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Microsoft Now Alerting Users To State-Sponsored Attacks
Microsoft is changing its policy after a Reuters report revealed that the company didn't alert users under similar previous circumstances.
Software Licensing Audits: Is Your Company Prepared?
Software licensing audits can cause minor annoyance or excruciating pain, depending on their scope and how ready your enterprise is for the disruption and expense. We take a look at trends in software licensing audits and the ways they impact your IT organization and your business.
Algorithms: Turning Data Into Products
Everybody talks about algorithms, but do you know what they are? We take a closer look at the origins of the word algorithm, what it means for business today, and how companies such as Google and Airbnb use them.
Top Priorities For State CIOs: 2016
State government CIOs face many of the same challenges that private sector IT executives do, such as updating systems for a digital world, securing those systems, and leveraging big data. Here are their top 10 priorities, according to NASCIO's annual membership poll.
CIO's Guide To Creating Sound Software Contracts
Software negotiations often pit a customer against a supplier, each focused on his or her own best interests. To craft a sound deal, CIOs need to understand where potential contract potholes lie and steer around them. Here's what you need to know.
Red Hat Closing In On $2 Billion In Its Fourth Quarter
Red Hat finishes 2015 on a strong financial note, with OpenShift 3.1 positioned as its next-generation cloud application development platform.
Tech Fail Forecast: Bursting The Next Bubble
Fifteen years after the dot-com bubble burst, industry pundits are calling out similar signs of froth in the current tech boom. Here are nine tech ideas, products, excesses, and business models that we expect to look back on in 15 years and ask: "What were we thinking?"
Microsoft's 2016: More Windows 10, Hardware Advances, Research Gains
Microsoft's New Year resolutions are expected to include gains in the PC market, new Surface Phone, and advancements in HoloLens, Microsoft Research, cloud and security.
Oracle Acquires StackEngine, Couchbase Updates Server: Big Data Roundup
This week, we've got an Oracle acquisition, an update from Couchbase, insight into how CFOs view analytics, and data-driven advice on when it's best to say "Merry Christmas" rather than "Happy Holidays" or "Season's Greetings."
Outlook Getting Smarter, Surface Hub Delayed: Microsoft Roundup
Microsoft this week announced smart capabilities arriving for Outlook in 2016, a new security policy, and a Surface Hub delay along with a price increase.
Microsoft's 2015 Acquisitions: Mobile, Analytics, Security
Microsoft bought a lot of companies during 2015. What were they, and what did they bring to the tech giant?
Microsoft Buys Talko Messaging App From Ray Ozzie
Microsoft will acquire messaging startup Talko from its former exec Ray Ozzie, but he won't be rejoining the company.
Priv Sales Help Boost BlackBerry's Sagging Fortunes
BlackBerry's latest financial report reflected a smaller quarterly loss and first revenue gain in over two years.
Cloud Foundry Launches Cross-Vendor Cloud Service Certification
Cloud Foundry aims to become the cross-vendor platform for producing the next generation of applications with new cloud supplier certification.
Fighting Evil AI, IBM Opens Watson IoT HQ: Big Data Roundup
Elon Musk invests in AI to benefit humanity. Microsoft is acquiring SQL queries for all data by all users. IBM is connecting Watson with IoT via APIs. All of those and more in our Big Data Roundup for the week ending Dec. 20.
Windows 10 Build Released, HoloLens Showcase: Microsoft Roundup
This week brought the first Redstone build for Windows 10, Office app updates for Android, and a HoloLens developer experience at the Microsoft NYC store.
Microsoft Acquires Analytics Insights Startup Metanautix
Microsoft is acquiring an analytics SQL query startup founded by an ex-Google engineer and an ex-Facebook engineer. Metanautix enables the creation of software-defined data marts.
Windows 10 Now Ready For Chinese Market
Microsoft and the government of China have come to a new agreement that will bring Windows 10 to the Chinese market. However, this version of Windows will conform to certain state demands.
Oracle Touts Cloud Revenue Growth In Tough Second Quarter
Oracle said that global currency pressure had a negative impact on its total revenues and net profit, which were down for its second quarter. Executives put the focus on the company's relatively small but fast growing cloud revenue instead, at a time when Oracle is moving from its traditional on-premises business to a hybrid cloud approach.
User Groups Matter To Vendors: Here's Why
InformationWeek recently interviewed three vendor executives who spend their professional lives building and sustaining business-oriented user groups. Here's what we learned about this symbiotic relationship.
Intuit CIO: Changing The Way Projects Are Managed
Intuit's IAC project has brought data together from all over the company. The insight provided is changing the way the company sees its products and customers.
IBM, Apple Deliver 100-Plus Enterprise iOS Apps
IBM announces that its partnership with Apple has yielded more than 100 IBM MobileFirst for iOS apps.
Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts: Pros And Cons
If you're a bit confused by what a dedicated host cloud service can do for you, rest assured you're not alone. We'll help you figure out when your IT department should choose to deploy dedicated hosts.
Dell To Sell Perot To Finance EMC Deal, Reports Say
The $67 billion deal between Dell and EMC is on track for approval. However, Dell needs to finance the acquisition, and it may sell its Perot Systems division to raise $5 billion, according to several reports.
Google Begins Alpha Testing Its CDN For Cloud
Google announced the alpha testing of its own Content Delivery Network for the company's cloud computing platform. Google's CDN offering is a direct response to similar services from AWS and Microsoft Azure.
Microsoft Bing Pulse Rebranded As Microsoft Pulse
Customer engagement platform Bing Pulse has been rebranded Microsoft Pulse, a service that integrates with products like Power BI and Skype for Business.
IBM's Watson Taps APIs, Learning Centers For IoT Expansion
IBM has released several APIs and opened a new global headquarters for its Watson IoT effort. Here's an update on the company's cognitive computing plan to use Watson to analyze IoT data.
How Cloud, APIs Are Transforming Outsourcing
As traditional software outsourcing evolves, cloud service management brings new challenges for organizations.
Hiring Top Data Scientists, Gaming The Office Gift Exchange: Big Data Roundup
Hadoop distribution companies MapR and Hortonworks are taking real-time streaming one step further than before. MongoDB landed a board member from cloud giant AWS. Find out how to game your office holiday gift exchange. Catch the Big Data Roundup for the week of December 13.
Google's Cloud SQL Update Promises More Flexibility, Faster Speed
Google says that the latest version of its Cloud SQL is more than seven times faster, and can scale better, than the previous generation.
Google For Work Now Boasts Gmail Data Loss Prevention
Google for Work customers now have an extra layer of protection against the distribution of sensitive content over Gmail.
Amazon Offers 'Feature-Rich' Active Directory As A Service
Amazon adds an enterprise version of Microsoft's Active Directory in its EC2 cloud as a managed service to appeal to enterprise users.
Microsoft Releases Cortana On iOS, Android
Microsoft has launched Cortana, its personal digital assistant, as an app for iPhone and Android devices.
IBM Security Analytics Platform Now Open To Developers
The IBM Security QRadar analytics platform is now open to developers, enabling them to build custom apps. The company also launched the Security App Exchange, a marketplace in which the security community can create and share apps.
IBM Sells Grocery Store Chain On SoftLayer Cloud
Giant Eagle selects IBM for cloud service, primarily due to availability of bare-metal option for legacy IT systems.
Gartner Magic Quadrant: Top Tools For Cleaning Up Your Data
Seven companies make it into the Leaders quadrant in the Gartner Magic Quadrant report for Data Quality Tools 2015. See who's in, and why the research firm considers them ahead of the competition.
Windows 10, New Devices, Exec Shakeup: Microsoft's 2015
Microsoft kicked off 2015 with Windows 10, and the updates surrounding hardware, Office, mobile, and cloud continued to snowball throughout the year. Here's a look at 10 notable Microsoft moves in 2015.
IBM's Swift Sandbox Lets Coders Try Apple's Programming Language Easily
IBM announced its free, browser-based Swift Sandbox, which lets developers write in Apple's programming language and execute their code in a server environment -- on top of Linux.
BlackBerry: 8 Ways It Can Be Saved
BlackBerry continues to underwhelm. Here are eight ways CEO John Chen can turn things around.
HoloLens App Contest, Surface Phone Rumors: Microsoft Roundup
This week brought a wealth of updates on HoloLens, Windows 10 IoT, Dynamics CRM 2016, Outlook features and Microsoft's mobile strategy.
Apple Swift Programming Language Is Now Open Source
Swift is the programming language for Apple software going forward. And with its release under the open source Apache 2.0 license, it becomes a potential vehicle for crafting applications that run on Android, Linux, Windows, and other operating systems.
Steve Ballmer: Microsoft Mobile Strategy 'Won't Work'
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer thinks Windows Phone should run Android apps and the company should be more open about cloud earnings.
File Sync & Share: When Worlds Collide
Files stored both on-premises and in the cloud require one cohesive file management system. This is contrary to what most organizations are using, and IT is stuck in the middle.
Microsoft Wants Your HoloLens Ideas
Microsoft has launched a contest to find its next HoloLens app idea. The winner will be involved in the process of seeing their app become reality.
Adobe Flash: Death By 1,000 Cuts
Adobe's Flash Professional next year will be called Animate CC, and it will focus on creating HTML5 content.
Microsoft Integrates Cortana, Power BI
Microsoft is making the connection between Cortana and Power BI available for public preview starting Dec. 1.
Nokia OZO VR Camera Available For $60,000
Virtual reality moves a little closer to the mainstream with the launch of Nokia's $60,000 OZO virtual reality camera.
Microsoft PowerApps: Software Creation Without Coding
Microsoft has introduced PowerApps, designed to bring fast development to business applications and letting users create their own apps without having to write a single line of code.
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