Istio Gets a “Dramatic” UX, Debugging, Configuration Overhaul
Istio, the notoriously buggy and tricky to use open source services mesh platform developed by Google, IBM and Lyft, has had a “dramatic” overhaul for its latest release (version 1.3) its development...
View ArticleSalesforce Unveils “Manufacturing Cloud” – Mulesoft API-Powered SaaS
Salesforce says it has launched a new “manufacturing cloud” proposition, muscling in on a still largely greenfield sector that is hotly contested territory among the public cloud hyperscalers, which...
View ArticleMimecast Outage: Email Resilience Firm Suffers “Service Disruption”
Mimecast, a company that specialises in email continuity and resilience, said today it is suffering a service outage – and initially proceeded to point those affected to an updates page that was also...
View ArticleLatest Chrome Browser “Severely Degrades” Microsoft Cloud Services
Chrome 78, the latest build of the world’s most widely used web browser, “severely degrades” Microsoft cloud services, Microsoft warned today. Chrome 78 users are likely to find themselves locked out...
View ArticleMicrosoft: We’ve Fixed Issue of Windows 10 Slurping CPU
Microsoft today said the latest Windows 10 update fixes a issue that’s been plaguing a number of users: apparently random spikes in CPU usage. The update “addresses an issue that causes excessive CPU...
View ArticleStruggling Dropbox Aims for a Bigger Slice of the Enterprise Pie with New...
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View ArticleGoogle Rebuffed Again in Epic Java API Battle – Billions in Damages for...
"Petitioner copied 11,500 lines of computer code verbatim" The post Google Rebuffed Again in Epic Java API Battle – Billions in Damages for Oracle in Sight appeared first on Computer Business Review.
View ArticleWindows Virtual Desktop Lands: Should Your Business Consider It?
"The cost of this Azure infrastructure is largely the same if you were using RDS to deliver Windows desktops using 'desktop experience'" The post Windows Virtual Desktop Lands: Should Your Business...
View ArticleIntroducing Windows 10X: MSFT’s Containerised New OS
Microsoft has (partially) unveiled a unique twist on its operating system that it has dubbed Windows 10X – designed to run on dual-screen devices. Potentially confusingly, it appears that this won’t be...
View ArticleThe Hidden Costs of Windows 7 Retirement
"Organisations who purchase Windows 10 through MDOP (Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack) have an ace up their sleeve..." The post The Hidden Costs of Windows 7 Retirement appeared first on Computer...
View ArticleSUSE Kills Off its OpenStack Distribution, as Kubernetes Eats Its Lunch
If you’ve built your private cloud on SUSE’s OpenStack Cloud offering, you better start looking for alternatives: the German company says it is pulling the plug on the offering, just four months after...
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Microsoft Drops Another SSU: “Sweeping Changes” Coming?
Microsoft has pushed out yet another servicing stack update (SSU): code upgrades that in turn allow smooth security updates on Windows systems, and which are critical to effective patch management;...
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SUSE’s OpenStack Move is a Clear Reminder: Kubernetes Has Won the Cloud API War
Yesterday SUSE, the once Red Hat competitor, announced they were discontinuing their development and sales of their OpenStack-based offering, to focus on their Kubernetes-based one, writes CloudBees...
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Does Containerisation Spell the End for Virtualisation?
Virtualisation has enabled organisations to create IT services using resources that are traditionally bound to hardware, utilising a physical machine’s full capacity by distributing its capabilities...
View ArticleIBM Releases Open Source SDK that Plugs SAP into Watson
IBM has rolled out a new open source Software Developer Kit (SDK) that lets users call Watson services directly from ABAP code in SAP systems. The project’s lead developer, IBM’s Bradley Knapp...
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Software Patch Management: Tips, Tricks and Stern Warnings
Overstretched IT teams know it, pundits know, hackers know it: unpatched software estates are a tempting, hole-riddled Swiss cheese to visitors with bad intentions, and a recipe for Things Going Wrong....
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Full Life Cycle API Management: The Five Leaders Ranked
Google’s Apigee and Salesforce’s Mulesoft have pulled ahead of the pack in Gartner’s latest Magic Quadrant for full API life cycle management – one of the consultancy’s most requested reports, amid a...
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VMWare Updates Come with a Unique OS Swap…
Among a flurry of VMware updates this week, the company has dragged its syslog analytics tool, vRealize Log Insight, into the 21st century, ending restrictions that previously only let users export...
View ArticleAnother European SAP Specialist Snapped Up from the US
Less than eight weeks after the US’s Vision33 snapped up UK SAP Business One specialist B1 Systems, San Mateo-based Alfresco Software has moved to acquire Germany’s pernexas, an SAP specialist...
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Mimecast CEO “Very Sorry” for Persistent Outages – Blames Network/Firewall...
Mimecast has blamed a series of intermittent service disruptions over recent weeks on network/firewall issues and says it is urgently working on a permanent fix, with the email resilience provider’s...
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