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IBM, Intel, Microsoft object to Chinese demands for their source code
IBM Corp., Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. have all filed objections with the Chinese government after it requested they hand over the source code for some of their most important software products. The objection comes after China passed a tough new cybersecurity law last month that requires foreign technology companies doing business in the country ...
Google launches new security service for open-source software
Google Inc. is launching a new service aimed at continuously testing open-source software projects for security vulnerabilities. The new service is called OSS-Fuzz, and is currently available in beta for a select number of open-source projects, which have either been deemed critical to global information technology infrastructure or have a very large user base. Google says ...
Workday shares plunge as it warns large contracts are delayed
Enterprise software vendor Workday Inc. reported solid third-quarter earnings after the bell on Thursday, but warned that a number of proposed deals with large enterprise customers had been delayed because of “economic and political uncertainty.” As a result, the maker of human relations, payroll and other business software in the cloud saw shares plunge by ...
MapR’s new Ecosystem Pack for developers enables Big Data streaming
MapR Technologies Inc. Thursday touted new Big Data streaming capabilities in its latest Ecosystem Pack, which is designed to keep developers up to date with the components of its Converged Data Platform. MapR’s Ecosystem Pack 2.0 is a solution for developers who want to upgrade various components in the company’s open-source ecosystem stack. Updated quarterly, it ...
Red Hat survey finds traditional enterprises struggle with digital transformation
Traditional enterprises, meaning companies which have been established for some years and are typically using older information technology, are struggling to keep up with their “digital native” counterparts, according to a new survey from Bain & Co. and Red Hat Inc. The survey on the state of digital transformation, “For Traditional Enterprises, the Path to ...
Gartner: Server market still down in the dumps as revenues, shipments fall
The global computer server market continues to be dogged by a combination of low spending, easy access to virtual machines, and the need for reinvigorated value propositions, Gartner Inc. said in its latest report. Global server revenues tumbled by 5.8 percent in the third quarter of 2016 compared to one year ago, while shipments also ...
SUSE acquires HPE’s Cloud Foundry and OpenStack assets
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. has announced that it’s selling the bulk of its OpenStack and Cloud Foundry assets to Linux provider SUSE for an undisclosed sum. The deal will also see SUSE acquire some of HPE’s employees when it closes in the first quarter of 2017. The deal is complicated by the fact that SUSE’s ...
AWS debuts pay-as-you-go interactive query service for Amazon S3
Amazon Web Services Wednesday announced the availability of its new Amazon Athena tool. The new service enables serverless queries of massive amounts of data stored in Amazon’s Simple Storage Service, without needing to set up data warehouses or spin up Hadoop clusters first. AWS said the idea behind Amazon Athena is that it can simplify ...
Datapipe launches Trebuchet to simplify DevOps
Cloud services company Datapipe Inc. has launched a new beta solution called Trebuchet that’s designed for organizations that want to apply automation and grow into a DevOps lifecycle. Datapipe’s pitch is that while DevOps, a method of creating software faster inside information technology organizations, is becoming increasingly popular, very few companies actually possess the knowledge ...
American Airlines lands on IBM’s cloud
American Airlines Group Inc. is teaming up with IBM Cloud in a deal that will see the airline move some enterprise applications to Big Blue’s cloud computing platform. The two companies have a relationship that stretches back more than 50 years,to IBM’s development of American Airlines’ original, centralized electronic reservation and ticketing system, which went ...