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Microsoft claims Windows 7 no longer ‘fit’ for business
Microsoft Corp.’s German subsidiary has said that the Windows 7 personal computer operating software is no longer “fit” for business users, in what looks like another effort to push companies to upgrade to Windows 10. A translated version of Microsoft Germany’s post says that Windows 7 is no longer able to “keep up with the ...
FTC slaps Qualcomm with antitrust lawsuit, alleging it forced Apple to use its chips
Mobile chip maker Qualcomm Technologies Inc. is being sued by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission for violating laws on fair competition. The FTC on Tuesday filed a three-page complaint against Qualcomm, accusing it of strong-arming smartphone manufacturers, including Apple Inc., into agreeing to unfair licensing deals through the abuse of its patents. Qualcomm saw its share ...
Eyeing virtual reality, Zoom lands massive $100M Series D funding round
Zoom Video Communications Inc., the Santa Clara, California-based startup that’s bidding to disrupt the online video communications industry, has just landed $100 million in new funding. The Series D funding round brings its total funding to $145.5 million and puts its valuation over the $1 billion mark. The round was led by Sequoia Capital Operations LLC, ...
With lasers, security chips, encryption galore, Google sends a message: Don’t even try to hack us
Google Inc. has just published a white paper that details how it secures the data centers for its public cloud services and internal operations, sending a clear message: Don’t even think about trying to hack us. In order to physically infiltrate one of Google’s facilities, one will need to contend with security cameras, laser intrusion ...
Spending on cloud IT infrastructure rises 8.1 percent in third quarter
Cloud IT infrastructure revenues are on the rise, with sales from servers, storage and Ethernet switches growing by 8.1 percent in the third quarter of 2016 from a year ago as sales of most traditional hardware plummeted. In International Data Corp.’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker, the analyst firm said that vendor revenues from sales ...
Hortonworks hires Raj Verma as its new president and sales chief
Hortonworks Inc. is refreshing its sales team with the appointment of industry veteran Rajnish Verma as its new president and chief operating officer. The new president, who was previously COO of enterprise software company TIBCO Software Inc., will be tasked with advancing Hortonworks’ global sales strategy and execution, and will oversee sales, sales engineering, channel, ...
Concerned about security, Commerce Department urges creation of IoT strategy
The United States government needs to formulate a national strategy for the Internet of Things to guide global standards and determine the best use of radio spectrum and other infrastructure assets. That’s the chief finding of a new report from the Commerce Department published Jan. 12. The report by Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration notes that ...
IBM announces all-flash storage arrays for cloud, machine learning jobs
IBM Corp. has updated its storage array line up with all-flash versions that offer increased capacities and support for cognitive and other demanding workloads. IBM announced the original DS8880 storage arrays last year, with a choice of three systems, each of which now has an all-flash variant. The company said in a release the new ...
The Trump effect: Political uncertainty trims Gartner’s 2017 IT spending forecast
Gartner Inc. is blaming political uncertainty for a rather modest forecast of 2.7 percent growth in global information technology spending this year. The research firm’s latest Worldwide IT Spending Forecast, which predicts spending of $3.46 trillion in 2017, says the growth will be driven by cloud infrastructure spending and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and ...
Arcadia Data brings visual analytics to Cloudera Enterprise
Arcadia Data Inc. is making it easier for users to extract business insights from Hadoop and other big data platforms in a new team-up Cloudera Inc. The company said Wednesday that it’s integrating its Arcadia Enterprise visual analytics software with Cloudera Enterprise to create what it calls a real-time, Hadoop-native analytics platform. The idea here is to simplify ...