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Microsoft rolls out new enterprise features for Windows 10
Microsoft is ready to update Windows 10 with three new enterprise-focused features that weren’t included in the initial release. One of the most interesting new features is Microsoft’s Windows Store for Business, which is essentially a unified Windows Store where admins can make bulk purchases of business apps, and where authorized employees can also purchase ...
Microsoft goes back to court to fight DOJ’s Irish data warrant
Microsoft is preparing to lock horns with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) once again. It’s heading back to court in order to fight a search warrant that demands access to the data of a criminal suspect stored on its Irish servers. Microsoft, which has seen two previous judgements go against it in the lower ...
CloudBerry Lab intros free cloud-based Desktop Backup solution
CloudBerry Lab Ltd., the backup and data management specialist, has just launched Desktop Backup Free with its new Backup 4.3 release. CloudBerry Lab’s solution offers block level backup in addition to real-time and regular, scheduled backups for simple data, local disk image, or bare metal restore, together with an alert feature that tracks backups and ...
Tech vendors’ foreign revenues to decline in 2015
Forrester Research Inc. has come up with a report that seems to justify most U.S. tech companies’ primary excuse for performing so poorly in foreign markets this year. The research outfit says that 2015 will be a “pretty awful” year for most U.S. technology firms, which are struggling to eke out a profit thanks to ...
IDC storage tracker: Hyperscale data center sales rise 25.8%
International Data Corp. has published its latest quarterly storage tracker, and it serves to illustrate the rapidly growing popularity of software-defined storage (SDS). IDC’s data shows that sales from smaller manufacturers who sell directly to cloud giants like Google and Facebook are on the up, while the traditional external storage system market continues to decline. ...
Google plots return to China with censored Play Store
Google is plotting a return to China, following a five year absence after falling out with the communist nation over its censorship laws. According to The Information, Google is expected to make its comeback with the launch of a new version of its Play Store that’s “tailored” for a Chinese audience, later this year. If ...
Citrix woos VMware users with free migration kit & big discounts
Virtualization vendor Citrix Systems Inc. is hoping to win over customers from its arch rival VMware Inc., with the launch of a free kit and cloud service for developers who want to migrate from VMware’s Horizon View to Citrix’s XenApp and XenDesktop. The offer comes with a big discount – with Citrix knocking off up ...
Apache Ignite & Apache Lens: New top-level projects explained
The Apache Software Foundation welcomed two new top-level projects into its embrace last week in the shape of Big Data analytics-focused Apache Ignite and Apache Lens. It’s fair to say that both projects have been relatively unheard of until now, but their inclusion as full-fledged members of the Apache family certainly merits a closer attention ...
Microsoft acquires VoloMetrix to boost organizational analytics capabilities
Microsoft is getting serious about something it calls “organizational analytics” with the acquisition of VoloMetrix, a service that analyzes organizational performance using anonymized data gathered from corporate networks. In a blog post announcing the move, Rajesh Jha, Microsoft corporate vice president in charge of Outlook and Office 365, said the newly acquired technology would help ...
IBM’s IoT platform arms itself to the teeth with ARM chips
IBM is teaming up with silicon chip manufacturer ARM Holdings Plc in a deal that will see its cloud platform watch and analyze data from billions of connected “things”. IBM said it will integrate its Internet of Things (IoT) technology with ARM’s chips, which means devices running on ARM mbed chips will be able to ...