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Amazon shifts the cloud battleground to South Korea
It doesn’t take more than a passing glance at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) case studies page to understand the reasoning behind the latest addition to its global expansion course. Featured prominently at the top row is Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., one of the several big-name South Korean companies that rely on the public cloud ...
IBM wants to bring Dev and Ops together with new API matchmaker
Given the billions of dollars that IBM Corp. has spent on making its public cloud a more attractive place for developers to run their applications, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that it’s also taken an interest in the programming interfaces through which those applications interact. The company is debuting a new service today that ...
Dropbox taps Vera to keep files secure even after they move off its platform
The rapid growth in the amount of data moving outside the corporate firewall represents only the start of CIOs’ security woes. The real problem emerges when a worker downloads sensitive documents from their cloud locker without permission or makes a folder accessible to an unvetted third party, which creates an opening for hackers to move ...
Nadella delivers another shocker as Microsoft embraces Red Hat in cloud alliance
Whatever doubts that still remained about Microsoft Corp.’s commitment to open-source software among the developer community until this morning have been banished by its announcement of a broad partnership with Red Hat Inc. to jointly promote their respective cloud offerings. That includes first and foremost the latter’s Linux distribution, the single biggest rival to Windows ...
Pivotal Cloud Foundry gets .NET support as Microsoft ties deepen
The aftershocks from Microsoft Corp.’s decision to release its .NET development framework under an open-source license last year have finally reached Pivotal Inc., which added support for the project to its commercial Cloud Foundry distribution this week. The move expands the appeal of the application platform to millions of additional software engineers in the Windows ...
Authentication unicorn Okta takes its single sign-on service beyond mobile
As business users continue to shift more and more of their work to mobile devices, Okta Inc. is taking an unexpected turn against the flow and extending its popular authentication service to the workstations that have dominated traditional office life. The new support for Windows and Macs is accompanied by the addition of interoperability with applications ...
Former Apple CEO John Sculley’s firm swoops up the last remains of eBay Enterprise
It’s not everyday that news from the customer relationship management segment make such big headlines. Zeta Interactive Inc., the sales automation provider co-founded by former Apple Inc. chief executive John Sculley, has acquired eBay Inc.’s CRM platform in what marks the official conclusion of the online auctioning giant’s exit from the enterprise technology market. The ...
MongoDB 3.2 gets an in-memory storage engine
For all its potential to improve query performance and reduce latency, in-memory processing has received relatively little attention in the database world beyond traditional relational systems like SAP SE’s HANA. But that is about to change. MongoDB Inc. officially joined the fray this morning with the introduction of an in-memory storage engine for its popular ...
Dell reportedly eyeing 2016 IPO for EMC’s Pivotal
As EMC Corp. prepares to move off the stock exchange in order to join up with the privately-held Dell Inc. as part of the record-breaking $67 billion merger they announced last month, its fastest growing division appears to be headed in the opposite direction. Well-placed insiders have leaked word that the companies intend to sell a ...
HP split is now finally official
After nearly 58 years under the same stock symbol, the companies that until last week made up the two core businesses of Hewlett-Packard Co. began trading as separate entities this morning. The split of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Inc. and HP Inc. marks the conclusion of a complicated organizational maneuver that traces its origins long before ...
