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Nearly a decade after launching, Dropbox Inc. is finally introducing the ability for organizations to prevent employees from tying their accounts to unprotected personnel email addresses. The addition is part of a brand new feature set that aims to make its historically consumer-focused file …
Amazon shifts the cloud battleground to South Korea
It doesn’t take more than a passing glance at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) case studies page to understand the reasoning behind the latest addition to its global expansion course. Featured prominently at the top row is Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., one …
IBM wants to bring Dev and Ops together with new API matchmaker
Given the billions of dollars that IBM Corp. has spent on making its public cloud a more attractive place for developers to run their applications, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that it’s also taken an interest in the programming interfaces through …
Dropbox taps Vera to keep files secure even after they move off its platform
The rapid growth in the amount of data moving outside the corporate firewall represents only the start of CIOs’ security woes. The real problem emerges when a worker downloads sensitive documents from their cloud locker without permission or makes a folder accessible …
Nadella delivers another shocker as Microsoft embraces Red Hat in cloud alliance
Whatever doubts that still remained about Microsoft Corp.’s commitment to open-source software among the developer community until this morning have been banished by its announcement of a broad partnership with Red Hat Inc. to jointly promote their respective cloud offerings. That includes …
Pivotal Cloud Foundry gets .NET support as Microsoft ties deepen
The aftershocks from Microsoft Corp.’s decision to release its .NET development framework under an open-source license last year have finally reached Pivotal Inc., which added support for the project to its commercial Cloud Foundry distribution this week. The move expands the appeal …
Authentication unicorn Okta takes its single sign-on service beyond mobile
As business users continue to shift more and more of their work to mobile devices, Okta Inc. is taking an unexpected turn against the flow and extending its popular authentication service to the workstations that have dominated traditional office life. The new …
Former Apple CEO John Sculley’s firm swoops up the last remains of eBay Enterprise
It’s not everyday that news from the customer relationship management segment make such big headlines. Zeta Interactive Inc., the sales automation provider co-founded by former Apple Inc. chief executive John Sculley, has acquired eBay Inc.’s CRM platform in what marks the official …
MongoDB 3.2 gets an in-memory storage engine
For all its potential to improve query performance and reduce latency, in-memory processing has received relatively little attention in the database world beyond traditional relational systems like SAP SE’s HANA. But that is about to change. MongoDB Inc. officially joined the fray …
Dell reportedly eyeing 2016 IPO for EMC’s Pivotal
As EMC Corp. prepares to move off the stock exchange in order to join up with the privately-held Dell Inc. as part of the record-breaking $67 billion merger they announced last month, its fastest growing division appears to be headed in the opposite …