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Report: CIOs are the driving force behind enterprise cloud adoption
Chief Information Officers (CIOs) have such powerful influence that they’re the key driver in most enterprise migrations to the cloud, a new study from Unisys Corp. has found. Unisys quizzed more than 200 U.S.-based IT and business executives for its study, and found that 72 percent said the CIO is the primary driver of their ...
Windows 10 Anniversary Update starts rolling out
Microsoft yesterday began rolling out its much anticipated Windows 10 Anniversary update. The company plans to roll out the update in phases, starting with newer PCs first, although those who don’t want to wait can grab it from Microsoft’s servers now. “You don’t have to do anything to get the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, it ...
Mesosphere launches “Container 2.0” initiative
Mesosphere Inc., pioneer of the data center operating system approach to container orchestration, yesterday unveiled plans to kickstart what it calls the “Container 2.0” movement. The company has just struck alliances with a trio of enterprise Big Data vendors in order to take distributed app technology to the next level. On Monday, Mesosphere announced partnerships ...
Salesforce moves quick to snap up productivity app Quip
Salesforce.com, Inc. has been expanding beyond its core CRM business for some time, and yesterday took another step in that direction with the acquisition of cloud-based word processing app Quip. The deal was priced at $582 million, according to a filing made with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday. Quip is a productivity ...
HPE cloud boss Bill Hilf departs the company
Just hours after rumors emerged of private equity firms circling Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE), the tech giant has announced the departure of three key executives, including the heads of its cloud and storage businesses. Bill Hilf, whose official title was senior vice president and general manager of HP Cloud, is stepping aside to “pursue other opportunities,” the ...
Windows 10 Anniversary Update prevents Pro edition users from disabling Microsoft’s ads
Microsoft is making some controversial changes to its Group Policy editor in its forthcoming Windows 10 Anniversary Update, which will mean that Windows 10 Pro edition users will no longer have the ability to disable some of the operating system’s more intrusive “features”. The Group Policy editor is an admin tool that allows Windows settings ...
AWS leads the cloud, but Google, IBM and Microsoft are all catching up
Amazon Web Services (AWS) continues to lead the field in cloud infrastructure services, but rivals including Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and IBM Softlayer are all catching up, according to analysis from Canalys. According to the research house’s latest figures, 30.4 percent of all cloud infrastructure spending in Q2 2016 went to AWS. Canalys said ...
Private equity firms eye HPE’s software business for acquisition
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) is said to be the subject of multiple acquisition talks. According to two separate reports quoting unnamed sources, HPE is the subject of a proposed takeover by several private equity groups, and is also considering the sale of some of its software assets, including Autonomy and Vertica. If either report ...
Chimera ransomware keys leaked by rival gang as cyber-turf wars heat up
The ransomware business has gotten so profitable and so competitive that rival gangs are now sabotaging each other in a bid to secure more victims for themselves. As revealed this week, the creators of the Mischa and Petya ransomware viruses have turned on the criminal gang behind the better-known and more widely-distributed Chimera ransomware, stealing its code ...
HERE Maps rebrands as HERE WeGo, adds new route planning features
HERE Maps, considered by many to be the only serious rival to Google Maps, will no longer be known as “Maps” after deciding to rebrand itself. As of today, the app will now be known as HERE WeGo. The company said the rebranding reflects its greater emphasis on directions and route planning, with an emphasis ...