Monthly Archives: October 2015
Home Automation Market to Top $100 Billion by 2020
Consumer spending on smart home services, including entertainment, health, energy and home automation will reach $100 billion by 2020, well over twice the estimated...
New Malware Emphasizes Need to Train Employees to Be Cynical
I was working at my desk in the Advanced Network Computing Laboratory at the University of Hawaii 15 years ago when something struck me...
HP Adds Enterprise Features to Helion OpenStack Cloud Platform
Hewlett-Packard may be getting out of the public cloud business, but it's not getting out of clouds altogether.Instead, the company will use the resources...
Security Pros Want Automated Security, but Hesitate to Deploy It
While nearly two-thirds of security practitioners consider the analysis of device data for security to be very important to protect their networks, only 36...
Why Contributing to OpenStack Makes Sense for Vendors
TOKYO—At the OpenStack Summit here, there have been a number of common themes and questions that keep surfacing. Time and again panels are discussing...
Google Releases New Tools for Creating Metrics, Alerts From Log Data
Google has added new features to its Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging services in a bid to make it easier for IT administrators to...
Israel Opens Borders to Foreign Startups With Tech Visa Scheme
By Ben SullivanA new visa scheme aimed at luring startups to Israel has been introduced by the Israeli Ministry of Economy.The program will allow...
Rackspace Debuts Containers as a Service on OpenStack
TOKYO—Docker containers and the OpenStack cloud are getting a little closer today, thanks to the new Carina Containers as a Service announced by Rackspace....
Facebook Wants Its Developers to Feel the Slowness of 2G Speeds
Facebook knows there are millions of new users getting mobile devices every day in emerging nations, many of whom would love to use Facebook...
Oracle Connects Its Cloud to Equinix’s Direct Cloud Exchange
SAN FRANCISCO—As complicated as moving an enterprise to a public or hybrid cloud can be, there are Internet service providers that actually can hide...