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OpenOffice on life support, could be retired due to lack of developers
OpenOffice, the once-popular open-source alternative to Microsoft’s Office suite, is effectively on life support, and could be shut down altogether due to a lack of developers willing to update it. The revelation was made by Dennis Hamilton, vice president of Apache OpenOffice, a volunteer position that reports to its governing body the Apache Software Foundation’s ...
Microsoft launches Windows as a Service subscription plan
Microsoft is making Windows 10 available on a monthly subscription for enterprise users with the launch of Windows as a Service via its Cloud Solution Provider network. What it means is that businesses will be able to subscribe to the Windows 10 Enterprise E3 version at a cost of $7 per user, per month. “Windows ...
Enterprise workloads shifting quickly to the cloud
Public and private clouds currently host an estimated 41 percent of all enterprise workloads, and that figure will rise to 60 percent within the next two years as more enterprises embrace hybrid cloud infrastructure for emerging applications. 451 Research Inc. said in a newly released study of cloud deployment models that most enterprises will adopt ...
Report: HPE in talks to sell its software business to Thoma Bravo
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) is reportedly holding talks with private equity investment firm Thoma Bravo LLC over the sale of its software business, following rumors of a deal earlier this summer. The Reuters news agency cites unnamed sources as saying that Thoma Bravo is just one of a number of private equity firms to have ...
SAP Hana recast as on-ramp to data warehousing in the cloud
SAP SE is rolling out a major update to its Hana in-memory data warehouse that moves processing closer to data and gives customers an on-ramp to the cloud. The new offering – which will be available next week – can run both on-premise and also in the Amazon Web Services Inc. and SAP Hana Enterprise ...
Facebook launches Open Compute Project test lab to validate “big software”
The Facebook-led Open Compute Project (OCP) has stepped up its embrace of popular software platforms, including the latest release of OpenStack, container orchestration tools like Kubernetes, plus several other Big Data and block storage approaches that run on everything from containers to hybrid clouds. Facebook announced the opening this week of a new OCP hardware ...
Box’s Q2 earnings edge past market expectations
File sharing firm Box Inc. posted encouraging second-quarter results for its fiscal 2017, narrowly beating analysts’ estimates. The company reported an adjusted loss of 14 cents a share, which came in below Wall Street analysts’ expected loss of 19 cents a share. Box also sneaked past analysts’ expectations on revenue, reporting $95.7 million instead of ...
PayPal eyes a move to the cloud, and Google is said to be its top choice
PayPal Holdings Inc. is looking to outsource some of its IT to the cloud, and Google is at the top of its list of potential providers, according to a report from CNBC that cites sources familiar with the matter. The report states that PayPal is also considering other cloud vendors, but it makes very clear ...
HPE revamps Vertica & Haven OnDemand with advanced machine learning capabilities
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) has updated its Vertica analytics suite while introducing new machine learning capabilities to Haven OnDemand. Vertica is software that analyzes structured data, for example information that’s stored in rows and fields. But with the new update, Vertica 8, codenamed “Frontloader”, HPE has introduced a unified architecture as well as in-database ...
VMware enhances vSphere Integrated Containers with new capabilities | #VMworld
When Docker, Inc. containers first burst onto the scene a few years back, many saw the technology as an existential threat to VMware Inc.’s virtualization empire. But instead of trying to contain the threat, VMware did just the opposite embraced it instead. VMware first announced a preview of its vSphere Integrated Containers at last year’s ...