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MariaDB pulls announcement of major new release at last minute | Update: All is OK
Update 2:30PM EST: MariaDB told us this afternoon that the announcement was delayed in order to fine-tune the messaging and does not indicate any problems with the product. “General availability hasn’t changed at all,” said Lilia Shirman, interim chief marketing officer. “It’s going to be available at the end of the month. We realized there ...
Gartner: Most cloud ERP systems are doomed to fail by 2018
Enterprises that think they can escape the clutches of vendor lock-in by shunting their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) operations to the cloud are in for a very rude awakening, according to Gartner Inc. The research house has just landed a sucker punch with the claim that almost all cloud ERP projects are doomed to fail ...
Amazon lobs a reverse Snowball at enterprises
Uploading 100 terabytes of data to the cloud is extremely time consuming, expensive, and uses a hell of a lot of bandwidth. Amazon Web Services (AWS) believes that lots of people would like to use its cloud storage services, but understands that many of them balk at the time and expense that goes with uploading ...
Docker launches the Docker Cloud based on Tutum technology
Docker Inc. has launched a new Docker Cloud surface that’s built upon the technology it acquired when it purchased Tutum Inc. for an undisclosed sum in October 2015. When Docker purchased Tutum, the latter company had less than ten employees and its service was still being offered as a “limitless” free beta. At the time ...
Joe Tucci retirement looms as Michael Dell reveals future executive team
What with Dell Inc.’s acquisition of EMC Corp. seemingly on track after securing regulatory approval in both the U.S. and in Europe, Michael Dell is now confident enough to announce his plans for the new company’s leadership once the deal goes through. Dell the man announced his plans in an company-wide email to staff at Dell, ...
Rackspace edges further away from the public cloud
Rackspace Inc. looks like its retreating even further from the public cloud with reports suggesting that up to 90 of its employees are being shifted to faster growing businesses in the company, such as hybrid and private cloud. It’s not clear if any employees are going to be laid off, the San Antonio Business Journal ...
707 million records stolen in data breaches last year
Last year saw a whopping 707 million private records stolen during 1,673 separate data breaches, according to a new report from Dutch research outfit Gemalto NV. Gemalto said in its 2015 Breach Level report that this equates to just under 2 million records stolen every single day, or a stunning 22 records stolen per second, ...
Gartner’s Avivah Litan stamps her feet: “Stop bullying Apple!”
Gartner Inc. analyst Avivah Litan has weighed in to ongoing kerfuffle over Apple’s refusal to hack that iPhone for the FBI, saying that authorities should “stop bullying Apple”. Writing in the Gartner blog, Litan argues that the iPhone in question is unlikely to have any evidence locked away inside it because San Bernardino killer Syed ...
IBM buys Resilient Systems, hires security guru Bruce Schneier
IBM has finalized a deal to acquire a startup called Resilient Systems Inc. in a move that not only bolsters its own security offerings, but also means it obtains the services of one of the world’s foremost computer security expects, Bruce Schneier. Rumors of the deal first emerged last week. Although the terms of the ...
Microsoft unveils a slew of new security services to secure the enterprise
Microsoft unleashed a number of new security services last week, as part of a renewed security initiative laid out by the company’s CEO Satya Nadella last November. The major new offering is the new Microsoft Cloud App Security service, available from April, which aims to give companies greater control and more protections over Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) ...