Cloud price wars: How low can they go?
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, and Microsoft have been waging a price war in cloud compute, network, and storage services that has taken on drumbeat predictability. You can safely bet that when one drops…
Google publishes unpatched vulnerability in Windows 8.1
Google has made Microsoft look a bit foolish after publishing details of a vulnerability it discovered in Windows 8.1 that allows attackers to gain system administrator privileges. Google didn’t hesitate to release the vulnerability,…
Verizon Cloud customers brace themselves for two-day outage
Verizon has admitted its cloud services will go offline for as long as 48 hours next weekend, during which time all virtual machines hosted there will be unavailable. Verizon’s Cloud Client Care page neglects…
Hortonworks adds new Hadoop certifications for partners
Riding on the early success of its IPO, open-source Hadoop heavyweight Hortonworks Inc. has announced it’s extending its partner developer certification program, adding certifications in operations, security and governance for partners that develop software…
Cybercriminals exploit AirAsia tragedy with malicious links
Cybercriminals have latched on to the AirAsia Indonesia Flight QZ 8501 tragedy, taking advantage of people’s curiosity to lure them into clicking on malicious links in an attempt to steal their personal information. AirAsia…
China blocks access to Google’s Gmail service again
China’s Internet censors have been busy over the Christmas weekend, with reports suggesting the country has blocked access to Google’s Gmail service since December 26. Web traffic research outfit Dyn Research said that Gmail’s…
Is Hadoop over-hyped? Market-watchers say no
When an organization wants to dig into its Big Data these days, it’s almost inevitable that Hadoop, the open-source data storage and processing framework for dealing with extremely large data sets, will get the…
Ireland sides with Microsoft over US email demands
Microsoft has picked up a hefty ally in its battle to oppose a US court order demanding access to emails stored in its Dublin, Ireland data center. The Irish government has sided with Redmond,…
PlayStation Network and Xbox Live hacked on Xmas Day, forcing millions of gamers offline
Thousands of video gamers had their Christmas Day fun ruined yesterday thanks to a bunch of mischievous hackers who contrived to knock out both Sony’s PlayStation Network and Microsoft’s Xbox Live online gaming service…
IDC highlights top Big Data trends for 2015
Fewer tech trends are likely to be hotter than Big Data analytics in 2015 as far as the enterprise is concerned. Hot on the heels of Forrester’s forecast that Hadoop will become an “enterprise…