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Canadian Enterprise Information Management software firm OpenText Corp. has rolled out an easy-to-implement cloud-based Big Data analytics service that’s designed to allow businesses to extract insights from their data without building and operating their own infrastructure. Called OpenText Big Data Analytics (BDA), …
Will the iPad Pro be an enterprise hit? Opinions are split
Apple yesterday made its biggest enterprise mobility push yet with the launch of the iPad Pro – a bigger, faster tablet that packs a bunch of improvements aimed at making it more suitable for the workplace. But analysts are divided over whether …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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, …
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 …
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 …