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Microsoft announced at its Ignite conference that it’s entering into a partnership with Adobe Inc. that will see the two companies promote each other’s cloud products. Adobe said that Microsoft Azure is now its “preferred cloud platform” for its products, and will …
Microsoft launches Windows Server 2016 with free commercial support for Docker
Microsoft took the opportunity at its Ignite conference Monday to announce the launch of Windows Server 2016, as well as System Center 2016 and Technical Preview 2 of its long-awaited Azure Stack hybrid cloud system. At the launch yesterday, Microsoft said it’s releasing …
Businesses like the Internet of Things, but they’re not doing it right
More than half of all enterprises believe the Internet of Things (IoT) is strategic to their business, but most are still taking a lax approach to security. The findings, from an International Data Corp. (IDC) global survey carried out in July and …
Microsoft boosts blockchain efforts with Ethereum-based Project Bletchley
Microsoft has announced the availability of Project Bletchley, its Ethereum-based consortium blockchain technology that was first unveiled in June of this year. Being able to set up and run consortium blockchains is a significant step toward creating scalable, next-generation enterprise apps that …
HyTrust survey highlights worrying lack of data encryption in the cloud
Yet another survey on cloud adoption has highlighted the lax attitude of enterprises towards data security. HyTrust Inc., in its 2016 HyTrust Cloud Adoption Survey, shows that 28 percent of companies that have deployed data, applications and workloads onto the public cloud …
Red Hat ships out OpenShift container platform, pushes new Docker initiative
Red Hat Inc. appears to be shaking up the Docker ecosystem with the launch of its OpenShift Container Platform 3.3 along with a new project called the Open Container Initiative Daemon (OCID) that aims to optimize production deployments of containers. OpenShift Container …
IBM bets on Swift to shake up enterprise app development
Apple Inc.’s popular open-source programming language Swift received major backing from IBM Corp. Thursday when the information technology giant announced a new runtime, or set of reusable programs, that allows Swift to be used on IBM’s Bluemix cloud applications platform. The announcement of …
HPE rolls out new solutions for data protection compliance
Any organization that wishes to operate in the European Union (EU) will have to make sure it’s in compliance with the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) directive that’s set to come into force early next year. With that in mind, Hewlett-Packard …
Sumo Logic’s machine data analytics service lands on Microsoft Azure
Log management and analytics vendor Sumo Logic has landed on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace with two certified products that offer users greater visibility into their cloud application workloads. The move follows Sumo Logic’s unveiling of an industry-first machine-data analytics platform earlier this …
Red Hat posts solid Q2 earnings, subscription revenue grows
Open-source powerhouse Red Hat Inc. delivered another encouraging set of numbers in its second quarter of fiscal 2017 earnings call, edging past market estimates. The Linux vendor reported income before certain costs such as stock compensation of 55 cents a share, with total …