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Microsoft revamps Azure Site Recovery for VMware users
Microsoft has enhanced its Azure Site Recovery (ASR) tools for VMware customers, making it easier for them to back up and recover their VMware virtual servers. “Customers can now protect and replicate their VMware virtual machines and physical servers to Azure, without the need to deploy any replication or orchestration components in Azure IaaS [Infrastructure-as-a-Service],” ...
Known vulnerabilities cause 44 percent of all data breaches
Most IT experts are well aware of the need to patch vulnerabilities in their systems as soon as possible, but despite this, known security issues remain the leading cause of corporate data loss and production downtime in the enterprise. That’s the biggest finding of BMC Software Inc.’s latest security survey, The Game Plan for Closing ...
Google stamps its feet: Our cloud is still cheaper than yours!
Unsettled by Amazon Web Services’ latest round of price cuts last week, Google has gone on the record to insist its own cloud services are still much cheaper than its rival. The company has just posted a blog outlining a price comparison of its services versus those from AWS, reflecting what it says are lower ...
Ford and Google’s self-driving car partnership is still on the table
Rumors that Ford and Google might be launching a joint venture in the nascent autonomous driving sector were expected to be confirmed at last week’s CES Show in Las Vegas, but although that didn’t happen, the two companies are still said to have plans for a collaboration in the works. In a Wall Street Journal ...
NewVantage: Big Data adoption went mainstream in 2015
Big Data is officially “a thing” with senior executives at Fortune 1000 firms indicating they’ll increase spending on collecting and analyzing data sharply over the next few years. In addition, the majority of enterprises recognize the importance of having someone to lead their Big Data efforts, and are increasingly hiring Chief Data Officers to do ...
Cloud spending hits new heights, tops $110bn
Synergy Research Group has dedicated 2015 as “The Year of the Cloud”, saying it marked the year that cloud services and infrastructure officially become mainstream in the enterprise. Last week, Synergy posted the results of a study measuring growth rates in six different cloud segments, including the all-important Software-as-Service (SaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) components. The ...
Danny Sabbah joins two other IBM execs out the door
IBM has shed three of its top executives in the last month, including its cloud chief technology officer Danny Sabbah, who had spent the last 27 years at Big Blue. Fortune reports that Sabbah left IBM in late December. He first joined the company back in 1988, and held various roles over the years including ...
EMC’s Chad Sakac takes over at VCE as layoffs loom
EMC Corp. has unveiled veteran executive and former theCUBE guest Chad Sakac as the new president of VCE, its converged infrastructure business that combines compute, storage and networking into a single product. Sakac has been a stalwart of EMC for the past 11 years, most recently serving as its president of global systems engineering. He’ll ...
Amazon debuts ARM-based chips for the Internet of Things
Amazon.com, Inc., is making a play for a piece of the smart home market with the launch of a new line of semiconductors. The chips will be sold to smart home product designers building Wi-Fi router, Internet of Things devices and other smart home appliances. Amazon’s chips are built by its Israeli subsidiary Annapurna Labs, ...
Microsoft quietly launches R Server for Big Data analytics
Microsoft has launched a new advanced analytics platform based on the R programming language, less than a year after it acquired Revolution Analytics, the company that was previously the leading commercial provider of software and services for R. The new platform is called Microsoft R Server, and is compatible with Windows, Linux, Hadoop and Teradata ...