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Salesforce.com heads to France with 100% green data center as part of European expansion
Salesforce.com Inc. has revealed plans to open a data center in France as part of an expansion plan that will see the launch of three European facilties by the end of 2015. The move comes as the growing number of enterprise workloads shifting to the public cloud forces CIOs to be more mindful of the legal ...
IBM drops new machines into Lenovo’s lap while bolstering own high-margin portfolio
IBM Corp. has pulled the curtains back on a new generation of System x machines in what is poised to be the last major refresh for the portfolio before it’s transferred to Lenovo Group Ltd. along with the rest of the enterprise stalwart’s x86 product lines as part of a $2.3 billion selloff announced in ...
Dell bids for enterprise mobile device management dollars
Dell Inc. is stepping up its efforts to diversify beyond data center equipment and consumer products into the higher margin software business with a landmark expansion of its enterprise mobility management (EMM) suite that introduces the ability to isolate work from personal data on employee-owned devices. The result of a collaboration with VoIP giant Vonage ...
VMware and Capgemini team up to help corporations cope with device profusion
VMware Inc. and Capgemini S.A. have entered a partnership to help large organizations manage the influx of employee-owned devices into the workplace in the wave called bring-your-own-everything (BYOx). The agreement between the virtualization giant and one of the largest global providers of IT consulting and outsourcing services extends their long-running partnership to yet another of the ...
The real scoop on VMware Integrated OpenStack | #CubeConversations
There has been no shortage of coverage on VMware Inc.’s recent decision to embrace OpenStack, the community-led project that threatens to displace its virtualization software as the leading management platform for private clouds, but little attention has been given to the strategic dynamics behind the gambit. Wikibon analyst Stu Miniman appeared recent episode of SiliconANGLE’s ...
Analytics bigwigs converge around Tableau in partnership bonanza
Red-hot data visualization vendor Tableau Software Inc. will attempt to position itself at the center of an ecosystem during its this seventh annual customer event in Seattle this week by showcasing an impressive lineup of partners that are building upon the company’s analytics platforms. Alteryx Inc., the top sponsor of the summit, hopes to steal the ...
Advertisers win in Facebook’s efforts to dethrone YouTube
Facebook Inc. appears to be positioning itself as a rival to YouTube with new functionality aimed at bringing the media viewing experience on the News Feed more up to par with that offered by Google Inc.’s dominant video sharing website. The social networking giant is in the process of rolling out a hit counter that ...
Fool me twice: Malware used in Target attack catches Home Depot off guard nearly a year later
The latest major cyberattack on a top U.S. retailer employed a variant of the malware that hackers used to break into the network of Target Corp. last December, according to influential security blogger Brian Krebs. The holiday season heist saw the assailants take off with sensitive personal information belonging to approximately 70 million customers of ...
The public cloud gets more secure with chip-level enforcement and real-time behavior scanning
IBM hopes to address CIOs’ persistent unease with the state of cloud security by adding a new layer of control for its infrastructure-as-a-service platform that enables organizations to enforce access policies down to the chip level. Dedicated servers from SoftLayer, the managed hosting company Big Blue absorbed in June, 2014 for approximately $2 billion, will now ...
How a 140-year-old utility biz went back to selling subscriptions – via the cloud
Ohio’s CBTS may not be a household name like Google or Amazon, but it boasts a much longer and extensive history than either. The firm traces its roots to local telephone kingpin Cincinnati Bell, which began operating all the way back in 1873. Come the corporate technology boom of the 1980s and 1990s, the company ...