Joyent: Don’t fire the admin who took down your cloud
I’ve made no secret of my concern that the cloud is a basket not nearly ready to hold all the eggs. The latest example of why this is true occurred Tuesday at cloud operator…
How agile IT saved print media from Bubble 2.0 | #EMCworld
As advertising shifted from the printed page to the computer screen, Classified Ventures, LLC/Cars.com was founded in 1997 by a joint venture between several media companies, including Graham Holdings, The Washington Post, and the…
First Microsoft, now IBM – Who’s next in China’s ‘war on tech’?
Is China preparing to launch all-out war on US technology providers? That remains to be seen, but the dispute between the two superpowers is certainly heating up with reports that Chinese authorities are “reviewing”…
FTC calls for crackdown on ‘big’ data brokers
Consumers have little understanding of how so-called ‘data brokers’ are collecting and sharing information on their web browsing and personal habits, says a new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) report. “This is an industry that…
Uproar over eBay hack : Will the industry reset?
Many lasting ramifications for the industry have yet to emerge from the massive data breach disclosed last week at eBay, the internet auction and e-commerce site. The data compromise affected eBay’s entire user database, and…
Oracle reaffirms support for MySQL with centralized management tool for large-scale deployments
With the digital universe set to reach 40 zettabytes by 2020, the needless repetition involved in managing information silos individually, as has been done in the past, is becoming less and less acceptable for…
Microsoft Office 365 competes against Google Now and Siri with Oslo
By Saroj Kar
During the TechEd 2014 conference in Houston, Microsoft announced several new features for its cloud productivity suite. The most interesting is called the Office Graph and it is a service that allows users to…
Private infrastructure is the cornerstone of hybrid computing, says EMC cloud chief | #EMCworld
Over the last few years, EMC World has evolved from just another storage show to a well-rounded industry event that not only focuses on the company itself but its partners and the key trends…
HP’s $1BN cloud push spawns hybrid platform for high-risk government data
Although Hewlett-Packard’s pledge to invest $1 billion in cloud services came two months after Cisco’s, a move that was itself a response to a similar commitment made by IBM back in January, it’s already…
Apple, home automation service providers expand reach + products
This week’s Smart Living roundup features ADT’s investment towards the development of a new security app, AT&T’s expansion of its Digital Life smart home platform into new markets, and the emergence of a new…