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SAP’s merry-go-round continues with key exec dumped from the cloud
There’s a big shake-up going on over at SAP, with reports suggesting its executive in charge of its cloud business unit, Shawn Price, has been sacked. This comes just three days after SAP exec Vishal Sikka apparently stepped down for “personal reasons”, and just four months after Price replaced Robert Calderoni, who quit the post ...
VMware: Get your hands dirty + build your own VSAN nodes
When VMware first unveiled its VSAN, a programmable storage feature built directly into vSphere, it teamed up with a number of partners who were ready and willing to offer compatible servers to integrate as “ready nodes”. This included the likes of Dell, Cisco, Supermicro, Inspur and Fujitsu, who all promised to ready tricked-up servers with ...
EMC bets big on hybrid clouds swallowing the enterprise
IT companies offer their customers dozens of ways to either build their own hybrid or private clouds, and EMC has just joined the party with the launch of its new EMC Hybrid Cloud package. Announced at EMC World earlier this week, the solution is claimed to deliver rapid application provisioning and deployment alongside improved levels ...
Is this the end for Bitcoin in China?
A shadow has once again been cast over the Chinese Bitcoin industry, with the news that its biggest exchange, BTC China, has been prevented from taking cash deposits from the People’s Bank of China. The news came from the horses’ mouth via Twitter: “Dear users, Due to regulations, we have suspended CNY deposits from Bank ...
EMC’s Syncplicity adds missile-grade authentication & smarter sharing features
There’s a violent struggle going on right now in the business sync ‘n’ share market of late, with the likes of Microsoft and Dropbox using sheer muscle power – a whopping 1TB and unlimited storage respectively – to grab a bigger market share. Microsoft has also been stressing the importance of Office integration with its ...
Mozilla’s radical plan to save net neutrality
There’s been an interesting twist to the never-ending net neutrality debate. Mozilla, makers of the Firefox browser and all-round champion of Internet freedom, has proposed a novel way the Federal Communications Commission can legally protect net neutrality, giving activists and the Obama administration what they’ve wanted all along. In a nutshell, what Mozilla’s doing is ...
Symantec: Antivirus is dead – long live security-as-a-service!
Antivirus software maker and web security firm Symantec has hinted at plans to get out of its main line of business. Rather than fixing security problems, Symantec wants to stop them from happening in the first place, adding that the concept of antivirus software was on its last legs. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, ...
Rotten Apple? iPhone maker could fall from grace by 2020
Exactly which three tech companies will be top of the tree come 2020? That’s impossible to say with any certainty, but at least one expert thinks that Apple’s days as one of the tech world’s giants are numbered, while he also had plenty of nice things to say about Bitcoin’s blockchain, and its potential to ...
Windows XP users got lucky this time, but don’t expect it to last
Microsoft caused a few surprise last week with the announcement of one last update for Windows XP, in order to fix a major security flaw in its Internet Explorer browser. This comes after support for XP officially ceased last April. The company explained its decision in a blog post, saying it was providing the update ...
Google’s secret weapon: A ‘Silver’ bullet aimed squarely at Android
Last week it was announced that Google is working on a new brand of smartphones to be branded as “Silver”, in what looks like an initiative to seize back control of its Android OS. Silver looks to be a declaration of war on the likes of Samsung and other device makers. In a similar fashion ...