HP (quietly) snubs Amazon’s cloud in latest release

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	HP (quietly) snubs Amazon's cloud in latest release HP this week released the 13.5 version of its cloud platform, which is the software that serves as the basis for the company's public cloud offering. Toward the bottom of a note about new features, HP mentions something quite interesting: HP's cloud no longer inherently supports Amazon Web Service's cloud Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). It may not sound like a big deal, but it marks a strategic shift... Read More WEBCAST: SAP The Path to Big Data Register today to reserve your spot, Monday, December 17, at 11:00 AM CST, to hear from top IDC analyst, about the path you can start taking now to enable your organization to get the benefits of turning data into actionable insights with exciting x86 technology. Is the data explosion today a liability or a competitive advantage for your business? 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Microsoft to finally euthanize Windows RT WHITE PAPER: Kaspersky Build Your IT Security Business Case In this latest whitepaper from Kaspersky Lab, you'll find useful facts, examples and business case arguments to help you get buy-in and commitment from your business. Learn More. Obama is not allowed to use an iPhone due to security risks President Barack Obama acknowledged yesterday that he is not allowed to use an iPhone due to security concerns. Instead, the leader of the free world is relegated to using a "super-encrypted" BlackBerry device. Read More APT: The security attack everyone loves to hate Ever since the term advanced persistent threat (APT) burst on the public scene with Operation Aurora carried out against Google and other hi tech companies, allegedly by the Chinese, the security industry and media have flocked around this new type of attack. Many believed we made too much of it, that it wasn't that big a threat or that different than other security threats. Many thought that APT... Read More 6 agencies under DHS rule still using Windows XP: IG finds DHS cybersecurity holes The Department of Homeland Security, which is ultimately the agency responsible for battening down the hatches on U.S. Read More Electric car owner arrested for 'stealing' 5 cents of power Not since Arlo Guthrie found himself behind bars in the "Alice's Restaurant Masacree" has an alleged miscreant been locked up over so little: Demonstrating a shocking lack of common sense, police in Georgia recently arrested a man for "stealing" electricity from a school where he plugged his car in for 20 minutes during his son's tennis match. Read More Get ready for TX: Tester Experience In a recent discussion with some of my colleagues, we talked about the evolution from user experience (UX) to developer experience (DX) – the latter being increasingly important when building software components and APIs that are to be consumed by developers. Read More WEBCAST: HP and Intel® Xeon® processors HP 3PAR StoreServ Chalk Talk (June 2013 update) Learn about the June 2013 updates to the HP 3PAR StoreServ portfolio in this latest HP Storage ChalkTalk from HPStorageGuy Calvin Zito. Learn More How to shove 50 meters of optical fiber into a microchip The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency recently said its program to develop cutting edge photonics products has yielded two chips that can support long optical delays with low loss useful for a number of applications including wideband wireless systems, optical buffers for all-optical routing networks, and ultra-stable optical interferometers for sensing applications. Read More BlackBerry CEO's Open Letter to Enterprise Customers: The Word Cloud edition BlackBerry interim CEO John Chen issued an open letter to enteprise customers and partners on Monday. NW's John Cox has his analysis of it here. And here, for you enlightenmight, a graphical representation of what Chen highlighted in the letter. EMM, if you're wondering, is Enterprise Mobility Management, a relative of MDM, mobile device management. BES10 is the latest version of BlackBerry Enterprise... Read More Containers: The new Hypervisors Much of the growth in IT over the last 10 or so years can be attributed in some way or another to virtualization. They key to virtualization is the hypervisor. Whether open source such as Xen or VMware or even Microsoft's HyperV, the hypervisor has ushered in a revolution in IT. There would be no cloud and certainly no Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) without the hypervisor. Now some are saying... Read More Why openSUSE, Arch, and elementary each need a mobile distro Whenever a new Linux-powered phone ships, I get excited. New version of Android is available on a new handset? Excited. Maemo-powered phone (like the N900)? Excited. Ubuntu Phone and Jolla? Definitely very excited. This got me thinking about how much I'd also love to see an Arch-powered phone…or an openSUSE-powered phone. Heck, I think the elementary os guys would make a gorgeous phone system. In... Read More Rumored Microsoft CEO plan is a very bad idea Bloomberg reports that the Microsoft CEO search is coming down to the wire, and it's a race between Ford CEO Alan Mulally and Satya Nadella, currently president of the Microsoft server and tools division. That seems ironic, giving that Nadella's predecessor, Bob Muglia, had long been considered a candidate for CEO before he was pushed out. It just goes to show that division may not be sexy, but it... Read More WEBCAST: Attachmate Unlocking and Service-Enabling Legacy Assets Whether your strategy calls for full-blown SOA, quick-turnaround mobile applications, or anything in between, Verastream Host Integrator can help. Watch this six-minute product demo and learn the noninvasive way to encapsulate mainframe data and logic as reusable services. View Now! New life for Snowden the Snowman: Ultimate anti-NSA Christmas gift? A Sarasota, Fla., store owner unwittingly or not, might attract a few anti-NSA-related holiday purchases with this Snowden Snowman, which seemingly pays homage to Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents over the past year. Read More UC Business Case, SIP Trunks, and Enterprise SBCs Read More Three things we learned about the private cloud market this week Forrester analyst Lauren Nelson has spent the last 6 months taking a deep dive into the private cloud market - she compiled a list of 27 vendors to profile, then narrowed that down to 10 and took in-depth product demonstrations and conducted customer interviews for each vendor. She judged each of the 10 companies on 61 criteria that she came up with based on inquires she has received from clients,... Read More How to build the ultimate imaginary Linux distro Roughly a week back, I was at SUSECon, talking with a few fellow Linux nerds about all of the cool services and tools available for those that build their own Linux distributions. And this got me thinking. If I were to sit down, right now, and build a brand-new Linux distro... what tools would I use? What services would I utilize in order to create the best distro out there, and simultaneously make... Read More 2013 Tech Turkeys – Patrizio Edition All around the tech press, this publication and others, people are picking their lists of turkeys for the year, just in time for Thanksgiving. Well, how could I pass up the opportunity to participate in a similar undertaking, with an eye toward Redmond? The company is doing a few things right this year – dumping Xbox One DRM, dumping Ballmer, and dumping stack ranking - but it's made some missteps,... Read More Why do bad patents win? I will admit it. I was very disappointed to see that a Texas jury found Newegg liable for 2.3 million dollars in a case brought by TQP Development. TQP Development is a "non-practicing entity" or patent troll. It is an entity that exists solely to enforce claims for patents that it controls. Read More Microsoft to finally euthanize Windows RT Microsoft has made it semi-official: Windows RT will go away, eventually. It was a bad idea that never went anywhere, and now it looks like the company is giving up the ghost on this one. Word comes from Julie Larson-Green, the former Windows group head who is now in charge of Microsoft's devices unit. The Verge reports that during the UBS Global Technology Conference last week, she said: Read More
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