It’s nice how they turn it around at the end. Here’s why you should expect airline disruptions to get worse

They say it’s an anomaly, high dollar and all that. Gartner Says Worldwide PC Shipments Declined 9.5 Percent in Second Quarter of 2015

“Holy platform power, Batman, we just invented PaaS!” TechReckoning Dispatch, Vol. 2, No. 9. July 8, 2015

‘Unlocked Appliances come start at six compute nodes and 12 TBs of usable storage and go all the way to 24 compute nodes and 24 TBs of usable storage. Put two together and Mirantis says you’ll be able to run “over 1500 virtual machines and 48 TBs of usable storage.”’ Mirantis climbs aboard converged infrastructure bandwagon

GigaOm Research to relaunch, using the same federation model and such. Rebooting Gigaom Research

You have to read it a few times, but I think dude just pooped on OpenStack: “At some point in the future, it would be good to see other open-source frameworks take a run at OpenStack, since today I feel like they [OpenStack] are the only game in town,” Uretsky said. “We come from the open-source world and would like to be able to contribute a project that actually delivers real value.

Seems like the Nokia acquisition was a bad idea? “As a result of the cuts, Microsoft said it will record an impairment charge of approximately $7.6 billion related to assets associated with the acquisition of the Nokia business in addition to a restructuring charge of approximately $750 million to $850 million.” Microsoft Targets Hardware Business With 7,800 Job Cuts

Aggregation is the New Virtualization: How Microservices Are Taming Distributed Computing | Andreessen Horowitz Aggregation is the New Virtualization: How Microservices Are Taming Distributed Computing | Andreessen Horowitz

HP leads booming $6.3bn cloud infrastructure market HP leads booming $6.3bn cloud infrastructure market - IT News from V3.co.uk

Microservice Trade-Offs (Weekend Reading — The Developer Walk of Shame) Microservice Trade-Offs