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The “real” impact of China’s war on US tech
The row between the US and China over cyber-espionage allegations could cause some real headaches for American firms, fostering suspicions and mistrust that could impact on tech trade between the two nations. That much was evident last week when China turned up the heat on IBM, announcing it was “reviewing” whether local banks should dump ...
iOS 8 boldly goes where no iOS has gone before
Apple caused a bit of a stir in its keynote at WWDC yesterday, with the introduction of several new features developed with enterprise IT users in mind. During the keynote, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi said that iOS 8 would be a “huge hit in the enterprise”, as the company finally ...
VMware responds to AWS stealth attack: ‘Don’t be fooled’
VMware has hit back at Amazon’s sneaky “stealth attack” on its vCenter management console in a carefully worded blog post that aims to dissuade users from embracing its new rival. It follows last week’s announcement of a new AWS Connector for vCenter plug-in that makes it easier for admins to manage and migrate workloads from ...
AWS launches stealth bomb on VMware
Amazon has just teleported its cloud into VMware’s management software with the release of its new “AWS Connector for vCenter”. The connector lets VMware administrators buy, manage, and migrate VMs into AWS cloud resources from within VMware’s vCenter management console. vCenter is a widely used piece of software from VMware that lets admins manage large ...
NSA using facial recognition software to build massive image database
The NSA isn’t just interested in reading all of your emails and listening to your phone calls, now it wants to put a face to the name. At least that’s according to the latest batch of NSA documents leaked by Edward Snowden, brought to our attention by the New York Times. The documents show how ...
Is MaidSafe really the ‘Bitcoin of data’?
When Edward Snowden revealed how the NSA has been spying on people’s online activities, some began looking for ways to protect themselves while using online services. There are some services, such as email, social networks, browsers and so on, that promise to keep people’s identity safe and protected, but people are still looking for safer ...
Server market sinks again: Can Lenovo turn it around?
Lenovo executives could be forgiven for having second thoughts as they wait to get their hands on IBM’s x86 server business, following a new report from Gartner which shows Big Blue’s sales train heading south yet again. Gartner says IBM’s server business continued its slump in Q1 of 2014, and is now estimating a 27.8 ...
Salesforce forges alliance with the ‘evil empire’
Salesforce.com has finally buried the hatchet and teamed up with Microsoft – a company its CEO Marc Benioff once famously referred to as the “evil empire”. Putting an end to speculation yesterday, the two ‘frenemy’ companies have announced an alliance that’ll allow Windows and Azure users to access Salesforce’s tech more easily from Microsoft’s products. ...
Virtual Reality brings Big Data visualization to life
Data visualization tools have made it somewhat easier to glean intelligence from a mass of information. But today’s tools are still extremely inefficient, as they fail to incorporate the science of human visual perception into their data visualization techniques. This results in tools that deliver great “eye candy” but poor human comprehension of the data. ...
Huawei beefs up SDN offering, connects to MS, OpenStack & VMware
China’s Huawei is trying to make up for a lack of trust by expanding its software-defined networking support. To do so, it’s just launched an Agile Data Center Cloud Connect Solution, which we’ll helpfully refer to as ADCCCS from now on. Huawei says its ADCCCS is based on two key components: the Agile Controller Platform ...