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HP faces up to reality: “It makes no sense for us to go head-to-head with Amazon”
Hewlett-Packard Co. has raised a few eyebrows by publicly admitting that it has no chance of competing in the public cloud infrastructure market against the likes of Amazon Web Services, and is “ceding the public cloud”, according to Quentin Hardy in the New York Times. “We thought people would rent or buy computing from us. ...
Microsoft plans ‘Redstone’ update to Windows 10 in summer 2016
We haven’t even seen Windows 10 hit the shelves, but already Microsoft has penned a date for its next major updates to the long-awaited operating system that many believe will right all the wrongs of Windows 8. The news, confirmed by ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley, is that “Windows Threshold”, the codename for Windows 10, will ...
ZenPayroll grabs $60M from Google Capital to build out cloud-based payroll processing solution
Cloud-based payroll software provider ZenPayroll has cobbled together $60 million in a series B funding round led by Google Capital. The latest round, which also saw participation from Emergence Capital Partners, Ribbit Capital, General Catalyst and Kleiner Perkin, brings its total funding to $86.1 million. ZenPayroll has made some big strides since its launch just ...
Intel bids to mask mobile losses with new reporting structure
Intel Corp. has announced a change to the way it reports its quarterly earnings in an all-too-obvious effort to mask the poor performance of its Mobile and Communications division. The chip maker unveiled its new financial reporting structure on Monday, saying it plans to combine its Mobile and Communications group with its PC Client division, ...
Microsoft seals the deal for Revolution Analytics
Microsoft has completed its takeover of Revolution Analytics, the company that commercalizes R, a programming language designed specifically to perform statistical analysis that has soared in popularity over recent years with the rise of data scientists. Revolution Analytics offers the Revolution R suite of tools that makes it possible to gain insights from large data ...
Oracle adds Big Data Integration tool to streamline Hadoop deployments
Oracle Corp. yesterday took the wraps off its new Data Integrator for Big Data, a solution that’s designed to help facilitate data integration and help deliver actionable insights to customers. The news comes shortly after Oracle announced a new grand vision for enterprise Big Data, releasing a clutch of new tools aimed at enabling its ...
Open-source eats open-source: Why the innovation will never stop
Technology only exists thanks to innovation. If nobody was pushing the boundaries with fresh ideas, then technology, and the people who depend on it, would have died out with the neanderthals. But while many people might believe the big tech vendors are the ones responsible for driving most of the innovation in computing today, that ...
NSA spying caused 9 percent of foreign firms to dump U.S. clouds
In the weeks following Edward Snowden’s revelations of the NSA’s massive web surveillance program PRISM, speculation was raised about the negative implications it could have on U.S. cloud companies. Now, Forrester Research has taken the time to see just what kind of impact it has had, asking a host of foreign firms whether or not ...
Juniper Networks dumps OpenDaylight, VMware scales back involvement
Juniper Networks Inc. has said it’s pulling out of the OpenDaylight consortium, while VMware Inc. has said it will downgrade its involvement from platinum membership to silver membership. The OpenDaylight consortium is the body set up to maintain the Linux Foundation’s SDN controller project, but the loss of two of its key members is unlikely ...
Mozilla joins Google in banning China’s web registrar over security breach
The Mozilla Foundation, the organization which develops the Firefox web browser, has joined Google in saying that it will stop trusting all new digital certificates issued by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC). The move comes in response to a major breach of trust that saw unauthorized credentials issued for Gmail and several other ...