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Following a rather flat looking set of financial numbers released this week, IBM could certainly do with a boost. Which is exactly why the company will welcome the results of a new survey out of 451 Research LLC., this week that reveals …
Spinning disk shipments to crumble as Flash accelerates
Yet more evidence that flash is the future has arrived by way of Nidec Corp., a Japanese spinning disk electric motor manufacturer, which says that disk drive shipments will fall by 3.7 percent between 2013 and 2020. The hit will be felt …
Microsoft’s cloud business goes sky-high as Windows sales fall off a cliff
Microsoft might have surpassed Wall Street’s expectations on profits and revenues in its latest results, but the bigger news is that the company’s painful transition is well underway, and it won’t be able to rely on its traditional cash cows for much …
Hadoop gets an update with version 2.7.0 release
The Apache Software Foundation has announced the release of Apache Hadoop 2.7.0 via the Hortonworks blog. The latest version of everybody’s favorite Big Data crunching software comes with some “significant enhancements” to the Hadoop Distributed File System and YARN, among other components, …
Microsoft adds proactive data loss prevention capabilities to Office 365
Microsoft is hoping to shield Office 365 users from potentially expensive leaks of sensitive information, with new data loss prevention (DLP) features built into OneDrive and SharePoint Online. Microsoft said its entering phase two of a multi-phase rollout of DLP features for …
Box builds an even better Box to power enterprise app development
Cloud file sharing firm Box has launched “Box Developer Edition”, a platform designed to be used as the backbone of new apps they build. Announced at the second annual Box Dev Day, the new product allows devs to use only the features …
Mesosphere adds Kubernetes container management to its Datacenter OS
An ambitious startup called Mesosphere Inc. is bidding to establish its technology as the default operating system in the data center. Meanwhile there’s Google and its Kubernetes project, which it hopes will become the standard technology for interacting with large computing clusters …
WANdisco’s new Fusion tool syncs Hadoop clusters
WANdisco Plc. has just announced the release of its new WANdisco Fusion tool, designed to distribute large datasets across multiple Hadoop clusters while keeping them in sync and up to date. WANdisco Fusion uses active replication technologies to deliver up to date …
Cyberattackers go ‘phishing’ for corporate victims
Cyberattackers are increasingly focusing their attacks on businesses rather than consumers, according to a new study by security company ProofPoint Inc. The current favored tactic is to exploit the fatigue of middle managers whose inboxes are often overloaded with emails, while attackers …
VMware earnings top analysts’ expectations
VMware Inc. might be worried about the threat posed to its business by containers, but its financial health is looking better than ever following yet another fine quarterly earnings report. The company has just posted first quarter results exceeding analysts’ expectations, hauling …