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HPE takes pole position in storage market as rivals slump
The latest enterprise storage market tracker from International Data Corp. (IDC) shows that Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) has done extremely well, bucking a trend that saw the wider market decline, with ODM supply to hyperscalers also on a downward spiral. Overall, the enterprise storage market was worth $8.2 billion for Q1 of 2016, IDC said, a ...
Google adds standard SQL support to BigQuery
Google has rolled out a new beta of BigQuery, the data warehousing and analysis service available on Google Cloud Platform, which lets admins use standard SQL instead of one of its dialects. BigQuery’s revamped SQL dialect replaces the existing dialect as the default query language. The new default is is fully compliant with the 2011 ...
Microsoft arms Office 365 with advanced threat detection capabilities
Microsoft has introduced a new set of tools that can identify and eliminate potential security threats in Office 365. Office 365 Advanced Security Management is based on the capabilities of Microsoft’s Cloud App Security offering, which provides insights into whether or not unsanctioned cloud services – sometimes called “shadow IT” – are being used by ...
Fight, fight, fight: Oracle plans to counter-sue cloud revenue whistleblower
Oracle “whistleblower” Svetlana Blackburn has a fight on her hands. The database giant, which has never been one to shirk away from its legal battles, has come out with all guns blazing in response to allegations it cooked its cloud revenue numbers, announcing plans to counter-sue the ex-employee. Oracle’s wrath stems from a lawsuit filed ...
Server market struggles with few bright spots
Server sales continue to disintegrate in the face of unstoppable cloud growth and the increasing popularity of virtualization. The global server market saw revenues decline while shipments rose only modestly, indicating that sales prices continue to slip. Analyst firm Gartner Inc. said on Thursday that global server revenues declined by 2.3 percent in the first ...
HPE’s OpenSwitch project gets Linux Foundation backing
The Linux Foundation has embraced a new open-source networking project in the shape of OpenSwitch. OpenSwitch is an open-source operating system for data center network switches that was first built by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise before being launched last year. The Linux-based OS is designed to power network switches from various hardware vendors. The purpose is to ...
“Whistleblower” accuses Oracle of cooking its cloudy revenue books
A former Oracle employee is taking the database giant to court, claiming the company fired her for refusing to inflate its cloud-based revenue figures. Svetlana Blackburn claimed in a whistleblower lawsuit filed in San Francisco on Wednesday that her dismissal from the company last year was due to her refusal to artificially inflate the figures. ...
SQL Server 2016 is ready for prime time
Microsoft’s SQL Server 2016 has finally hit general availability, and Redmond chiefs are launching the software alongside a special offer aimed at wooing customers away from leading database giant Oracle. Oracle users are being offered the chance to migrate their databases to SQL Server 2016 for free until the end of this month. The offer ...
CoreOS creates Torus, a container-focused distributed storage system
Container-centric startup CoreOS Inc. has taken the wraps off of a new open-source project called Torus. Just like the company’s other projects, Torus is about bringing the same Web-scale technologies used by giants like Google and Facebook to a much wider audience, and this time around the focus is on distributed storage. CoreOS said it’s ...
HPE goes all-in on the data center in search of revenue growth
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) will place its bets on its main data center hardware business to continue driving the bulk of its revenues, once it’s done shedding its Enterprise Server business. HPE, which only split from its PC and printer business last year (that’s now become HP Inc.), said in its earnings call last month that ...