Microsoft's First Azure Hosted Service Is Powered By Linux

Canonical, through John Zannos, VP Cloud Alliances, has proudly announced that the first ever Microsoft Azure hosted service will be powered by Ubuntu Linux. This piece of news comes from the Strata + Hadoop World Conference, which takes place this week in California. The fact of the matter is that the news came from Microsoft who announced the preview of Azure HDInsight (an Apache Hadoop-based hosted service) on Ubuntu clusters yesterday at the said event. This is definitely great news for Canonical, as their operating system is getting recognized for being extremely reliable when handling Big Data. Ubuntu is now the leading cloud and scale-out Linux-based operating system.

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Tech Time Warp of the Week: Return to 1974, When a Computer Ordered a Pizza for the First Time

Tech Time Warp of the Week: Return to 1974, When a Computer Ordered a Pizza for the First Time

Watch John Sherman use a voice synthesizer to place the first computer-assisted pizza delivery order in history.

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