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Citrix to split itself apart at shareholder’s behest; 1,000 layoffs to come
Beleaguered IT giant Citrix Systems Inc. has announced a major organizational reshuffle that will see it lay off around 1,000 full time staff and spin-off some of its most well-known technologies, while exiting other businesses entirely. The big news is that Citrix is casting off its “GoTo” product family, which includes GoToAssist, GoToMeeting, and GoToMyPC, ...
Microsoft targets enterprise security with $1bn Cyber Defense Operations Center
Microsoft has announced a major new initiative that will see the company build a holistic security platform incorporating the best attack detection, protection and response features built into the Azure cloud, Windows 10, Office 365 and a new Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite. In a speech that emphasized the importance of security in a new “mobile ...
EMC’s storage systems sink their teeth into the cloud
EMC Corp. today unveiled a range of new products and solutions aimed at seamlessly connecting primary storage and data protection systems to both public and private clouds. According to the company, the new products allow organizations to take advantage of the unlimited scalability offered by public clouds, and the control and security of private cloud ...
VMware cranks up container efforts with open-source Photon Controller
VMware Inc. has followed up on a promise it made earlier this year to open-source its Photon Controller. The Photon Controller is a component of VMware’s much-hyped Photon Platform, a new infrastructure stack built for running “cloud native” (or containerized) applications that the company rolled out at this year’s VMworld event. Other components of the ...
Microsoft to roll out Windows 10 upgrades slower than first thought
Microsoft is likely to shift to a twice-a-year upgrade schedule for Windows 10, as opposed to the original three-times-a-year upgrade cycle it first proposed. Although no one from Microsoft has actually confirmed the new upgrade cycle, Gregg Keizer writes in ComputerWorld that the Redmond company has begun using different terminology in public documentation that talks ...
CoreOS open-sources Clair to clean up container vulnerabilities
Container-loving CoreOS Inc. has just released a new scanning tool that checks for vulnerabilities in containers to the open-source community. The new tool is called “Clair”, and is described as an API-driven analysis engine that inspects containers on a layer-by-layer basis to detect known security floors. “Using Clair, you can easily build services that provide ...
Microsoft ‘kills off’ Project Astoria, its plan to emulate Android apps
Microsoft has apparently decided to kill off a controversial project to create an emulator that would allow Android apps to run on Windows 10 mobile devices. The initiative, called Project Astoria, was first announced by Microsoft in April, along with similar projects to bring iOS and Web-based applications to the Windows platform. However, the somewhat ...
Nautilus sets sail with the world’s first floating data center
We’ve seen a number of novel approaches in the data center industry aimed at reducing energy consumption, from building facilities above the Arctic Circle to using water misters for evaporative cooling. Now, a startup called Nautilus Data Technologies Inc. from Pleasanton, California, has put forward a radical new idea – the floating data center. Last ...
New Relic delivers deeper analytics to keep your apps ticking over
New Relic Inc. is digging deeper into data with the launch of a new analytics component for its application and server monitoring software that promises to deliver new insights for developers. The New Relic Software Analytics Cloud will be embedded into each of the company’s product lines, giving developers the ability to rapidly query data ...
Cisco beats Q1 guidance but warns fortunes may soon decline
Cisco Systems Ltd. thrilled investors with better-than-expected revenues and income in its first quarter earnings, only for that delight to quickly turn to despair as the company issued a somewhat gloomy forecast for the future. First the good news – the company announced a net income of $2.4 billion, which translates to $0.48 cents per ...