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Microsoft’s update privacy policy has a new section on “Enterprise Products”
Microsoft has updated its privacy policy with the inclusion of a new section on “Enterprise Products.” According to the company, the term “Enterprise Products” relates to all of the company’s products and services that are designed for organizations and developers, and include “subscription cloud services, such as Office 365, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, ...
Rackspace on the verge of private equity buyout
Rackspace is reportedly close to being bought out by a private equity firm, almost two years after it first said it was planning to pursue strategic alternatives, the Wall Street Journal reported. In the time since it first announced it was looking for a new buyer, Rackspace’s fortunes drastically improved as it pursued a new ...
Google allows cloud customers to lock down their own data
Google has made its Customer-Supplied Encryption Keys (CESK) option for Google Compute Engine generally available. Customer content will still be encrypted by Google as the default option, but customers can choose to use CESK for better control over their data’s security. At present, Google Cloud Platform uses one or more encryption mechanisms automatically, and data ...
CognitiveScale nets $21.8m to scale out machine learning platform
The machine learning trend is showing no signs of slowing down, as Austin, Texas-based CognitiveScale became the latest startup in the space to land a significant funding round. The company revealed this week that it has just bagged $21.8 million in a Series B funding round led by Intel Capital and Norwest Venture Partners. The ...
LinkedIn adds Q&A style videos from its biggest “Influencers”
Business-centric social media site LinkedIn Corp. is finally entering the video space, following in the footsteps of rivals sites like Facebook, Twitter and others. But unlike the rest, LinkedIn is treading carefully at first, and will only allow a select bunch of users to answer questions put to them, in a similar fashion to how ...
Google’s Project Wing to start testing delivery drones in U.S.
Google’s “Project Wing” delivery drone initiative has said it will team up with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to conduct tests and help to establish new safety regulations. The tests are part of a larger public and privately-funded initiate to further the U.S. drone industry, officials said at the end of a White House workshop ...
Report: CIOs are the driving force behind enterprise cloud adoption
Chief Information Officers (CIOs) have such powerful influence that they’re the key driver in most enterprise migrations to the cloud, a new study from Unisys Corp. has found. Unisys quizzed more than 200 U.S.-based IT and business executives for its study, and found that 72 percent said the CIO is the primary driver of their ...
Windows 10 Anniversary Update starts rolling out
Microsoft yesterday began rolling out its much anticipated Windows 10 Anniversary update. The company plans to roll out the update in phases, starting with newer PCs first, although those who don’t want to wait can grab it from Microsoft’s servers now. “You don’t have to do anything to get the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, it ...
Mesosphere launches “Container 2.0” initiative
Mesosphere Inc., pioneer of the data center operating system approach to container orchestration, yesterday unveiled plans to kickstart what it calls the “Container 2.0” movement. The company has just struck alliances with a trio of enterprise Big Data vendors in order to take distributed app technology to the next level. On Monday, Mesosphere announced partnerships ...
Salesforce moves quick to snap up productivity app Quip
Salesforce.com, Inc. has been expanding beyond its core CRM business for some time, and yesterday took another step in that direction with the acquisition of cloud-based word processing app Quip. The deal was priced at $582 million, according to a filing made with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday. Quip is a productivity ...