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Microsoft steps up its ‘green’ data center campaign
Microsoft’s data center operations have been officially “carbon-neutral” since 2012, but that’s not nearly good enough for Redmond’s environmentally-friendly bods. They’re not satisfied, because legal loopholes mean that data center operators don’t actually have to use renewable energy directly in order to be considered carbon-neutral, and it’s a problem Microsoft wants to remedy. Microsoft said ...
Aqua Security intros a layered approach to container security & compliance
The container security landscape has seen some significant developments over the last year, with Docker Inc. releasing its Docker Security Scanning tool and CoreOS Inc. launching its own Clair security tool. Now, a new player is entering the container security game, aiming to go further than just scanning containers for known vulnerabilities. Aqua Security Software ...
Jenkins migrates its infrastructure onto Microsoft Azure
The open-source Jenkins Project has revealed it’s collaborating with Microsoft to utilize Azure cloud resources to meet its growing infrastructure needs. Jenkins, a continuous integration and delivery solution that’s extremely popular with developers, will move its entire back-end infrastructure to Microsoft Azure. The change comes less than a month after the release of Jenkins 2.0, in ...
Salesforce expands relationship with AWS as it claims “best ever” opening quarter
Salesforce.com, Inc., has expanded its relationship with Amazon Web Services, and will continue doing so, according to CEO Marc Benioff. The CEOs comments came in an earnings call that followed the release of Salesforce’s Q1, 2016 results on Wednesday. The company’s shift to AWS from its own data centers appears to represent a major strategic ...
Gartner shows PC vendors how to boost their profits
Everybody has known for ages that the PC market, while perhaps not quite doomed, is certainly going through a long period of decline which it’s unlikely to bounce back from. Tech industry analysts including Gartner Inc., and International Data Corp. (IDC) have both said so, on more than one occasion, but now the former is ...
VMware ditches Windows for all-new HTML 5 vSphere client
VMware Inc., says admins will soon only be able to operate vSphere from its HTML 5 client, because it’s about to stop developing its Windows client. In a blog post announcing the decision, VMware points out that it’s already adopted HTML 5 clients for many of its other products. It held back on vSphere because ...
Cisco breezes past Wall Street’s expectations with solid Q3
There was a lot of apprehension in investor’s circles ahead of Cisco Systems Inc.’s third-quarter earnings report, but those worries were exaggerated. Once again, Cisco blew past Wall Street’s expectations, with its share price surging by six percent in after-hours trading following its earnings call. For investors, Wednesday’s report can be seen as a green light ...
MapR’s new Quick Migration Service makes jumping ship hassle-free
Most technology vendors are keen to ‘steal’ customers from rival companies, but the complexity of software installations means that it’s difficult to do so, because most enterprises just don’t feel it’s worth all the hassle. At least, that’s how it used to be, but now some vendors have taken it upon themselves to make migrating ...
Cazena’s big data-as-a-service offering lands on Azure
Big data-as-a-service startup (BDaaS) Cazena Inc., which burst onto the scene just last year, has said its flagship offering can now be used with Microsoft Azure, giving customers faster access to on-demand data processing and analytics. Cazena is betting that support for Azure will be attractive to the thousands of enterprises that currently use Microsoft’s ...
Microsoft makes one last, extremely deceptive Windows 10 upgrade push
Windows 7 and 8 users beware: Microsoft has launched one last aggressive push aimed at getting as many folks to update to Windows 10 as it possibly can, before the expiration of its free upgrade offer. News of Microsoft’s renewed push comes from Computerworld, which reports the company has switched the offered Windows 10 download ...