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Cisco Systems Inc. announced a major organizational reshuffle last week that saw four of its leading names transferred to advisory roles within the company. One week later, all four have said they’re leaving the company for good. The leaders said they decided …
Maersk wants to use drones to resupply its fleet of tankers
Shipping giant A.P. Moller–Maersk Group is betting on the idea of using drones to resupply its vessels as they sail the seven seas. The conglomerate made headlines earlier this year when it used a drone to fly a bucket of cookies out …
HPE takes pole position in storage market as rivals slump
The latest enterprise storage market tracker from International Data Corp. (IDC) shows that Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) has done extremely well, bucking a trend that saw the wider market decline, with ODM supply to hyperscalers also on a downward spiral. Overall, the enterprise …
Google adds standard SQL support to BigQuery
Google has rolled out a new beta of BigQuery, the data warehousing and analysis service available on Google Cloud Platform, which lets admins use standard SQL instead of one of its dialects. BigQuery’s revamped SQL dialect replaces the existing dialect as the …
Microsoft arms Office 365 with advanced threat detection capabilities
Microsoft has introduced a new set of tools that can identify and eliminate potential security threats in Office 365. Office 365 Advanced Security Management is based on the capabilities of Microsoft’s Cloud App Security offering, which provides insights into whether or not …
Fight, fight, fight: Oracle plans to counter-sue cloud revenue whistleblower
Oracle “whistleblower” Svetlana Blackburn has a fight on her hands. The database giant, which has never been one to shirk away from its legal battles, has come out with all guns blazing in response to allegations it cooked its cloud revenue numbers, …
Server market struggles with few bright spots
Server sales continue to disintegrate in the face of unstoppable cloud growth and the increasing popularity of virtualization. The global server market saw revenues decline while shipments rose only modestly, indicating that sales prices continue to slip. Analyst firm Gartner Inc. said …
HPE’s OpenSwitch project gets Linux Foundation backing
The Linux Foundation has embraced a new open-source networking project in the shape of OpenSwitch. OpenSwitch is an open-source operating system for data center network switches that was first built by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise before being launched last year. The Linux-based OS is …
“Whistleblower” accuses Oracle of cooking its cloudy revenue books
A former Oracle employee is taking the database giant to court, claiming the company fired her for refusing to inflate its cloud-based revenue figures. Svetlana Blackburn claimed in a whistleblower lawsuit filed in San Francisco on Wednesday that her dismissal from the …
SQL Server 2016 is ready for prime time
Microsoft’s SQL Server 2016 has finally hit general availability, and Redmond chiefs are launching the software alongside a special offer aimed at wooing customers away from leading database giant Oracle. Oracle users are being offered the chance to migrate their databases to …