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Oracle updates cloud licensing policy, doubling costs for AWS users
Oracle Corp. has altered its cloud licensing policy in a way that means anyone running its software on Amazon Web Services could be charged double what they were paying before. News of the new policy comes by way of prominent Oracle blogger Tim Hall, who noted that under the previous licensing regime, AWS’s virtual central ...
U.S. consumers growing more worried about data privacy, survey finds
U.S. consumers are more concerned about the privacy of their personal data than before, and that makes them increasingly likely to switch to a rival firm’s services if they believe their data is under threat. That’s according to a new International Data Corp. survey published Monday. IDC polled 2,500 U.S. consumers on their privacy concerns in ...
MXNet, Amazon’s preferred deep learning framework, gets open source blessing
Amazon Web Services is hoping for a little open-source love to boost the development of its preferred deep learning neural network framework, MXNet. The cloud computing giant Monday announced that MXNet has been accepted as an Apache Incubator project, the first step on its way to becoming a part of the Apache Software Foundation. MXNet ...
Google launches its own root certificate authority to better secure the web
Google Inc. said last week that it’s planning to become an independent Root Certificate Authority, which means it would be able to issue its own communications protocol certificates for securing web traffic. A certificate authority is a trusted entity that issues electronic documents that verify a digital entity’s identity on the Internet. The electronic documents, ...
Struggling Toshiba to spin off its flash memory business into separate entity
Toshiba Corp.’s financial problems are forcing the company to spin off its highly profitable flash memory business unit into a separate entity. The Japanese firm is credited with inventing NAND flash, which does not need power to retain data, back in the 1980s. Toshiba said it plans to complete the process, which includes its solid-state ...
Google highlights enterprise-grade security measures of its KVM hypervisor
In order to convince enterprise customers of its cloud computing credentials, Google Inc. has provided a series of reports on the enhanced security features it employs to safeguard its hosted offerings. Earlier this month for example, Google produced a detailed white paper revealing how it protects its data center facilities with custom-designed security chips within ...
AWS launches Cloud Directory service for data management
Amazon Web Services’ Cloud Directory product is now generally available in its U.S. East, U.S. West, Australia, Ireland and Singapore regions. Amazon Cloud Directory is a developer-focused managed service for storing large amounts of strongly typed hierarchical data, the company said. It enables the creation of flexible cloud-native directories for organizing hierarchies of data along ...
A strong quarter sets up VMware to double down on networking and the cloud
Virtualization software company VMware Inc. pulled off another strong quarterly showing Thursday, beating Wall Street estimates for both profits and revenues and forecasting slightly better-than-expected revenues in the current quarter. On top of that, the company, whose software allows companies to use their data center computers more efficiently by allowing multiple operating software and applications to ...
D-Wave Systems has sold its first 2,000-qubit quantum computer for $15M
Quantum computing company D-Wave Systems Inc. announced Wednesday that its enormous 2000Q Quantum Computer is now generally available, and said has sold its first model for a whopping $15 million. D-Wave claims on its website that its systems are the “most advanced quantum computers in the world.” Its machines store information using “qubits,” which encode information using 0s, ...
In a twist, Ripper database aims to prevent scamming of cybercriminals
Cybercriminals are avoiding being scammed themselves thanks to the emergence of a new service called Ripper that aims to prevent fraud on underground cybercrime marketplaces. Ripper.cc, quietly launched back in June, contains information on more than 1,200 fraudsters who have cheated their fellow cybercriminals by selling fake login credentials, invalid payment card data or other items ...