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Merging the power of Skype4B and Azure into Office 365 | #EC16

By Betsy Amy-Vogt Mar 10, 2016

The focus of Enterprise Connect 2016 is bringing Unified Communications (UC) into the cloud, and Zig Serafin, corporate VP of Skype Business Services at Microsoft, is at the forefront of a team that is transforming…

Ubisoft’s ‘The Division’ broke company records for the most copies sold in 24 hours

By Eric David Mar 10, 2016

Despite a few launch day server hiccups, Ubisoft Entertainment SA’s The Division seems to have been the company’s most successful launch to date, selling more copies in 24 hours than all of its previous games. The…

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Salesforce and Microsoft try to mend rocky relationship with Outlook integration

By Maria Deutscher Mar 10, 2016

It’s shaping up to be an exciting week for Salesforce.com Inc. users. Three days after introducing new security functionality designed to combat data theft, the customer relationship management giant is integrating its popular inbox…

Velostrata’s new software promises to move business app workloads to the cloud in minutes

By Duncan Riley Mar 10, 2016

On-demand hybrid cloud software startup Velostrata, Inc. has launched in general availability software that promises to move business application workloads to the cloud in minutes. The new technology is claimed to be the industry’s…

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Plexxi wants to bring the network into sync with the rest of the data center

By Maria Deutscher Mar 10, 2016

The centralized manner in which a software-defined network can be managed makes it much faster to perform configuration changes than traditional setups that require every affected piece of hardware to be updated individually. But…

Brain rehabilitation app maker Constant Therapy raises $2m Series A

By Duncan Riley Mar 10, 2016

Brain rehabilitation app maker Constant Therapy, Inc. has raised $2 million Series A in a round led by Golden Seeds that included Kapor Capital, Launchpad Venture Group, Pond Capital and Community Health Network of…

“Ransomware” is now the #1 threat to the enterprise

By Mike Wheatley Mar 10, 2016

Botnets are no longer in vogue, with so-called ransomware having overtaken them as the main threat to enterprises. Security outfit Trend Micro Inc. said that its analysis shows that file-encrypting ransomware accounted for 83…

Juniper & Lenovo forge hyper-converged alliance

By Mike Wheatley Mar 10, 2016

Juniper Networks Inc. has struck an alliance with China’s Lenovo Group Ltd., that will see the two companies work together to build a number of converged, hyper-converged and hyper-scale data center infrastructure products aimed…

Google jumps in bed with Facebook’s Open Compute Project

By Mike Wheatley Mar 10, 2016

A few years ago, Facebook became the first “Web giant” to realize that data center infrastructure vendors were going to be unable to keep up with its computing requirements. In response, it launched a…

Surface Book vs. Mac: A war of words with a musical twist

By James Farrell Mar 10, 2016

Following an advertising campaign in which Microsoft lists the wonders of Windows 10 for PC and why it’s so much better than anything Apple Inc. can put together, Redmond is now bashing its competitor…