Mike Wheatley
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Quite a few people were scratching their heads when Salesforce.com added Heroku to its list of acquisitions. After all, why on earth would Salesforce with its Force.com SaaS platform feel the need to buy up a PaaS platform like Heroku? Now, it …
Oracle launches OpenStack missile at Red Hat’s cloud party
Oracle has just taken a major shot across the bow of Red Hat, announcing a preview of its own OpenStack build designed to run atop Oracle Linux and Oracle VM Server. This comes following its integration of its Solaris platform with the …
Patch Tuesday signals play time for Windows XP hackers
Those who’re still running Windows XP are about to face a substantially higher level of risk now that Microsoft’s first Patch Tuesday since end of support has passed. Yesterday’s update saw several critical vulnerabilities patched in Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows …
Don’t be scared of Big Data. Just be careful
Big Data is a pretty frightening concept for some. Companies and organizations collect vast amounts of data on people’s lives, where they live, their habits, their friends, and this can all be stored, accessed and analyzed later on. But that doesn’t mean …
TechEd 2014: Microsoft steps up Azure hybrid cloud push
There’s been a lot of noise coming from the OpenStack Summit 2014 this week, but that hasn’t stopped Microsoft from betting on some enterprises choosing to move their workloads onto its own proprietary hybrid cloud. And that’s the message it hammered home …
Red Hat drops ManageIQ into the OpenStack mix | #OpenStackSummit
Red Hat was one of the busier participants during day one of the OpenStack Summit 2014 in Atlanta yesterday, rolling out new code it hopes will drive adoption of OpenStack and advance cloud management. The company said it’s willing to contribute its …
IBM unwraps Watson-powered push into software-defined storage
IBM has just lifted the lid off a new software-defined storage product whose technology is partly based on the Watson system used on the “Jeopardy” TV game show. The technology in question was devised in IBM’s research labs, and allowed its Watson …
GE beefs up Industrial Internet security with Wurldtech acquisition
The advance of the Internet of Things is inevitable, but question marks remain over just how safe these ‘things’ will be, given the myriad of vulnerabilities in the networks and protocols linking everything together. To combat this threat, industrial giant GE has …
Gmail leak: Radical redesign to scale across all platforms
A couple of leaked screenshots suggest that Google is about to spring a major revamp of its Gmail service onto unsuspecting users. The two images, which were obtained by Geek.com, show what looks to be the most drastic redesign of the Gmail …
#EMCworld final wrap: How the EMC federation was born
The final day of a fascinating EMC World conference came to a close yesterday, and after a record-breaking 75+ guest interviews over the three day event, theCUBE hosts Dave Vellante and Jeff Frick finally took a breather to discuss the concept behind …