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This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. OWC releases SoftRAID Lite and Lite XT for Windows. GIGABYTE announced its support for the new NVIDA innovations. Diamanti announces support for Red Hat OpenShift. Komprise adds new capabilities for Azure. (more…)

Software giant Microsoft will let employees work from home permanently if they choose to, US media reported on Friday, becoming the latest employer to expand work-from-home provisions prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), who would know such things, 84% of organizations were running containers in production in 2019, up 15% from a year before. In fact, some would argue that the best technology is coming packaged in containers and if organizations don't adapt, they will be left behind. Yet many organizations are still intimidated by the concept of containers. While containers are commonplace for businesses "born in the cloud" or "cloud-native" applications, more traditional virtualization-first organizations may not be adapting fast enough.

With The Boys season 2 finale episode 8 out on Amazon Prime Video, we look at how the anti-superhero series fared in season 2, and why it’s a lot like the very thing it pokes fun at: the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Zoom has started offering the plan prices in rupees for the customers in India. With the new move, Zoom users in the country will be able to buy their preferred paid plans and add-ons for the video conferencing app in rupees.

Japan has no plans to issue central bank digital currencies right now but must deepen research on the possibility, a top government spokesman has said.

International Business Machines is splitting itself into two public companies, capping a years-long effort by the world's first big computing firm to diversify away from its legacy businesses to focus on high-margin cloud computing.

Pixar’s Soul is going straight to Disney+ Hotstar on Christmas. Disney has announced that the next Pixar movie — featuring the voices of Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey in the lead — will skip theatres and premiere directly on its streaming service Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar globally on December 25.

Zoom has introduced an external authentication feature to make virtual classrooms more secure. Students can be properly identified within the meeting using the name from the identity provider (IDP), and only authenticated students can be allowed in the session.

Amazon Prime Video has unveiled nine Indian films that were originally headed to theatres. That includes Coolie No. 1 (Christmas Day), Chhalaang (Diwali Eve), Durgavati (December 11), Maara (December 17), Middle Class Melodies (November 20), Bheema Sena Nalamaharaja (October 29), Manne Number 13 (November 19), Halal Love Story (October 15), and Soorarai Pottru (Octob...