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Microsoft to offer three new ways to store big data on Azure

Azure to feature a data warehouse, a 'data lake,' and the ability to pool multiple databases

Amazon buys ClusterK, a firm that helps users buy cloud capacity cheap

ClusterK helps companies use AWS spot instances for mission-critical applications

Lawmakers criticize FBI’s request for encryption back doors

It's impossible to ensure that only good guys will be able to access them, lawmakers say

Microsoft woos Android, iOS devs with porting toolkit

At Build, Microsoft unveils plan that lets developers reuse Java, C++, and Objective-C code for Windows

Puppet Enterprise 3.8 adds Docker, AWS management

Puppet Enterprise 3.8 includes Docker and AWS management modules, as well as the first supported release of Razor for bare-metal management

Windows 10 updates force enterprises to shift eval tactics

Enterprises will have to rethink the way they evaluate Microsoft operating systems, since Windows 10 may never really be <i>done</i>.

Microsoft releases Visual Studio Code for Linux

In today's open source roundup: Microsoft offers .NET tool for Linux. Plus: SuperTuxKart gets a major upgrade. And play the Chocolate Doom game in Debian

Bill to rein in NSA phone data collection reintroduced

The USA Freedom Act aims to end the agency's bulk collection of U.S. telephone records

Salaries for STEM jobs in decline

PayScale's Q1 2015 Index shows wages for STEM jobs flat or in decline after almost a decade of growth

Fury rises at Disney over use of H-1B workers

Disney says it is restructuring its IT operations; displaced workers say they were asked to train their replacements flown in from India

IBM claims advance in effort to build reliable, large-scale quantum computer

IBM says it has made a breakthrough in multiple types of error correction for quantum computers

Twitter turns to Apple for help distributing its tweets

Tweets might begin appearing in Spotlight searches on Apple devices, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said

Microsoft preaches the gospel of universal apps at Build

The Build conference also will focus on Visual Studio 2015, Windows 10, and mobile app dev

Open source threatens to eat the database market

The database market has largely been impervious to open source pricing pressure. That may be about to change

Mitchell Hashimoto follows up Vagrant with Vault key encryption

Vault not only stores encryption keys and credentials, but generates them automatically for use in services and APIs

Is Linux Mint better than Ubuntu?

In today's open source roundup: Linux Mint versus Ubuntu. Plus: KDE releases Plasma 5.3. And screenshot tours of Debian 8 Cinnamon

Apache Parquet paves the way for better Hadoop data storage

Newly graduated from the Apache Incubator, the Parquet project allows column-stored data to be handled at high speed

Interop 2015: SDN reality-check, apps aplenty

Interop kicks off this week and will include a broad range of technology topics, from SDN to application delivery and development

Nginx anchors API management for microservices

Kong open source management layer uses Nginx to ease the pain of creating common management functions for microservices APIs

Mac sales climb 10 percent, but revenue again thumps iPad

iPad sales plummeted 23 percent in the first three months of 2015; Tim Cook says, 'It is what it is'

Microsoft posts second straight double-digit downturn in Windows OEM revenue

Can Redmond make enough from consumers in services to offset the decline in OS revenue?

Internet of things and Azure headline Microsoft Build

The Build developer conference will spotlight Microsoft's vision and architecture for connected devices and Azure

Dell ready to help enterprises move Jive content into Yammer

New migration tool aims to help enterprises simplify their social side

SAS enlarges its palette for big data analysis

SAS offers new tools for training, as well as for banking and network security

Controversial unified-Hadoop project bears first fruit

Hortonworks and Pivotal's Open Data Platform project yields its first tangible results, but they're unlikely to dispel controversy over ODP's mission

New Node.js coalition spotlights enterprises

EnterpriseJS Coalition to boost support for server-side JavaScript development in the enterprise

Debian 8 released

In today's open source roundup: Debian 8 Jesse has been released. Plus: Did open source principles matter when Linux was created? And can you play games on a Chromebox computer?

Police break up cybergang that stole over $15 million from banks

4 ways Microsoft will lure developers deeper into Azure

Here's how Microsoft's Azure moves are useful for — and appealing to — developers

Video: Behind the scenes of the rescue of HealthCare.gov

A member of the beleaguered website's rescue team gives all the gory details of its operation

New Node.js coalition spotlights enterprises

PayPal and Intuit throw support behind EnterpriseJS Coalition, which will host events and produce content about JavaScript in business environments

Microsoft hints at potential C# 7 features

Microsoft posts lists of features under consideration on GitHub, but warns they aren't 'descriptions of the final outcome'

Amazon throws down the gauntlet with detailed AWS earnings

By breaking out details about sales and expenses of its cloud business, Amazon is daring other cloud kingpins to do the same

Ubuntu 15.04 reviews

In today's open source roundup: Reviews of Ubuntu 15.04. Plus: Hidden options in Ubuntu 15.04. And Kubuntu 15.04 has been released

With ransomware on the rise, cryptographers take it personally

The security industry is not doing enough and it's going to get worse, cryptographers said

Microsoft results get a lift from Office 365 and Azure

Cloud services performed well, but Windows and Office software suffered

Amazon says its cloud is ‘a $5 billion business’

AWS generated $1.57 billion for Amazon in the first three months of 2015, nearly 7 percent of Amazon's total revenue

Red Hat broadens programming language support

RHEL can now support multiple versions of a single programming language, such as Python

Enterprises still miss the real point of open source

Enterprises continue to fumble open source, largely because they misunderstand its value

Copyright act could make it illegal to repair your own car

Software is becoming integrated into everything we buy, but DCMA throws basic principles of ownership into question

No Linux, no Docker, no cloud OS? Think again

OSv, a from-scratch OS for running applications at scale and with high performance, blazes a trail to the cloud that doesn't use Linux or Docker-style containers

Apple’s U.S. facilities now get 100% of their power from renewables

Company has been building new solar power plants around the U.S. and in China

Google launches Project Fi, its combo cellular and Wi-Fi network

Service will start for Nexus 6 smartphones under invitation-only early access program

Privacy concerns remain as U.S. House approves cyber threat sharing bill

The legislation would continue to allow customer information to be passed to the NSA, privacy advocates said

How Intel could prolong Moore’s Law with new materials, transistors

Intel could start using exotic materials and a new transistor structure in upcoming chips to keep Moore's Law going

Video: Brendan Eich celebrates the rise of JavaScript compilers

In his Fluent Conference keynote, the JavaScript creator outlines where the language is headed and the role compilers have played in its growth

Box Developer Edition woos both enterprises and startups

Box Developer Edition simplifies user provisioning and authentication for Box apps, for scrappy startups and established enterprises alike

Coming soon: PHP 7 — and it’s a scorcher

The upcoming version of the server-side scripting language has provided 100-percent-plus performance improvements in full-stack applications

Intel’s Compute Stick goes on sale for $149 with Windows 8.1

A Compute Stick with Ubuntu Linux will go on sale this summer for $110

Mesos adds Kubernetes, containers to data center management system

Mesosphere's DCOS, for managing Linux systems and applications at scale, takes on container-management duties, thanks to Google's Kubernetes