ArticleEquifax CEO falls on his sword weeks after credit biz admits mega-breach
Well, what else could he do? Equifax's chairman and chief exec today resigned, weeks after the consumer credit reporting agency admitted a massive security breach.…
View ArticleNovartis wins 1st place at the SAMS Europe Award 2017 with “Cloud SAM for...
License Control for Salesforce from Aspera enables cloud cost optimization.Aachen/Berlin, Germany, September 26, 2017 - Last night in Berlin, Novartis, the Swiss pharmaceutical group and a client of...
View ArticleFirefox takes a Quantum leap forward with new developer edition
A new look, better dev tools, and up to twice the performance in key benchmarks.
View ArticleWhat’s new in React 16 JavaScript UI library
React 16, the latest version of the popular JavaScript library for building UIs, goes live today, with a rewritten core for better performance.Dubbed “React Fiberrdquo; during its development, React 16...
View ArticleFCC declares that USA’s wireless competition problem has been solved
Ajit Pai's FCC says mobile market is competitive, in change from Obama years.
View ArticleVacuums, fans… and an electric car? Dyson promises an EV in 2020
The company knows how to make electric motors and batteries.
View ArticleBossie Awards 2017: The best machine learning tools
The best open source software for machine learningImage by IDGItrsquo;s just possible that yoursquo;ve heard something about “machine learning.” Safely ignored by most of us these past many years,...
View ArticleBossie Awards 2017: The best networking and security software
The best open source networking and security softwareImage by IDGWe seem to be witnessing a renaissance in open source security.Security projects swarmed the Bossies last year, and the hits kept coming...
View ArticleBossie Awards 2017: The best software development tools
The best open source software development toolsImage by IDGNative developers, web developers, IoT developers, developers who ride the JVM, even developers who long to build on blockchainmdash;there is...
View ArticleBossie Awards 2017: The best cloud computing software
The best open source software for cloud computingImage by IDGContainers, microservices, functions as a servicemdash;itrsquo;s a light, fast, devopsy new world of distributed systems, service meshes,...
View ArticleBossie Awards 2017: The best databases and analytics tools
The best open source databases and data analytics toolsImage by IDGWersquo;ve watched a parade of NoSQL databases march through the Bossies the last few years. Well, SQL has had enough! Our 2017...
View ArticleGov contractor nicked on suspicion of Official Secrets Act breach
65-yr-old woman being held in London The Metropolitan Police has announced the arrest of a government contractor after a tip-off.…
View ArticleTalkTalk once told GCHQ: Cyberattack? We’d act fast to get sports back up
National Cyber Crime Unit spills on pre-2015 megahack convo Prior to its disastrous 2015 mega hack, TalkTalk had told GCHQ that should an attack occur, its main focus would be to restore "online sports...
View ArticleAmazon’s Echo Show can’t play YouTube videos anymore
Removing the largest source of online video from Amazon's only Echo with a screen
View ArticleHere’s what to look for in Elon Musk’s big rocket speech Friday
We want to see how Musk and SpaceX get to Mars from here.
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: If you don’t make a reservation, you’re going to...
The pricing models for compute resources in the cloud can be complicated.Some (but not all) variations include the following: On-demand instances Reserved/prepaid capacity Spot instances Dedicated...
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