Mike Wheatley
Latest from Mike Wheatley
Russia, China to cooperate on cybersecurity amid tensions with U.S.
Russia and China are on the verge of signing a unique cybersecurity cooperation agreement that would allow the two states to conduct “joint cybersecurity operations”, according to reports in Russian media. The Russian-language site Kommersant, which Forbes says is owned by Alisher Usmanov, an ally of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, broke the news, quoting anonymous ...
Microsoft’s cloud-first, mobile-first vision starts paying off
Microsoft’s transition from the desktop to mobility and the cloud is gaining momentum, with the company reporting growth in its cloud services, software and Surface tablet divisions – all areas where it’s been playing catch-up. On Thursday the Redmond firm posted its first quarter fiscal earnings, showing healthy sales revenues of $23.2 billion, up 25 ...
Ubuntu Server 14.10 adds new features for OpenStack & containers
Canonical has just shipped Utopic Unicorn, the latest version of its Ubuntu Server operating system. And while it isn’t quite the Promised Land of operating systems that the name suggests (there are no unicorns either), it does come with support for Docker containers, the latest iteration of OpenStack, and a bunch of other refreshed features ...
Microsoft promises enterprise-grade security features for Windows 10
Microsoft is stepping up its efforts to entice enterprises to adopt its up-and-coming Windows 10 operating system with a range of new security features that will be built into the final release. The plans were discussed in a lengthy blog post by Jim Alkove from the Microsoft Windows enterprise program management team. Alkove said Microsoft is ...
Lufthansa quits computers, outsources IT operations to IBM
Who says IT outsourcing is dead? IBM just bagged its biggest new customer of the year in the form of German flagship air carrier Lufthansa AG. The airline agreed to sell its IT services division to IBM, which will run it on a contract basis for at least the next seven years. The deal follows ...
NIST drafts hypervisor security recommendations
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a draft publication laying out the basics of hypervisor security. SP800-125a was published earlier this week, and is now open for public comment. The guide, written by NIST director and George Mason University professor Ramaswamy Chandramouli, is geared towards enterprise security and IT management, as ...
EMC welcomes a faster, more agile VCE back into its federation
EMC Corp. has put an end to days of speculation by confirming its intentions to buy out Cisco Systems Inc’s share of the Virtual Computing Environment Company (VCE). Once the deal is completed, VCE will be absorbed into EMC’s greater federation of companies. In a press call this morning, EMC said it’s going to buy ...
Glimmer of hope in Yahoo! earnings as mobile revenues surge
Yahoo! Inc.’s outlook brightened slightly as it posted a rare increase in revenues for the most recent quarter, partially driven by its emerging mobile business. The news isn’t much to write home about though; the company said its third-quarter GAAP revenues increased by just one percent to $1.148 billion, up from $1.139 billion in Q3 ...
SAP updates HANA platform with new features, licensing + APIs
SAP SE is hoping to ramp up sales of its flagship HANA in-memory database platform with a raft of new features, including a new application programming interface and improvements to the way it handles Big Data workloads. The announcement came at SAP’s TechEd & d-code conference in Las Vegas. The changes are aimed at making ...
Google buys Firebase to add real-time sync & store capabilities to its Cloud Platform
Google has acquired backend-as-a-service startup Firebase, maker of a development platform for building Android and iOS apps that can store and sync data in real time. Firebase, which counts some 110,000 registered users, will be integrated with Google’s Cloud Platform but will remain platform-agnostic. The most immediate benefit of the deal is that Firebase will be ...