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Alibaba plans more data centers as part of global cloud push
When China’s Alibaba Group Holding Limited opened up its first U.S.-based data center earlier this year, many analysts said the company would refrain from trying to muscle in on the turf of more established firms like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft. Instead, most analysts appeared to buy Alibaba’s story that it’s only targeting Chinese businesses that are ...
IBM, Deloitte team up to bring Big Data analytics to risk management
IBM is teaming up with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited to develop risk management and compliance solutions for the financial services industry. The two companies outlined their plans in a statement this week, saying Deloitte would provide its expertise in financial services and risk management consulting to assist IBM as it builds a range of cloud-based ...
Nutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey tramples on Cisco acquisition rumors
Nutanix Inc. CEO Dheeraj Pandey flatly denied rumors that his company is about to be acquired by Cisco Systems Ltd. in a statement on Monday, saying if he ever decided to sell up, Dell Inc. would be given the first opportunity to make a bid. “You may have seen recent press speculation of Cisco acquiring ...
Google steps up ecommerce efforts with “buy” button on mobile
Google is muscling even deeper into Amazon’s retail turf with a plan to add “buy” buttons to some of its mobile search results that take netizens directly to a new purchase page. The move is the latest sign of Google’s ambitions to expand its presence as a shopping portal, rather than just a place to ...
Google’s cloud shift will pave the way for others
Google is rapidly embracing the cloud, and hopes to have all of its internal corporate applications running there in the not-too-distant future. Already, more than 90 percent of its corporate applications have migrated, and as such the company has had to change the way it thinks about security, reports The Wall Street Journal. Google has ...
Microsoft says “non-genuine” Windows users will not get a free upgrade
Anyone running a “non-genuine” copy of Windows who was hoping to take advantage of Microsoft’s free upgrade to Windows 10 offer is likely to be disappointed. Contrary to earlier reports, it seems Microsoft isn’t going to just let anyone upgrade willy-nilly. Previously it was rumored that Microsoft was so keen to get everyone onto the ...
Back to school: Amazon announces AWS Educate to boost cloud learning
Amazon Web Services is hoping to entice more students to take up cloud computing, with the launch of a new program called “AWS Educate” that’s totally free for all approved educators, institutions and students. The program allows educators and students to apply for credits for a range of AWS service skills, such as Amazon Elastic ...
Azure rattles AWS & Google in Nasuni’s cloud storage tests
Storage-as-a-Service gateway startup Nasuni Corp. has just released one of its bi-annual reports rating the major public cloud service providers (CSPs), and it doesn’t make good reading for Google. Nasuni is a startup that offers cloud-based storage to its customers, using its NF-series filters as gateway devices. The company provides service-level agreements to its customers, ...
Oracle announces new spatial & graph tools for Hadoop and NoSQL
Oracle has just rolled out a handy new tool to help companies explore the oceans of data being consumed by technologies like Hadoop. Called the Oracle Big Data Spatial and Graph, the tool brings several new analytic capabilities to Hadoop and NoSQL. Oracle’s database already has its own spatial and graph tools, reports the IDG ...
Sage teams up with Salesforce to deliver new cloud platform for SMBs
Just as everyone was getting excited at the prospect of the $50 billion mega-acquisition of Salesforce.com, Inc., it looks as if there wasn’t any interest in the company after all, and instead all of the excitement was generated by a boring old partnership its has just announced with the UK-based Sage Group plc. Details of ...