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Windows is under new management after Microsoft AI reshuffle

Computerworld Vertical IT

Microsoft is reuniting management of its Windows operating system and its Surface devices, as the leader of its Windows and Web Experiences team has quit his current role and may leave the company. To read this article in full, please click here

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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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Mesosphere Partners with Typesafe on Spark

Data Center Knowledge

Partnership provides support for an instance of Spark that can be deployed on top of the Mesosphere Data Center Operating System (DCOS) running in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Read More.

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

GeekWire

David was previously a senior data scientist with Amazon Web Services, while Connor, FarmHQ’s chief technology officer, worked in science and technology roles. FarmHQ Photo) The tech: Smaller farms have historically irrigated using labor-intensive, manually operated systems.

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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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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,

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Amazon details cause of AWS outage that hobbled thousands of online sites and services

GeekWire

A “relatively small addition of capacity” to the Amazon Kinesis real-time data processing service triggered a widespread Amazon Web Services outage last week, the company said in a detailed technical analysis over the weekend.