Companies Increasingly Replacing Servers With SaaS
Corporate IT management want to cut the number of servers they manage, or at least slow the growth, and they may be succeeding, according to new data. IDC expects that anywhere from 25% to 30% of all...
View ArticleBlackBerry On A Mission To Win Back Enterprise Customers
Newly appointed BlackBerry CEO John Chen is on a mission to restore the wounded company to financial health, largely by restoring faith in BlackBerry among corporate CIO’s and other traditional...
View ArticleBusinesses Want More From IT, Dissatisfaction Grows
Companies want to reduce spending on IT operations and infrastructure and shift resources to revenue-producing areas, according to two new studies. But businesses leaders and IT executives are also...
View ArticleCloud-savvy Bluetooth 4.1 Devices Coming This Year
Bluetooth 4.1, on track to be available by the end of the year, will directly connect devices to cloud services. Bluetooth is commonly used for wireless connectivity of mobile devices and PCs over...
View ArticleSanDisk Rolls Out Self-encrypting SSDs
SanDisk has officially released its first self-encrypting SSDs, a line of drives geared toward enterprise customers. SanDisk’s new X300s SSD uses both the Trusted Computing Group’s Opal 2.0...
View ArticleSAP To Slash Jobs As Part Of Restructuring Efforts
SAP is eliminating an unspecified number of workers as part of plans to restructure its overall skill set. Company spokesman Andy Kendzie would not provide the number of job cuts, which come shortly...
View ArticleGoogle Acknowledges Lack Of Diversity, Pledges Changes In Workforce
Google Inc shared the gender and ethnic makeup of its 50,000-strong workforce on Wednesday, disclosing a significantly below-average proportion of minorities and women employees that it said was...
View ArticleIBM New Training Program Results In Pay Cut For Enrolled Employees
IBM has started a new training program that will cut the pay of participating employees by 10%. According to an IBM internal memo dated Sept 12th. The memo sent to affected employees begins by telling...
View ArticleFrance’s Iliad To Decide On T-Mobile Bid In October
French budget-conscious telecom operator Iliad has set a mid-October deadline to decide whether to improve its bid for T-Mobile US or walk away as it faces resistance from seller Deutsche Telekom,...
View ArticleSprint Cuts Jobs At Its Headquarters, More To Follow
Sprint recently eliminated more than 400 jobs from its headquarters in Overland Park, Kan., an amount that equals about 6% of the 7,500 workers there. The company is expected to make more job cuts this...
View ArticleMicrosoft Announces Office 365 Video, Streaming Service For The Enterprise
Microsoft unveiled Office 365 Video, a YouTube-like streaming service where enterprises and large organizations can post in-house video content for communication and training. “Office 365 Video...
View ArticleWill We See Major Changes In Bluetooth 4.2?
Bluetooth 4.2 also uses new encryption and hash algorithms to protect wireless communications.
View ArticleGoogle Offering Domain Registration For $12 A Year
Google’s domain registration service has finally become publicly available in the U.S. starting at $12 per year, which includes features like domain and email forwarding. The service, still in beta,...
View ArticleCloud Analytics Growth Rate Seen Continuing For Years
It’s no secret that cloud computing and data analytics are both rapidly expanding areas within information technology. Put them together, and you get a winning combination that’s expected to grow by...
View ArticleMicrosoft Rumored To Be Interested In Salesforce Acquisition
Shares of Salesforce.com Inc spiked as much as 6.4 percent this week after a Bloomberg report that Microsoft Corp was exploring the possibility of bidding for the cloud software provider. Salesforce...
View ArticleEricsson And Cisco Join Forces In Network Partnership
Mobile equipment maker Ericsson and U.S. networking company Cisco Systems Inc announced that they have agreed to a business and technology partnership that should generate additional revenues of $1...
View ArticleIs Yahoo’s Internet Business Up For Sale?
Yahoo’s board may be mulling over the sale of its core Internet business, after an activist investor demanded last month that the company explore the sale of its core search and display advertising...
View ArticleHackers Stole Credit Card Data From 250 Hyatt Locations
Cybercriminals managed to compromise payment cards used at 250 Hyatt Hotels locations in around 50 countries after infecting the company’s payment processing systems with malware. Hyatt acknowledged...
View ArticleBluetooth SIG Prepares For The IoT
One of the key features that will give Bluetooth an advantage in this area is 'meshing', which is rolling out in the latest versions of the Bluetooth stack.
View ArticleSalesforce Acquiring Demandware For $2.8B
Cloud-based software maker Salesforce.com Inc that it will be acquiring Demandware Inc, whose software is used by businesses to run e-commerce websites, for about $2.8 billion. The deal will help...
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