The outcome of the annual H-1B visa lottery is immigration’s Groundhog Day. It’s the same result year after year, as the large outsourcing firms continue to lead all others in getting H-1B visas. But this year may be different, because of President Donald Trump. [ Join the discussion at Computerworld’s H-1B & IT Outsourcing group…
Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2017 software development platform will be officially released on March 7, the company said on Thursday. Currently a release candidate and previously called Visual Studio 15, the upgrade focuses on code navigation and fixes, refactoring, IntelliSense code editing, and debugging. For teams and devops, it offers real-time features like architectural dependency validation…
No Intel chip is as expensive as the new Xeon E7-8894 v4 server processor. The US$8,898 Xeon chip has massive horsepower with 24 cores, 60MB of cache and a maximum clock frequency of 3.4GHz. Intel said this is the company’s fastest server chip, breaking enterprise application speed records. The company’s next expensive chip after the…
One of the core issues that has inhibited the adoption of container technologies, like Docker, is the lack of support for persistent storage required for stateful applications and microservices, says Jack Norris, senior vice president, Data and Applications, MapR Technologies. [ Related: 5 things containers need to win the enterprise ] Container technology has come…
Apple’s iCloud appears to have been holding on to users’ deleted internet browsing histories, including records over a year old. Moscow-based forensics firm Elcomsoft noticed it was able to pull supposedly deleted Safari browser histories from iCloud accounts, such as the date and time the site was visited and when the record was deleted. “In…