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Google open-sources its VSAQ security assessor for enterprises
Google wants to help vendors to better scrutinize their own security practices, and to do so its just lent its internal assessment software to the open-source community. Google says that it uses its Vendor Security Assessment Questionnaire (VSAQ), which is actually a collection of several “self-adapting questionnaires”, to assess the security risks associated with hundreds ...
Microsoft delays Windows 10’s “Redstone 2” update until spring 2017
Microsoft made a promise last year that Windows 10 will be the “last ever version” of its venerable operating system as it transitions to a Windows-as-a-Service strategy that’ll see it just roll out regular updates in a similar fashion to what Google does with Android. The first major update is slated for later this summer, ...
SUSE eyes private clouds with OpenStack Cloud 6
Open-source Linux purveyor SUSE LLC has just whipped up a new OpenStack offering, called SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6, aimed at making private clouds both easy to adopt and enterprise-friendly, with no risk of vendor lock-in. The latest version of SUSE’s OpenStack distribution is based on the stable OpenStack Liberty release, and offers a number of ...
Meet the “Internet of Things Architect”: The next big role in IT?
In demand data scientists could soon be a thing of the past, as the emergence of a new role in corporate IT circles looks set to take precedent as the new must-have addition to any executive team. Say hello to the “Internet of Things Architect”, or just IoT Architect if we’re going to be brief, ...
Google tempts devs with TensorFlow machine learning tech
Google is hoping to entice enterprises to use its cloud platform and machine learning technologies to build online recommendation engines for their websites. To do so, it’s just posted the following tutorial for a house-renting website that offers step-by-step instructions for developers looking to build an engine that can recommend homes to users based on ...
Mirantis advances pure-play approach in new OpenStack release
Pure-play OpenStack vendor Mirantis Inc. shipped out a major update to its distribution this week. Mirantis OpenStack 8 is based on OpenStack Liberty, the most recent stable release of the open-source cloud platform, which debuted last year. In its press release announcing the new release, Mirantis was keen to emphasize new features designed to enhance ...
MariaDB pulls announcement of major new release at last minute | Update: All is OK
Update 2:30PM EST: MariaDB told us this afternoon that the announcement was delayed in order to fine-tune the messaging and does not indicate any problems with the product. “General availability hasn’t changed at all,” said Lilia Shirman, interim chief marketing officer. “It’s going to be available at the end of the month. We realized there ...
Gartner: Most cloud ERP systems are doomed to fail by 2018
Enterprises that think they can escape the clutches of vendor lock-in by shunting their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) operations to the cloud are in for a very rude awakening, according to Gartner Inc. The research house has just landed a sucker punch with the claim that almost all cloud ERP projects are doomed to fail ...
Amazon lobs a reverse Snowball at enterprises
Uploading 100 terabytes of data to the cloud is extremely time consuming, expensive, and uses a hell of a lot of bandwidth. Amazon Web Services (AWS) believes that lots of people would like to use its cloud storage services, but understands that many of them balk at the time and expense that goes with uploading ...
Docker launches the Docker Cloud based on Tutum technology
Docker Inc. has launched a new Docker Cloud surface that’s built upon the technology it acquired when it purchased Tutum Inc. for an undisclosed sum in October 2015. When Docker purchased Tutum, the latter company had less than ten employees and its service was still being offered as a “limitless” free beta. At the time ...