Monthly Archives: March 2018
Microsoft Officially Launches Azure Databricks Analytics Service
Months after initially announcing Azure Databricks in November 2017 at the Connect 2017 conference in New York City, Microsoft officially made the cloud service...
Facebook’s Not That Complicated–Just Pay More Attention
Facebook may be known as The Social Network, but it’s really nothing more than a glorified media channel—like clicking the TV remote, only with...
Salesforce Acquires Mulesoft for Integration Cloud Infrastructure
Today’s topics include Salesforce acquiring MuleSoft to start its own integration cloud and IBM building a Power9 ecosystem to compete with Intel. On March 20,...
Envoy CNCF Project Completes Security Audit, Delivers New Release
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has begun a process of performing third-party security audits for its projects, with the first completed audit coming...
Staffing Shortages Threaten to Impair Mainframe App Efficiency
Staffing Shortages Threaten to Impair Mainframe App Efficiency
Not only is the mainframe alive and well, it runs more than one-half of business-critical workloads for...
Unauthorized Cryptocurrency Mining Surged in 2017, Symantec Reports
Unauthorized Cryptocurrency Mining Surged in 2017, Symantec Reports
In its tracking of attacks over the course of 2017, Symantec saw a lot of different types,...
Atlanta Hit by Ransomware Attack Impacting Multiple Services
The City of Atlanta is the latest victim of a large-scale ransomware attack, though it could have been worse without the cloud, according Atlanta's...
Google Commits $300 Million to Fight Fake News, Aid News Organizations
Google will spend $300 million over the next three years on various initiatives to help news organizations sustain business growth and drive quality journalism. Under...
Nimbus Data Previews World’s Largest (100TB) Solid-State Drive
Flash drive maker Nimbus Data may be a smaller storage provider than such major players as SanDisk/WD, Samsung and Toshiba, but it is now...
Microsoft Releases Windows Server 2019 Test Build
Windows Insiders, folks who are enrolled in Microsoft's early-access and feedback program, can now get their first peek at how Windows Server 2019 will...