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HPE cloud boss Bill Hilf departs the company
Just hours after rumors emerged of private equity firms circling Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE), the tech giant has announced the departure of three key executives, including the heads of its cloud and storage businesses. Bill Hilf, whose official title was senior vice president and general manager of HP Cloud, is stepping aside to “pursue other opportunities,” the ...
Windows 10 Anniversary Update prevents Pro edition users from disabling Microsoft’s ads
Microsoft is making some controversial changes to its Group Policy editor in its forthcoming Windows 10 Anniversary Update, which will mean that Windows 10 Pro edition users will no longer have the ability to disable some of the operating system’s more intrusive “features”. The Group Policy editor is an admin tool that allows Windows settings ...
AWS leads the cloud, but Google, IBM and Microsoft are all catching up
Amazon Web Services (AWS) continues to lead the field in cloud infrastructure services, but rivals including Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and IBM Softlayer are all catching up, according to analysis from Canalys. According to the research house’s latest figures, 30.4 percent of all cloud infrastructure spending in Q2 2016 went to AWS. Canalys said ...
Private equity firms eye HPE’s software business for acquisition
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) is said to be the subject of multiple acquisition talks. According to two separate reports quoting unnamed sources, HPE is the subject of a proposed takeover by several private equity groups, and is also considering the sale of some of its software assets, including Autonomy and Vertica. If either report ...
Chimera ransomware keys leaked by rival gang as cyber-turf wars heat up
The ransomware business has gotten so profitable and so competitive that rival gangs are now sabotaging each other in a bid to secure more victims for themselves. As revealed this week, the creators of the Mischa and Petya ransomware viruses have turned on the criminal gang behind the better-known and more widely-distributed Chimera ransomware, stealing its code ...
HERE Maps rebrands as HERE WeGo, adds new route planning features
HERE Maps, considered by many to be the only serious rival to Google Maps, will no longer be known as “Maps” after deciding to rebrand itself. As of today, the app will now be known as HERE WeGo. The company said the rebranding reflects its greater emphasis on directions and route planning, with an emphasis ...
The UAE outlaws VPNs and proxies under threat of stiff fines and jail time
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has apparently outlawed the use of VPNs and secure proxy services in the country via a new royal edict. Anyone caught using a VPN could potentially be jailed and fined between 500,000 and 2,000,000 UAE dirhams ($136,130 to $544,521), announced UAE President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan ...
The unstoppable rise of Ransomware-as-a-Service
Security vendor Trend Micro Inc. has shined its spotlight on a worrying new trend in so-called ransomware – malware that uses encryption to lock up user’s files before demanding a ransom (usually in Bitcoin) to decrypt them. In a new post on Tuesday, Trend Micro takes a deep dive into the economics of “Ransomware-as-a-Service”, which ...
Dropbox ramps up its enterprise appeal ahead of expected IPO
Cloud storage vendor Dropbox Inc. is stepping up its enterprise push in order to get more profitable ahead of an expected initial public offering of stock, adding a set of new business-oriented features to its product. Dropbox, which boasts some 500 million users (including 200,000 companies currently using Dropbox Business), just announced AdminX, a new ...
Databricks ships out “easier, faster, smarter” Apache Spark 2.0
The immensely popular open-source cluster computing framework Apache Spark has just reached version 2.0, according to an announcement by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) yesterday. Spark’s incredible popularity means it’s become one of the most active open-source Big Data projects of them all, approaching the same level as Apache Hadoop, one of the oldest and ...