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Servers are selling like hot cakes again
Servers sold like hot cakes in the last year, with vendors shifting a record 9.7 million units in 2015, raking in revenues of $55.1 billion for their efforts. International Data Corp. (IDC) said in its Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker that this amounted to an eight percent increase in revenues and 4.9 percent more shipments than ...
Google said OCP is “not relevant”, so why is it signing up now?
Google raised a few eyebrows earlier this week when it finally signed up to Facebook’s Open Compute Project (OCP) initiative, almost five years after it was first launched. Upon joining the effort, Google immediately contributed its first design – a set of specifications for a 48V rack power distribution unit, along with a new form ...
Microsoft launches its Dynamics AX ERP suite into the clouds
Microsoft’s cloud-based ERP software Dynamics AX has now been rolled out to customers worldwide, the company said. Dynamics AX becomes the latest Microsoft product to be shifted to the software-as-a-service model, and now integrates with the company’s other cloud services, such as Power BI. It underlines Microsoft’s determination to eventually shift all of its products ...
Rackspace revamps its OnMetal Cloud servers
Rackspace Inc. has rejigged its OnMetal Cloud Server lineup to deliver enhanced performance and connectivity to meet the needs of customers that require greater compute power, more intensive data processing and faster scaling and deployment capabilities. Rackspace’s OnMetal v2 Cloud Servers went into general availability on Thursday, the company said. The basic premise is the ...
“Ransomware” is now the #1 threat to the enterprise
Botnets are no longer in vogue, with so-called ransomware having overtaken them as the main threat to enterprises. Security outfit Trend Micro Inc. said that its analysis shows that file-encrypting ransomware accounted for 83 percent of all “data extortion” attacks in the fourth quarter of 2015. The most notorious strain of ransomware is known as ...
Juniper & Lenovo forge hyper-converged alliance
Juniper Networks Inc. has struck an alliance with China’s Lenovo Group Ltd., that will see the two companies work together to build a number of converged, hyper-converged and hyper-scale data center infrastructure products aimed at the enterprise. It’s an interesting if somewhat unexciting move, but one that has the potential to become a big deal. ...
Google jumps in bed with Facebook’s Open Compute Project
A few years ago, Facebook became the first “Web giant” to realize that data center infrastructure vendors were going to be unable to keep up with its computing requirements. In response, it launched a new project to redesign its data centers so they were not only scalable to meet its needs, but were also more ...
IoT adoption to drive growth in PaaS, Gartner says
More than half of all applications developed on Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) will be Internet of Things (IoT) centric by 2020, according to research house Gartner Inc. In a new report titled “Predicts 2016: PaaS Innovation Continues Unabated”, Gartner reveals how the rise in IoT adoption will drive much greater use of PaaS as the favorite way ...
One third of software developers are running scared of AI
Just under a third of software developers are living in fear of artificial intelligence systems, which they believe may one day push them out of a job. That was the highlight of a new survey from Evans Data Corp., which quizzed some 550 software developers and asked them what was the most worrisome thing in ...
Cisco acquires Synata to boost Spark search capabilities
Cisco Systems Ltd. is looking to boost the search capabilities of its Spark collaboration application, having just acquired enterprise search technology maker Synata. Synata offered technology that allowed enterprises to search their on-premises and cloud-based applications from a single venue. That service has now been shut down, but will be integrated into Cisco Spark, an ...