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Linux Foundation offers OpenStack Admin Course

As the adoption of OpenStack increases, there is growing demand for professionals well versed with this technology.

iOS gamers: Get Monument Valley free in the App Store

The award winning and popular game Monument Valley is now free in the iOS app store

Microsoft brings Debian GNU/Linux to Azure cloud

Azure customers will now be able to run Debian GNU/Linux based virtual machines.rn

LinkedIn mobile apps for Android, iOS get radical redesign

LinkedIn's apps for Android and iOS got a major makeover designed to provide a more focused user experience. The software also has a new app launcher that makes it easier for people to access LinkedIn's additional mobile apps.

Federal CIOs struggle to recruit and retain top IT talent

Government officials stress the need for CIOs to step up IT recruiting and training efforts. They also stress the need to engage more actively with younger workers as they groom the next generation of agency leaders.

Raspberry Pi foundation launches $5 Pi Zero

… and you can thank Google chairman Eric Schmidt for the low price tag

Feds look to breathe new life into legacy IT

Federal IT managers believe that they can breathe new life into a majority of aging applications, but say modernization as an u2018urgentu2019 priority.

WordPress.com rebuilds codebase, releases code as open source

Bye bye PHP, hello JavaScriptrn

State CIOs will focus on security and cloud in 2016

Security concerns rate at the top of NASCIO poll for third straight year, while cultural and administrative challenges slow the adoption of cloud computing in state governments.

Mirantis Fuel becomes an OpenStack Project

Itu2019s part of the OpenStack Big Tent nowrn

IBM forms practice to improve engagement for sports fans

Big Blue's new Sports and Entertainment Global Consortium and the IBM Sports, Entertainment and Fan Experience consulting practice aims to offer sports enterprises an integrated capability spanning design, strategy, technology and data to drive

Google+ updates aim to breathe new life into ailing social network

Google whittled down its Google+ platform to the bone as part of a new redesign that highlights groups and topics. But does the latest batch of changes represent a new beginning for the struggling social network, or the beginning of the end?

5 IT industry predictions for 2016 from Forrester and IDC

The continued dominance of the cloud, and the continued shortage of talent paint a perplexing picture of the state of IT next year.

Facebook does iOS alerts with new Notify app

Notify, Facebook's new iOS app for alerts, seems simple on the surface, but the company's endgame is much more complex.

New Splice Machine RDBMS unites OLTP and OLAP

The 2.0 version of Splice Machine's relational database brings together the scalability of Hadoop and the in-memory performance of Spark.

The Linux Foundation announces OpenHPC Collaborative Project

The OpenHPC project will provide a new, open source framework for high performance computing environments.rn

IDC says big data spending to hit $48.6 billion in 2019

The research firm predicts the market for big data technology and services will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 23.1 percent through 2019.

CIOs receive low marks on IT reform report card

Nearly a year after the sweeping FITARA overhaul took effect, agencies continue to struggle in areas like risk reporting and data center consolidation, but lawmakers acknowledge IT reform is a work in progress.

Facebook shuts up critics with impressive Q3 financials

Despite a few slow quarters and many damning predictions, Facebook's future looks bright again based on its accelerated growth on multiple fronts during the third quarter.

4 old-school-BlackBerry features in the new PRIV

BlackBerry's new PRIV smartphone may run the Android OS, but it's still a true BlackBerry, thanks to these four recognizable features.

Thinking algorithm ready to take on conventional medicine

An algorithm built by a San Francisco startup soon will begin using images archived at operating at imaging centers to teach itself to spot the signs of disease. If it succeeds, medicine will never be the same.

Health IT use lags despite consumer interest

Nielsen research indicates that healthcare providers have been slow to incorporate technology into their practices, leaving telemedicine a far-off prospect.

Accenture invests in artificial intelligence R&D

Accenture says it is committing a significant portion of its global research and development to artificial intelligence and is opening a new Accenture Technology Lab and Centre for Innovation in Dublin, Ireland.

Watch out CentOS, Ubuntu here comes openSUSE Leap

openSUSE announces Leap 42.1rn

Partnership powers predictive and prescriptive analytics

The combination of GoodData's cloud-based analytics distribution platform and Absolutdata's big data analytics consulting expertise will help the partners accelerate their clients' ability to deploy predictive and prescriptive analytic

Microsoft brings Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Azure

2M businesses pay for Google for Work, but what does that mean?

Google has in the past been tightlipped on how many businesses pay for its Google for Work suite of productivity apps, but this week it said 2 million companies are paid subscribers. It did not, however, specify how many people within those companies

MongoDB extends database to new users, adds enterprise features

The latest version of MongoDB features graphical tools, business intelligence connectors and application performance monitoring tool integration designed to make data in the NoSQL database accessible to business analysts, data scientists, executives

SUSECon 2015: SUSE joins the Cloud Foundry

SUSE will work with SAP on a key Cloud Foundry project.rn

8 ecommerce categories that will be hot in 2016

Which ecommerce categories will see increased sales and opportunities in the next 12 months? Ecommerce and digital marketing pros share their early 2016 predications.

ExtraHop appliance blends historical data with real-time wire data

The ExtraHop Explore analytics appliance is designed to give organizations the capability to blend historical data with real-time network, client, application, infrastructure and business data.

7-Eleven takes a big gulp of customer data

The ubiquitous convenience store chain updates its loyalty program from punch cards to a mobile app for super-frequent patronsu2029

Federal IT outsourcing spend alarmingly poorly managed

The U.S. government is leaving billions of dollars on the table due to poorly managed and duplicative IT outsourcing deals, according to a recent report by the Government Accountability Office.

When Walgreens uses digital mapping, Rx marks the spot

The Walgreens pharmacy chain uses a geographic information system and demographic data to decide where to open new drugstores.

6 things to love about DROID Turbo 2 (and 5 to hate)

Verizon's latest flagship DROID smartphone, the Turbo 2 from Motorola, hits store shelves this week, and though there's a lot to like, the handset also has a handful of shortcomings.

IBM stirs Spark-as-a-service into IBM Bluemix

The new IBM Analytics on Apache Spark service is designed to allow developers to infuse applications on the Bluemix cloud platform with real-time analytics.

Twitter CEO proves he still doesn’t get it

At its largest conference of the year, Twitter failed to address the underlying cause of its ongoing struggles. The company is running out of time for a turnaround, and this latest misstep could prove to be the most costly yet.

IT outsourcing buyer’s market creates promise and challenge

IT leaders are using their leverage to ink more flexible u2014 and cheaper u2014 contracts with service providers. But there is a catch.

U.S. CIO tells IT leaders to trust the cloud

Tony Scott, U.S. federal government CIO, says big cloud providers are just as secure as today's largest financial institutions and advises his fellow IT leaders to embrace cloud sooner than later.

IBM brings Watson’s cognitive computing to sports

Under a trio of new partnerships, IBM Watson will power apps that will help prevent concussions, change the nature of training in golf and transform the game-day experience of Pittsburgh Penguins fans.

Concurrent improves big data application performance management

The data application infrastructure specialist has released Driven 2.0, which adds support for Apache Spark and redesigned application analytics as well as custom views to the big data application performance management solution.

AtScale looks to easily add BI on Hadoop

AtScale Intelligence Platform 3.0 aims to give business users the capability to interactively query Hadoop data without the need for extensive preprocessing or movement off the cluster.

4K Retina iMac reviews: Is it worth buying?

Is the new 21-inch 4K Retina iMac from Apple worth buying? Find out what the critics are saying about it before you buy one

Teradata gears up for Internet of Things analytics

Teradata has introduced two new software capabilities intended to help customers operationalize Internet of Things (IoT) data.

Why Uganda is an up-and-coming IT outsourcing option

Strong English language capabilities, low costs and attrition, and a stable and supportive government give Uganda potential as the latest offshore outsourcing alternative in Africa.

Microsoft sweetens deal for Windows 10 in the enterprise

Microsoft unveiled plans today to introduce incentive programs for companies looking to adopt the Windows 10 Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book. The improved Surface Enterprise Initiative and Trade-In program is designed to make it easier to upgrade to W

LinkedIn Groups gets (mediocre) makeover, new iOS app

The redesigned LinkedIn Groups interface and new iOS app aim to bolster the service, but bringing order to the chaos of message boards is no small task and many early users aren't impressed.

CIOs eye Dell-EMC merger with cautious optimism

CIOs have mixed views of the blockbuster merger between Dell and EMC, two incumbent vendors struggling to boost market share in a world that is increasingly moving toward cloud services and mobile devices.

SAP unveils SaaS analytics platform

SAP Cloud for Analytics aims to redefine analytics by combining business intelligence, planning and predictive analytics into a SaaS offering built on the SAP HANA Cloud Platform.

A ‘cyber Pearl Harbor’ could mean new security mandates

Lawmaker warns that lack of cybersecurity standards in government and private sector is u2018of great concern.u2019 New regulations could rankle the tech industry.