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Who Are the Real Winners in the Microsoft-Oracle Deal? Microsoft and Oracle announced a wide-ranging partnership deal in late June. At first glance, the logic behind it was fairly baffling. The agreement lets Oracle customers run its software-including Java, Oracle Database and WebLogic Server-on Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor, in its Azure cloud or on Windows Server.…
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Riverbed executive outlines how the company has put together a parcel of tools focused on improving IT resource performance. In an IT organization you’ll often end up with four silos, each of which has their own tools that do a great job of proving problems are not their fault. This is the CIO’s frustration. “I…
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Cloud computing proving to be a piggy-back industry Google Wednesday rolled out load balancing features to its public cloud service, allowing customers to automatically scale up and down virtual machines to accommodate unexpected spikes in demand. The rollout comes just a few months after Microsoft improved its Azure cloud service with new auto-scaling features. Both…
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61% of employees will work during vacation — some willingly and some (20%) because they’re asked to by a boss, client or colleague ‘Time off’ means different things to different people. For many employees, it means working during vacation. In a survey of 2,000 American adults, 61% said they plan to work while on vacation.…
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While she was looking online to buy a pressure cook her husband was researching backpacks. Armed men knock on their door. Hilarity ensues … So, there you are, at home, trying to decide which pressure cooker to buy while your spouse researches backpacks. A day or so later your doorbell brings … you open the…
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The applications, which may contain just a link to a website, can be hard to assess using automated analysis A steady stream of questionable applications is flowing daily into Google’s Play store for Android devices, according to security vendor Symantec. Over the last seven months, Symantec found more than 1,200 suspicious applications in the Play…
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The new economy puts you in the driver’s seat of your career. Can you handle it? We’ll show you how. The days of building a lifelong IT career at a single company are long gone. And now, the days of building a lifelong IT career just within the IT department are dwindling, too. Technology professionals…
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The Google Nexus 7 is dead, long live the Nexus 7 A big week for Android hardware, plus Google getting bullish on the tablet market, Sony promising a lot of Android 4.3, Play Games, security news and Samsung still talking about some imaginary friend called “Tizen.” The best way I can think of to describe…
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Yes, the latest Jelly Bean has gone public already, plus: the HTC One kind-of-mini, malware scares, and HP’s supposed Android phone In the same way that watched pots never boil, hotly anticipated Android versions often aren’t released when we think they should be. However, turn your back for a second and bang – suddenly Jelly…
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One Microsoft bull urges consumers to take a pass, even at that price Microsoft on Sunday slashed prices on its Surface RT tablets by as much as 30%, with the entry-level 32GB model selling for $349. The 64GB Surface RT was also discounted by $150, and now sells for $449, or 25% off its former…