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Google rolls out ‘CDN Interconnect’ to cut back on cloud data costs
Google is teaming up with a group of Content Delivery Network (CDN) providers in order to slash bandwidth costs for its cloud infrastructure services users under a new initiative called CDN Interconnect. Google has made agreements with four CDNs that ensure customers who use CloudFlare, Fastly, Highwinds, or Level 3 CDN services together with Google ...
IDC: Strong dollar pushes server makers to the brink
Server makers are being warned to justify price increases with better performance and additional features if they want to avoid a substantial decline in European sales, according to a new report. International Data Corp. (IDC) said in a research note that U.S. firms have been forced to raiser their prices several times this year due ...
Are the cops being cheated on cloud costs?
With law enforcement agencies finding themselves under scrutiny in the wake of a series of controversial shootings of civilians, police departments have begun equipping officers with body cameras in order to document, and hopefully minimize, such events. So-called body cams have already had a measurable impact. In Birmingham, Alabama, the local police department reports a ...
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 ...