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Yahoo to retain its stake in Alibaba, spin-off core businesses instead
Following on from its marathon boardroom meeting last week, Yahoo! Inc. has announced it’s no longer looking to spin off its $31 billion stake in the Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Limited. Instead, the company is to adopt an alternative plan aimed at spinning off its core Internet businesses, as well as its stake ...
Sizing up public cloud: Can Google’s Big Data focus win over the enterprise?
One of a series of articles analyzing the strategies the largest public cloud vendors are using to court enterprise customers. Other installments look at Amazon Web Services, IBM and Oracle. Google is regularly cited by analysts as one of the “big three” infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) leaders in the cloud alongside Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, ...
Intel open-sources its Snap cloud visibility tool on GitHub
Back in July, Intel launched its “Cloud for All” initiative aimed at foster inggreater enterprise adoption of public, private and hybrid clouds. Building on that effort, Intel last week said its open-sourcing a new tool called “Snap” that’s designed to help organizations gain better visibility into their cloud infrastructure. In a press briefing announcing the news, Intel ...
There’s a deathly silence at hyper-converged software startup Springpath
Cisco Systems Ltd. is being linked to the potential acquisition of hyper-converged software storage upstart Springpath Inc., which has recently stopped answering the phone, dumped its PR agency AND canceled a number of press events. The Register was the first to notice that something’s going down at Springpath, however it was unable to say exactly ...
Amazon muscles in on Azure with AWS Active Directory Services
Amazon Web Services is baiting some of Microsoft’s legacy customers with a new offering that allows them to move applications like SQL Server, Sharepoint and custom apps built with .NET onto its cloud. Called the AWS Directory Service for Active Directory, it should prove tempting to businesses that are looking to switch from on-premises deployments ...
Gartner says server slump is over as global revenues rise in Q3
Gartner Inc. has some encouraging news for all those legacy vendors out there, posting an optimistic report on the state of the global server market. According to the market watcher, the infamous eleven consecutive quarters of declining sales in the server market are history, with revenues rising by 7.5 percent, and shipments growing by 9.2 ...
Japan’s Fujitsu, Toshiba & Vaio to merge PC businesses
Japanese tech giants Fujitsu, Toshiba and Vaio are reportedly mulling the idea of merging their PC businesses, and will begin holding “specific discussions” on the idea later this month. If all goes well, the new company will launch on April 1 in time for the start of Japan’s new financial year, Nikkei reports. The plan ...
Windows Phone to decline by over 10 percent this year, says IDC
Windows Phone might not be entering a death spiral just yet, but its long-term prospects don’t look particularly great according to new data released by International Data Corporation (IDC). In IDC’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, the market watcher revealed that it’s forecasting a 10.2 percent decline in Windows Phone’s growth, pushing its overall ...
Windows 10 adoption loses pace as it captures 9% of all PCs
Depending on how you look at the stats, adoption of Windows 10 is either slowing down or well on the way towards Microsoft’s proclaimed goal of having its OS on one billion devices within two years of its release. New data from analytics vendor Net Applications shows Windows 10 is now running on nine percent ...
Report: Enterprises won’t rush into Windows Server 2016
Microsoft’s promise to add new Hyper-V capabilities to its upcoming Windows Server 2016 edition is generating the most excitement among IT pros, but very few will rush into making any deployments, according to a new study from app maker Spiceworks Inc. Although Windows Server 2016 is still at the preview stage, Spiceworks decided that people ...
