Monthly Archives: September 2017
New Relic Pushes Boundaries of Application Performance Monitoring
NEW YORK—Application performance monitoring may not be as cool a buzzword as Kubernetes, but APM is just as important for companies making the move...
iPhone 8 Presents a Less Costly Option for Business Handset Buyers
During the over-the-top announcement of the iPhone X, which took place at Apple’s new over-the-top headquarters building, the new phone was repeatedly described as...
Quote-to-Cash CRM Provider Apttus Raises $55 Million in VC
Apttus, the Salesforce.com-based provider of automated quote-to-cash business services, revealed Sept. 13 that it has raised a $55 million in a Series E funding...
Bing Image Search Gets a Machine Learning Boost
Bing has not only grown some eyes, it has begun to learn how to use them.Microsoft's search engine has gained the ability to automatically...
Yelp Says Google Still Using Its Content in Violation of FTC Agreement
Yelp has accused Google of scraping photos of local businesses from Yelp's site and displaying them in Google's own local search results in violation...
Why GSMA is Launching ‘Case for Change’ Mobile Campaign
SAN FRANCISCO—It’s not like the mobile IT business sector needs a lot of public awareness. We already know we depend on mobile devices. You...
DHS Bans Federal Agencies From Using Kaspersky Security Products
The U.S. government banned any federal agency from using products made by Russian-owned and operated security firm Kaspersky Lab, concluding that the level of...
Microsoft Introduces New ‘Burstable’ Azure Cloud Instances
Microsoft has launched a new virtual machine (VM) machine option for cloud customers whose workloads aren't constantly running at full tilt but may occasionally...
Amazon, Google, Other Hyperscalers Drive Server Market
Hyperscale data center operators such as Amazon, Google and Facebook continue to drive the global server market and the original design manufacturers they largely...
Torvalds Wants Hackers on Linux’s Team Instead of Going to ‘Dark Side’
Today’s topics include Linus Torvalds wanting hackers to join Linux before turning to the “dark side”; an Apache Struts vulnerability being the potential cause...