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Microsoft powers up its first U.K. data center regions
Microsoft customers based in the U.K. can now access local data center facilities for the first time, after the cloud giant announced the opening of new hosting locations for Azure and Office 365 in London, Cardiff and Durham. Dynamics CRM Online will also be hosted in the U.K., beginning early next year. Previously, Microsoft’s U.K. ...
ScyllaDB revamps NoSQL database in 1.3 release
ScyllaDB has released into general availability a major update to its popular NoSQL database of the same name. Announced at the first annual “Scylla Summit” at the Hilton San Jose yesterday, the company boldly proclaimed ScyllaDB 1.3 to be “the world’s fastest NoSQL database, delivering superior performance, high availability, horizontal scalability and low latency that organizations ...
Twitter board to discuss possible sale as troubles mount
Twitter, Inc.’s economic struggles are one of the worst-kept secrets in tech, with the company posting several successive losing quarters in a row, and its user adoption stagnating. While Twitter has long help up independence as a key part of its ethos, it seems to be edging closer to an acquisition as the only solution ...
Dell reports flat Q2 a day before it closes on EMC merger
Just one day before Dell Technologies Inc. finally completes its takeover of EMC Corp., the company issued second-quarter results for its fiscal 2017. The company reported almost-flat revenues of $13.1 billion in the three months up to July 29, up just 1 percent from a year ago. Operating income was $63 million, a big improvement ...
Oracle acquires LogFire for its cloud-based warehouse management capabilities
Oracle quietly announced yesterday that it’s acquiring LogFire Inc., an Atlanta, GA-based startup that provides cloud-based warehouse management applications aimed at boosting supply chain efficiency. LogFire, which counts more than 40 enterprise customers including Sears Brands LLC, The Glad Products Co., and Ryder System Inc., says it will not be shutting up shop, at least for ...
VMware adds data-at-rest encryption to VSAN beta
VMware Inc. is looking for beta testers of the latest version of its virtual storage area network (VSAN). In a blog post, VMware’s chief technologist for Storage & Availability Duncan Epping announced that the company is “looking for feedback” on three key new features in VSAN, which are: “Software data-at-rest encryption”; “Nested Fault Domains” (Fds) ...
SoftBank seals the deal in $31.4bn ARM acquisition
Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp. raised a few eyebrows last July when it announced it was acquiring British chip designer ARM Holdings Plc for $31.4 billion, the biggest-ever acquisition of a European tech firm. Now, less than two months later, that deal has been done and dusted. SoftBank revealed that it received all of the necessary ...
Microsoft unseats Salesforce at the top of the SaaS market
Microsoft has earned itself a reputation for being somewhat late to the party when new technologies burst onto the scene, but thanks to to its monumental resources, it nearly always grabs a piece of the pie for itself if it wants to. That was the case with cloud services, where many of Microsoft’s offerings came ...
OpenOffice on life support, could be retired due to lack of developers
OpenOffice, the once-popular open-source alternative to Microsoft’s Office suite, is effectively on life support, and could be shut down altogether due to a lack of developers willing to update it. The revelation was made by Dennis Hamilton, vice president of Apache OpenOffice, a volunteer position that reports to its governing body the Apache Software Foundation’s ...
Microsoft launches Windows as a Service subscription plan
Microsoft is making Windows 10 available on a monthly subscription for enterprise users with the launch of Windows as a Service via its Cloud Solution Provider network. What it means is that businesses will be able to subscribe to the Windows 10 Enterprise E3 version at a cost of $7 per user, per month. “Windows ...