While enterprise technology has always been somewhat a breed apart from consumer tech, this year we see that consumer tech will definitively set the agenda for businesses like never before …read more Source:: it-priorities
Month: May 2016
IT professionals are feeling less job stress, survey suggests
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•IT professionals’ job satisfaction levels have been on the rise in the past two years. Is the consumerization of IT behind this more positive vibe? …read more Source:: it-priorities
Twitter open-sources Heron for real-time stream analytics
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Heron, the real-time stream-processing system Twitter devised as a replacement for Apache Storm, is finally being open-sourced after powering Twitter for more than two years. Twitter explained in a …read more Source:: OpenSource
Microsoft, Facebook partner on new undersea cable across the Atlantic
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•The 6,600-kilometer submarine cable will be completed by October 2017 and will link the US east coast to Spain. …read more Source:: it-priorities
Use of unlicensed software sees small decrease in Brazil
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•Growth in the adoption of cloud tools has helped reduce piracy, says BSA study …read more Source:: it-priorities
Spark 2.0 prepares to catch fire
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•By Ian Pointer Apache Spark 2.0 is almost upon us. If you have an account on Databricks’ cloud offering, you can get access to a technical preview today; for the rest …read more Source:: OpenSource
Dropbox wants to speed up Python with Pyston 0.5
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•By Serdar Yegulalp After months of silence, the Pyston project — a Dropbox-sponsored initiative to create a high-performance, JIT-compiling Python runtime — has announced a new version. The bad news: Pyston 0.5 is …read more Source:: OpenSource
How to make installing the Windows 7 convenience rollup a little less painful
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•Microsoft’s rollup of security and non-security fixes for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 can be rather onerous to instal. Here are some tips for IT pros wrestling with …read more Source:: it-priorities
GPTW lists top tech workplaces in LatAm
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•Cisco gets the number one spot within multinationals in the region …read more Source:: it-priorities
IDG Contributor Network: Why are Chromebooks outselling Macs?
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•By Jim Lynch Why are Chromebooks outselling Macs? The recent news that Chromebooks have started to outsell Macs for the first time came as a shock to some people. Chromebooks clearly have …read more Source:: OpenSource