Infamous government hacker Edward Snowden believes open source is a fundamentally better way to use technology compared to proprietary technology that he believes disempowers users. Snowden was interviewed at the open source cloud computing project OpenStack Summit in Boston via video from a non-descript location and spoke about his personal use of open source technology.…
Drone-maker AeroVironment has developed a handheld quadcopter that it says can be carried by soldiers on the battlefield and quickly deployed to get an aerial look at a potentially hostile location. The drone, called Snipe Nano Quad, has retractable rotor arms so it can be carried in a compact form and unpacked when needed. It weighs…
Verizon this week said it would begin offering x86-based servers with OpenStack software aimed at customers looking to support all manner of advanced cloud, software defined networking and network functions virtualization-based enterprises. +More on Network World: Extreme offers glimpse of integrated Avaya, Brocade technology future+ According to Verizon, letting customers use a combination of off…
Microsoft won’t issue another Windows 10 “Long-term Servicing Branch” (LTSB) build until 2019, a company official said last week. “The next LTSB release is expected for 2019,” Nathan Mercer, senior product marketing manager, said in an “Ask me anything”-style Q&A last week. “Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB 2016 is the current LTSB release.” [ Related: Fix…
The financial sector may be one of the more cautious industries when it comes to adopting the cloud. But for HSBC the ability to analyse large volumes of information and access machine learning tools via APIs has served as a catalyst for its own cloud ambitions. Banks are, by their nature, data-intensive organisations, and HSBC…
For all of its administrative challenges in providing essential healthcare, the Department of Veterans Affairs has been recognized for its successes in delivering telemedicine to reach rural and remote patients who might live hours from the nearest VA facility. But it could do more. Officials from the VA recently made their way to Capitol Hill…
Stratasys is developing a cloud-service platform that comprises expandable, server rack-like modular 3D printer units configured under one software platform to work simultaneously to mass produce parts. The assembly line-style 3D printing platform will reside both in Stratasys’ own facilities as well as on the premises of business partners who can use the new Continuous…
If you’ve traveled at all, it’s likely you will have crossed paths with products from Amadeus IT Group — whether that’s the software that manages flight searches and hotel bookings or boarding a plane. Now the 30-year-old company has picked VMware to deliver a private OpenStack-based cloud, to support VMware vSphere workloads and as part…
As vendors withdraw their support for open source infrastructure platform OpenStack, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth has said this is a sign of a healthy, maturing project — but that the OpenStack community needs to have a frank conversation with itself about where it’s headed. Speaking with Computerworld UK, Shuttleworth says he is “excited about the…
German news publishers suing Google for copyright dues under a 2013 law may get more than they bargained for, with implications for readers and newspapers throughout the EU. Rather than rule in their favor, the Berlin court hearing their case has raised doubts about the validity of the very law they sought to enforce: It…