Monthly Archives: March 2016
Google Gives Developers ‘Really Early’ Preview of Android N
In a somewhat unexpected move, Google this week gave developers what it described as a "really early" look at the next version of its...
Let’s Encrypt Free Certificates’ Success Challenges SSL/TLS Industry
Let's Encrypt hit a major milestone on March 8 by providing its one millionth free SSL/TLS certificate.The Let's Encrypt certificate service was first announced...
Hyperscale Environments Pressure Server OEMs
Hyperscale data centers continue to be the key drivers of growth in the global server market and the increasing influence of smaller system makers...
HPE Launches On-Demand Machine Learning-as-a-Service
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has joined a growing number of companies—such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, startups Nervana and BigML, Splunk and Salesforce—who see dollar-sign potential...
Microsoft Tackles Cloud Data Center SDN With SONiC
Microsoft is adding another piece to the software-defined data center puzzle for cloud providers.During this week's Open Compute Project (OCP) U.S. Summit in San...
Computer Sales Continue to Evolve Away From Desktop PCs, Says Report
Computer sales are not fading, but they are continuing to evolve from desktop PCs—which led sales trends for years—to a mix of laptops and...
Cisco Lights a Fire in Its Security Business
In 2013, Cisco acquired Martin Roesch's company Sourcefire for $2.7 billion, and since then Sourcefire's technology has become a foundation for Cisco's network security...
Microsoft Launches Cloud-First Dynamics AX ERP
Keeping its promise to release its cloud-first Dynamics AX enterprise resource planning (ERP) software in early 2016, Microsoft announced on March 9 that the...
Microsoft Extends Bing Image Search to Office Apps, Edge Browser
Today's topics include improvements to Microsoft's Bing image search for Office and Edge, news that the Microsoft SQL server database is heading to Linux,...
Plexxi Enhances Connect Open Integration Platform
Data center infrastructure specialist Plexxi announced the introduction of a suite of new product capabilities through its Connect Open Integration Platform.The new software integrations...