Tag: Technology

The content below is taken from the original (AWS has a lousy hybrid cloud story. VMware might fix that soon), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. VMware and Amazon Web Services are reportedly about to stage a public display of affection. Fortune reckons the two have been […]

The content below is taken from the original (It’s time for Microsoft to revisit dated defaults), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. Sysadmin blog What works for 100 users frequently doesn’t work for 10,000. The same is true in reverse, however, there are far fewer vendors worrying […]

The content below is taken from the original (Edinburgh University to flog its supercomputer for £0.0369 per core hour), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. The University of Edinburgh’s supercomputer, Cirrus, is now being rented to businesses for their mega-performance computing needs. Cirrus is housed at the […]

The content below is taken from the original (Built.io launches an IFTTT for business users), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. With Flow, Built.io has long offered an integration tool that allowed technical users (think IT admins and developers) to create complex, multi-step integrations with the help of […]

The content below is taken from the original (CloudFlare shows Tor users the way out of CAPTCHA hell), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. CloudFlare has backed up its promise to get rid of the CAPTCHAs that Tor users complain discriminate against them. The content distribution network’s […]

The content below is taken from the original (HPE, Samsung take clouds to carriers), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. HPE and Samsung are getting together to give carriers a shove towards a more cloudy future. The two companies have announced a tie-up with a focus on […]

The content below is taken from the original (Kaleao’s KMAX ARM-based server has legs. How fast can it run?), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. Kaleao is a startup developing ARM-based servers and hyper-converged appliances under a KMAX brand. Its marketing-speak says it has a “true convergence” […]

The content below is taken from the original (Panasonic’s new prototype TV can hide in plain sight), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. Panasonic has shown off a transparent TV before, but the company has since improved the image quality to the extent that the idea of […]

The content below is taken from the original (Transforming Exchange Distribution Groups to Office 365 Groups), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. Microsoft says that it doesn’t recommend traditional email distribution groups (within Office 365) anymore. Although the company admits that Office 365 Groups can’t handle all the scenarios […]

The content below is taken from the original (Roll over Beethoven: HPE Synergy compositions oughta get Meg singing for joy), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. Comment HPE’s Synergy is, it thinks, the next great advance in servers and is far more capable than hyper-converged infrastructure systems, […]

The content below is taken from the original (Windows Server 2016: What’s in It for Small Businesses?), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. I examine if there are any features in Windows Server 2016 that might be worth SMEs upgrading for. In September 2015, I wrote in […]

The content below is taken from the original (Solar road tiles get their first public test), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. No, that’s not an elaborate new Lite-Brite kit– that’s the possible future of energy. After years of work (and some last-minute delays), Solar Roadways has […]

The content below is taken from the original (Solar road tiles get their first public test), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. No, that’s not an elaborate new Lite-Brite kit– that’s the possible future of energy. After years of work (and some last-minute delays), Solar Roadways has […]

The content below is taken from the original (Introducing Google Container-VM Image), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. Posted by Aditya Kali and Amey Deshpande, Software Engineers This spring, we announced Container-VM Image as a beta product under Google Cloud Platform (GCP). If you’re a developer interested in […]

The content below is taken from the original (LILEE Systems’ new fog computing platform is well suited to distributed enterprises  ), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. This column is available in a weekly newsletter called IT Best Practices.  Click here to subscribe.   Location, location, location! […]

The content below is taken from the original (Which is cheaper: Containers or virtual machines?), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. The emergence of application containers has come with questions about where this technology fits in the enterprise technology landscape, and more specifically how it compares to […]

The content below is taken from the original (What to do when hackers break into your cloud), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. There are two major types of public cloud computing attacks: single-tenant and cross-tenant. A cross-tenant attack is the stuff of IT nightmares, but it […]

The content below is taken from the original (Google announces eight new cloud regions, new support model), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. Google has announced a big expansion of its cloud, with new regions planned for Mumbai, Singapore, Sydney, Northern Virginia, São Paulo, London, Finland and […]

The content below is taken from the original (LXLE: A Linux distro to give new life to old hardware), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. I’ll bet that somewhere, perhaps at home and most likely at work, you’ve got some old hardware lying around. What to do […]

The content below is taken from the original (Microsoft adds SharePoint support to OneDrive), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. Quite a lot of news came out of the Microsoft Ignite 2016 conference, most of which we have already covered. But there’s more, as Microsoft announced a […]

The content below is taken from the original (Nano-scale mirror could be a breakthrough for optical computing), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. Using a mere 2,000 atoms of cesium, Professor Julien Laurat and his team at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris have created […]

The content below is taken from the original (Crusty Cat 5e/6 cables just magically sped up to 2.5 Gbps and 5 Gbps), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. The IEEE has approved the specification covering 2.5 Gbps and 5 Gbps Ethernet, 802.11bz. In particular, the approval signifies […]

The content below is taken from the original (10 tips for a successful cloud plan), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. How do you get started using the cloud? For some organizations, cloud usage has already begun by someone in the company – whether they know it […]

The content below is taken from the original (Using Google’s cloud networking products: a guide to all the guides), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. Posted by Mike Truty, Cloud Solutions Architect I’m a relative newcomer to Google Cloud Platform. After nine years working in Technical Infrastructure, […]

The content below is taken from the original (Why bots are poised to disrupt the enterprise), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright. The proliferation of robots completing manual tasks traditionally done by humans suggests we have entered the machine automation age. And while nothing captures the imagination […]