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Microsoft’s cloud business goes sky-high as Windows sales fall off a cliff
Microsoft might have surpassed Wall Street’s expectations on profits and revenues in its latest results, but the bigger news is that the company’s painful transition is well underway, and it won’t be able to rely on its traditional cash cows for much longer. But first the good news. The company made $4.98 billion in net ...
Hadoop gets an update with version 2.7.0 release
The Apache Software Foundation has announced the release of Apache Hadoop 2.7.0 via the Hortonworks blog. The latest version of everybody’s favorite Big Data crunching software comes with some “significant enhancements” to the Hadoop Distributed File System and YARN, among other components, not too mention the obligatory bug fixes. As noted by Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli, ...
Microsoft adds proactive data loss prevention capabilities to Office 365
Microsoft is hoping to shield Office 365 users from potentially expensive leaks of sensitive information, with new data loss prevention (DLP) features built into OneDrive and SharePoint Online. Microsoft said its entering phase two of a multi-phase rollout of DLP features for its cloud productivity suite. It began doing so last year with features that ...
Box builds an even better Box to power enterprise app development
Cloud file sharing firm Box has launched “Box Developer Edition”, a platform designed to be used as the backbone of new apps they build. Announced at the second annual Box Dev Day, the new product allows devs to use only the features of Box they want – be it file storage, content previews or something ...
Mesosphere adds Kubernetes container management to its Datacenter OS
An ambitious startup called Mesosphere Inc. is bidding to establish its technology as the default operating system in the data center. Meanwhile there’s Google and its Kubernetes project, which it hopes will become the standard technology for interacting with large computing clusters and containers. On the face of it, the two projects seem like competitors. ...
WANdisco’s new Fusion tool syncs Hadoop clusters
WANdisco Plc. has just announced the release of its new WANdisco Fusion tool, designed to distribute large datasets across multiple Hadoop clusters while keeping them in sync and up to date. WANdisco Fusion uses active replication technologies to deliver up to date data from one Hadoop cluster to another, regardless of where those clusters are ...
Cyberattackers go ‘phishing’ for corporate victims
Cyberattackers are increasingly focusing their attacks on businesses rather than consumers, according to a new study by security company ProofPoint Inc. The current favored tactic is to exploit the fatigue of middle managers whose inboxes are often overloaded with emails, while attackers are also seeking to trade off attack volume with more sophisticated attacks. Proofpoint’s ...
VMware earnings top analysts’ expectations
VMware Inc. might be worried about the threat posed to its business by containers, but its financial health is looking better than ever following yet another fine quarterly earnings report. The company has just posted first quarter results exceeding analysts’ expectations, hauling in $1.51 billion in revenues, an 11 percent increase on 2014’s first quarter, ...
Google plans a ‘faster’ Internet with its QUIC protocol
Few readers will remember, but it was almost two years ago that Google announced it was experimenting with a new way to speed up Internet traffic using a protocol it calls QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections). Now, Google says the results of that experiment are promising, and that it’s successfully boosted web traffic from its ...
BlackBerry’s revival rumbles on with WatchDox acquisition
BlackBerry Ltd. has made another bold move as its continues its revival, acquiring Israeli security startup WatchDox in a move that once more illustrates its new, laser-sharp enterprise software focus. The once-beleagured handset maker confirmed the acquisition in a statement earlier today but refused to disclose the terms of the deal. However, Isreali tech sites ...