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Report: Smartphone maker ZTE to ax 3,000 staff ahead of US exports ban
Chinese telecommunications equipment and systems company ZTE Corp. is reportedly preparing to lay off about 3,000 of its employees, including a fifth of its smartphone division workforce, according to a report Friday. Citing anonymous sources with knowledge of the plans, Reuters said ZTE will cut 5 percent of its 60,000-person global workforce in order to “streamline ...
Cloud storage firm Bitcasa bites the dust as it shuts down all services
Cloud storage operator Bitcasa Inc. has bailed out of the game for good, according to a blog post by ex-Chief Executive Officer Brian Taptich. But Taptich’s final message that the company is “no more” is nonetheless somewhat cryptic, as he says “this is not bad news.” He claims that the company has become “a part of something ...
Necessary evil no more, customer service emerges as a key profit driver
Sales has long been the biggest priority for many organizations, while customer service took a backseat, treated as a necessary evil and given limited resources. But a new report from Salesforce.com Inc.’s research division suggests that mindset is changing, as companies realize that increased investments in customer service, aided by new technologies, can help to boost their ...
Microsoft’s SQL Server named best database software in 2016
Microsoft Corp.’s SQL Server has landed Solid IT GmbH’s database management software of the year award for 2016, beating out Oracle Corp.’s MySQL and the open-source PostgreSQL, which finished second and third, respectively. DB-Engines, which is owned by Solid IT, said Microsoft won the award despite finishing only third in the overall popularity stakes. Oracle’s ...
Skills shortage holds back agile software development, survey finds
Fragmented testing processes and a lack of automation skills are hampering enterprises’ efforts to speed up the deployment of new software, according to a new survey on software testing released this week. The report, published by test management specialist Zephyr Inc. on Thursday, notes that continuous software delivery is a growing requirement among enterprises. It ...
Cloud computing revenues grow 25% to hit $148 billion in 2016
Spending on cloud computing services overtook that of private cloud hardware and software for the first time in 2016, according to a report released Wednesday by Synergy Research Group. The research also revealed that cloud operator and vendor revenues for the year ending Sept. 2016 hit $148 billion, representing revenue growth of just over 25 ...
Samsung sees Q4 profits rise 50% as it shakes off Galaxy Note 7 fiasco
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. revealed on Friday that its fourth-quarter profits for 2016 jumped by 50 percent to the highest level in over three years, in what looks likely to be a rapid recovery from its Galaxy Note 7 recall fiasco. The increase in profits was in line with analysts’ expectations of big gains, which ...
Fugue lands $41M Series D round to push cloud management
Cloud infrastructure management company Fugue Inc. has just closed on a juicy $41 million Series D funding round, bringing its total funding to more than $75 million. The round was led by New Enterprise Associates, with participation from previous investor Maryland Venture Fund and a new investor, Future Fund, the sovereign wealth fund of Australia. ...
Amazon Web Services claims 16,000 database migrations to its cloud since March
Amazon Web Services has seen more than 16,000 migrations of databases off private data centers since the launch of its migration service last March. That’s according to a tweet from AWS Chief Executive Andy Jassy about the company’s Database Migration Service. Of those migrations, Jassy reckons more than 2,000 have taken place since the end of ...
Red Hat adds hybrid cloud management features in new CloudForms
Red Hat Inc. has updated its hybrid cloud management platform CloudForms to provide enhanced capabilities for users of Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform, as well as Red Hat’s OpenStack platform. CloudForms is software that enables organizations to manage multiple cloud deployments, including both private and public clouds and software container-based platforms. The platform allows ...