Mike Wheatley
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Last week saw Amazon Web Services, Google and Microsoft all reported stunning growth in their respective cloud computing segments. The numbers underline what IT watchers have known for some time already – that there’s an almost insatiable appetite for the public cloud …
Report: IT staff are the biggest threat to IT security
The biggest risk to IT security isn’t posed by malware or hackers or even the threat of an electromagnetic pulse attack on your infrastructure. Rather, the most immediate danger lies much closer to home, with your IT staff posing the most imminent …
IBM in advanced talks to acquire The Weather Co.’s digital assets for $2B
IBM is said to be close to acquiring the digital and data assets of The Weather Company, with talks said to be at an advanced stage, according to The Wall Street Journal. The paper cites the usual “people familiar with the situation” …
Walmart applies to test delivery drones to compete with Amazon
Retail giant Walmart Stores Inc. is jumping on the drones bandwagon, with an application to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to let it begin testing drones in U.S. airspace. The end goal, according to Reuters, is to deliver its products to customers …
Enterprise applications are “too complex” claims new study
The complexity of enterprise applications and their underlying infrastructure leads some employees to use simpler, consumer applications instead of approved company tools to complete some critical tasks, a new study has found. The takeaway comes from a new whitepaper by Capriza Inc., …
Ex-VMware CTO Ben Fathi joins CloudFlare
VMware Inc.’s ex-chief technology officer Ben Fathi is back at work barely two months after leaving his old job, having joined up with CloudFlare Inc. as its new head of engineering. Fathi outlined his reasons for joining up with his new employer …
Under pressure: Might Marissa Mayer jump ship too?
A number of recent high-level executive departures at Yahoo! Inc. suggests that company’s turnaround under CEO Marissa Mayer is rapidly losing momentum, little more than three years after she took over the reins. The most recent names to abandon ship were corporate …
Nutanix Community Edition heads for the cloud
Nutanix Inc. will soon make its Community Edition software available on the the public cloud, according to reports. The Register says Nutanix’s hyperconverged server/storage/networking systems will soon be made available on either Amazon Web Services or Google Compute Platform, though it didn’t specify …
IBM’s Big Data analytics binge: Spark on Bluemix, Insight Cloud Services & More
Having first announced support for Apache Spark at the Spark Summit this summer, IBM has followed up with the launch of IBM Analytics on Apache Spark, a new Spark-as-a-Service offering available on its Bluemix Cloud. IBM Analytics on Apache Spark, which will …
IBM’s SoftLayer denounced as the world’s “biggest source of spam”
Few tech companies carry greater weight than the IBM brand, which is instantly recognizable as one of the most trusted names in technology and security. But while ‘Big Blue’ might be among the most respectable and fastest-growing vendors in the software security …