7 Biggest Stories of the Week, Dec. 1-5
Another week, another awesome cadre of news. Here are the seven biggest stories to grace our HTML for the week ending Dec. 5.
December 5, 2014
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Another week, another awesome cadre of news. Here are the seven biggest stories to grace our HTML for the week ending Dec. 5.
Canonical still hasn’t finished “converging” Ubuntu Linux across PCs, servers, phones and tablets, but it’s now closer than ever with a new development release of Ubuntu Touch, which partners Meizu and Bq are using to build the open source mobile devices that should appear in the new year.
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Once upon a time—specifically, until a few months ago—Docker seemed to be the only serious open source container-virtualization solution in town. But now alternatives are cropping up all over the place, with the announcement this week of Rocket from CoreOS only the latest. Have the Containerization Wars begun?
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Microsoft (MSFT) confirmed Dec. 1 what the eagle eyes noticed late last week—that it has bought Acompli, a highly regarded, San Francisco-based, startup email developer.
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BlackBerry (BBRY) is going head-to-head against Apple (AAPL) this holiday season with a new promotion offering iPhone owners cash to trade in their smartphone in exchange for a new Passport unit.
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Cloud and hybrid backup and recovery specialist Carbonite (CARB) has named Mohamad Ali, former Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) chief strategist, as its new president and chief executive, culminating a search begun last February to replace founder David Friend.
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NetApp (NTAP) and VMware (VMW) have unveiled the forthcoming NetApp Integrated EVO: RAIL Solution, a new infrastructure solution that combines NetApp’s ONTAP data management with EVO: RAIL.
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Okay, so it may not be a barn-burner, but it’s useful information all the same: The VAR Guy’s Top Channel Conferences and Technology Events for 2015 list is now available. Check it out.
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Okay, so it may not be a barn-burner, but it’s useful information all the same: The VAR Guy’s Top Channel Conferences and Technology Events for 2015 list is now available. Check it out.
Read the story here.
Another week, another awesome cadre of news. Here are the seven biggest stories to grace our HTML for the week ending Dec. 5.
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