Monthly Archives: October 2014
SDN Startup Pica8 Garners $12.5 Million in Funding Round
Pica8, which has developed a networking operating system that officials say is designed to make it easier for organizations to embrace software-defined networking, raised...
ARM Develops Free OS for Internet of Things
ARM, whose chip designs are found in a broad range of smartphones, tablets, embedded devices and now servers, is flexing its software muscles with...
Americans Anxious When Disconnected From the Web
One in four Americans admit they wouldn’t survive more than five hours without using the Internet in their daily life, and more than half...
The Xen Vulnerability That Rebooted the Public Cloud
A proverbial lynchpin holds the world's major public cloud providers together, and that pin is the open-source Xen hypervisor. Amazon, Rackspace and IBM SoftLayer...
Microsoft Hopes Customers Forget the Past by Skipping to Windows 10
NEW YORK—The advent of Windows 10 took the press room at the Interop trade show here by storm. Partly because the show had reached...
Microsoft Invites ‘Insiders’ to Preview Windows 10
Microsoft has released pre-release builds of Windows 10 ahead of the operating system's expected 2015 launch.Beginning today, users can download Windows 10 Technical Preview,...
T-Mobile Rises to 3rd Place, Beats Sprint in Carrier Ranking
T-Mobile has moved into third place among the big four cellular carriers in the United States, while Sprint has fallen to the number four...
Cloud Security Management a Fragmented Affair
Nearly 80 percent of organizations need better visibility in order to unify security policy management across their on-premise and public cloud environments, according to...
Ruckus Wireless Expands Line of Smart 11ac ZoneFlex Access Points
Wireless infrastructure specialist Ruckus announced the expansion of its line of Smart 802.11ac ZoneFlex access points (APs) with the launch of four models.The expanded...
Daily Tech Briefing: Oct. 1, 2014.
Microsoft announced that it will skip over Windows 9 and jumping straight to Windows 10. Terry Myerson, executive vice president of the company's Operating...