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GoDaddy plans to close its cloud computing business, telling its SMB customers it will try to integrate the business into other services. GoDaddy CIO Auguste Goldman issued an email outlining the company's plans: "We are focused on SMBs and SMBs don't use our Cloud Server product the way we are offering it now," Goldman wrote in the email that GoDaddy provided to CRN Tuesday. "So, in the weeks ahead, it won't be a stand-alone product in and of itself. However, we plan to continue developing cloud technology into our other hosted products. "We will continue to support existing Cloud Server customers in a variety of ways," Goldman added.
The PC industry hasn't seen an updated memory spec in a while, and it was long past due. That upgrade came last week, as the memory standards group JEDEC revealed that it had published a spec for DDR4 SDRAM, defining "features, functionalities, AC and DC characteristics, packages and ball/signal assignments," that builds on the DDR3 spec, first published in 2007. The DDR4 spec applies to SDRAM devices from 2 GB through 16 GB for x4, x8 and x16 buses. Here's a look at some of the particulars.
The group is working toward a single architecture spec for chips that run in heterogeneous environments, which leverage both compute and graphics.Qualcomm is the latest member of the Heterogeneous System Architecture Foundation, joining the likes of Advanced Micro Devices, ARM and Samsung Electronics in creating a single architecture spec for chips that leverage both compute and graphics capabilities. Other members of the foundation, which was announced in June, include Texas Instruments, Imagination Technologies and MediaTek.
Federal regulators are moving closer to suing Google over allegations that the company has abused its dominance of Internet search to stifle competition and drive up online advertising prices, news reports said Friday.Several news outlets reported that staff members at the Federal Trade Commission are preparing to recommend that the agency file an antitrust lawsuit against the search giant. A majority of the five FTC commissioners would have to approve a suit before legal action could proceed.
Hewlett-Packard's Fort Collins, Colo., facility was built in the mid-'70s when David Packard and Bill Hewlett, both being enthusiastic outdoorsmen, decided they wanted to build a company plant near: a) an excellent engineering school (Colorado State University); and b) one of their favorite hunting, fishing, skiing and vacation places, the Rocky Mountains. It has since morphed into the workstation headquarters for the company and thus, the world. HP leads the mobile workstation market worldwide with 41.8 percent share and leads the combined workstation category with 46.2 percent share, according to the Q2'12 IDC Worldwide Workstation Tracker released in August.At the beginning of the 21st century, four major players manufactured high-end computer workstations: Silicon Graphics, Sun, IBM and HP. Today, HP is the only surviving and thriving workstation vendor of those four. This slide show illustrates a tour of the HP facility taken on Oct. 11, 2012.
Are you looking to possibly switch jobs as 2012 winds down and we enter 2013? Or, are you looking to increase your salary by adding a skill to your resume? Well, CyberCoders has a bead on the 10 hottest tech skills for the coming year. CyberCoders is a worldwide recruiting firm that uses technology and experienced recruiters in its passionate pursuit to match great people with great companies.
With Halloween just around the corner, a real-life horror story is all around us, just waiting to be unleashed. We’re referring to our widespread dependence on COBOL, one of our oldest programming languages. Because it was designed to ensure longevity for enterprise applications, COBOL still runs some of the world's most basic and critical applications, but it has been increasingly dismissed as an over-the-hill programming language that today's developers don't want to work with. That presents the possibility that a severe shortage of COBOL programmers could contribute to a doomsday scenario in which many of the critical services we depend on are unavailable. It's the specter of such a disaster that motivated software-maker Micro Focus to develop a visual COBOL tool that lets companies run their COBOL applications on .Net, Java Virtual Machine and the cloud. "COBOL is the most prominent and reliable programming language, designed for today's mission-critical business applications," said Ed Airey, Micro Focus' product manager for COBOL. Here's a look at 12 applications that depend on COBOL—and what might happen in a widespread COBOL crash.
Given what Americans have endured over the last several years, it's safe to say that any news that isn't particularly bad is actually pretty good. Which is probably the best way to interpret the latest IT jobs availability report from Dice.com, an IT employment career site. The overall number of tech positions has inched up ever so slightly from a year ago, which is obviously better than a decline
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