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Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe

CIO Business Intelligence

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union. OVH, along with fellow CISPE member Aruba.it

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Amazon puts Fire TV Cube to work, repurposes streaming device for desktop computing

GeekWire

Amazon WorkSpaces , the company’s virtual desktop service, just unveiled its first device for end users, a $195 product created by directly repurposing the hardware design for Amazon’s Fire TV Cube. Muneer Mirza, AWS general manager of End User Computing.

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Irrigation tech startup led by farming experts blossoms with revenue growth and new cash

GeekWire

The startup, based north of Seattle, has raised a $750,000 seed round and is now FarmHQ , which is also the name of its irrigation hardware and software platform. David was previously a senior data scientist with Amazon Web Services, while Connor, FarmHQ’s chief technology officer, worked in science and technology roles.

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Fortinet upgrades for better cloud, SD-WAN protection

Network World

Fortinet has rolled out a new version of its FortiOS operating system that gives customers the ability to manage security capabilities across their cloud assets and software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) environments. With FortiOS 5.6, With FortiOS 5.6,

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Top 8 IT certifications in demand today

CIO Business Intelligence

The CompTIA A+ 220-1002 exam covers installing and configuring operating systems, expanded security, software troubleshooting, and operational procedures. The CompTIA A+ 220-1001 exam covers mobile devices, networking technology, hardware, virtualization and cloud computing, and network troubleshooting.

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WiBotic raises $5.7M to boost wireless systems for charging up robots and drones

GeekWire

” WiBotic’s power management software can work with the hardware to optimize battery use for whole fleets of robots, without a human ever having to handle a plug. “He’s got a lot of expertise when it comes to hardware, software, management and sales and marketing,” Waters said.

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Cloud Technology: Beyond Data Storage

Galido

The cloud services are generally divided into the following three categories: Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Providing platforms over the Internet to develop, test and deliver software services to users makes it very easy for people who want to build and launch software applications quickly.

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