News

September 15, 2017 15 Sep'17
Microsoft relationship driving partners into the arms of Citrix

Cross fertilization of each other's channel rosters has been one of the benefits of working more closely together on the cloud.
September 15, 2017 15 Sep'17
Low-cost Azure VM welcomes up-and-down workloads

A new member of the Azure VM family offers a deep discount in Microsoft's public cloud for applications that need to stay active, but mostly sit idle.
September 13, 2017 13 Sep'17
Experts criticize Equifax data breach response

Experts criticized the Equifax breach response as insufficient given the size and scope of the data loss, and said the company was likely not prepared for such an incident.
September 13, 2017 13 Sep'17
VMware expecting subscription licensing shift

The firm might be largely a perpetual licensing business, but the CEO expects that to change in the next couple of years.
September 12, 2017 12 Sep'17
VMware Cloud on AWS still a work in progress

VMware Cloud on AWS could push more companies to the public cloud, but the service is far from a finished product as more needs to be done to connect the two environments.
September 11, 2017 11 Sep'17
Rackspace acquisition: Cloud services firm to buy Datapipe

Rackspace's pending acquisition of Datapipe will let the combined entity manage a range of public and private cloud options, an increasingly important capability for enterprises.
September 08, 2017 08 Sep'17
HPE Pointnext grows with Cloud Technology Partners acquisition

Cloud Technology Partners, a Boston-based cloud consultancy, will become central to Hewlett Packard Enterprise's cloud practice, according to the vendor; other news from the week.
September 08, 2017 08 Sep'17
Credit bureau Equifax suffers massive data breach

A massive Equifax breach, which was discovered in July, exposed the personal information, including names, birth dates and Social Security numbers, of 143 million Americans.
September 08, 2017 08 Sep'17
Apache Struts flaw exploited in the wild

A researcher discovered a remotely exploitable Apache Struts vulnerability being actively exploited in the wild and a patch was released, users urged to update software immediately.
September 08, 2017 08 Sep'17
AWS hybrid cloud strategy steers into networking lane

AWS hybrid cloud architectures may start to lean on Application Load Balancer as the service can now be used to route traffic to the cloud or on premises.
September 07, 2017 07 Sep'17
Microsoft shops make strides in DevOps

Early adopters of DevOps embrace open source software, but enterprise Microsoft shops have made strides in 2017, as have Microsoft's DevOps products.
September 07, 2017 07 Sep'17
SHA-1 continues to prove insecure

Security researchers once again proved how easy it can be to recover SHA-1 hashes by cracking the hashes on nearly 320 million passwords related to data breaches.
September 06, 2017 06 Sep'17
Cloudian CEO sees favorable trends for object storage

Cloudian CEO Michael Tso notes favorable trends for object storage: Capacities are increasing to petabytes, and customers want to use different clouds for different workloads.
September 06, 2017 06 Sep'17
Coho Data succumbs to funding woes

After receiving $76 million to develop DataStream hybrid NAS arrays, Coho Data can't find more investors and falls into the storage startup graveyard.
September 06, 2017 06 Sep'17
Microsoft will give legal aid to its 39 Dreamers

Tech chiefs have spoken out against President Trump's plans to pull the plug on the US Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme. Now Microsoft's legal chief has promised to provide legal support to affected staff.