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PREDICTIONS 2019
2019 security forecast: Cloudy and unsettled, with a chance of gloom
Back in April we asked 22 security experts whether we’re winning or losing the war against cybercriminals, and the consensus was almost unanimously negative. Not much has changed since then, and even the growing promise of artificial intelligence as a weapon has been blunted by the reality that criminals have access to the same tools. ...
PREDICTIONS 2019
The 2019 forecast for cloud computing: Up the value chain they go
The year just concluded may end up being remembered as the one in which the final barriers to widespread cloud adoption fell. Finally convinced that concerns about security and stability were more perception than reality, chief information officers flocked to cloud platforms with the rapid adoption of software containers paving the way. Containers make it simple ...
DEEP DIVE
Stormy weather: To stop cloud giants, some open-source software firms limit licenses
A heated debate has erupted in the open-source software world that’s pitting startups against cloud computing giants. The furor concerns, of all things, new licensing terms, which software companies are adopting to thwart what they believe is unfair competition from cloud providers in general and Amazon Web Services Inc. in particular. It’s the latest development ...
Adobe beats earnings estimates, but acquisition costs weigh on forecast
Updated: Adobe Systems Inc. today issued fiscal fourth-quarter results that initially baffled investors, who first bid shares up by 3 percent in after-hours trading but then sent them down more than 1.3 percent, wiping out gains made during regular trading hours. Update: Shares fell more than 7 percent Friday, on a day when the overall ...
KUBERNETES SPECIAL REPORT
Kubernetes’ sprawling ecosystem offers lots of choice – and risk
If your organization is ready to go all in on the Kubernetes orchestration manager and you’re looking for a way to package applications for easy deployment, you’ll probably gravitate to Helm, an open-source project incubating within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. But you may also want to check out Docker Compose from the company that ...
Dell to go public again as tracking-stock shareholders approve revised offer
Shareholders in Dell Technologies Inc.’s tracking stock cleared the way for the parent company to go public again this morning as they approved a revised offer that gives them control of Dell’s VMware Inc. subsidiary and pays a rich reward to founder Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners. Under the terms of the deal, Dell Technologies is ...
Looker raises $103 million to break out of crowded business intelligence field
Looker Data Sciences Inc. today said it has closed a late-stage financing round of $103 million, bringing its total funding to $280.5 million. This latest round should take the company through to break-even cash flow, an event that Chief Executive Frank Bien (pictured) said is likely within the next two years. The Series E investment round ...
Cloudera previews Kubernetes-specific machine learning platform
Cloudera Inc. today announced a preview of a new cloud-native machine learning platform that runs on Kubernetes, the popular orchestration platform for software containers. Containers are portable, self-contained software environments that include code and all dependencies to able applications to run reliably in multiple computing environments. The company said the new Cloudera Machine Learning platform will ...
HPE revenues grow again as a shift from ‘volume to value’ pays off
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today reported a loss for its fiscal fourth quarter, but blamed onetime tax charges and said actual profits rose by more than 50 percent from a year ago. The company also reported revenues and adjusted earnings per share that beat analyst expectations and maintained its full-year guidance for both the first quarter ...
‘Critical’ Kubernetes flaw enables attackers to gain administrative control
A recently discovered flaw in the Kubernetes orchestration manager can enable any authorized user to gain administrative privileges that could be used to steal data or bring down production applications. The same vulnerability can also be exploited by unauthorized users to inject malicious code. The flaw, which affects versions of Kubernetes higher than 1.10 and ...
