Новости за 15.02.2016

Amazon Web Services has agreed to buy Nice, an Italian vendor of high-performance computing software and services to extend its as-a-service offering.

A quick intro to the cloud. In the beginning, there was no cloud and all software was on-premises and infrastructure sat on physical boxes. Then Jeff Bezos and Marc Benioff (Amazon and Salesforce CEOs, respectively) in their infinite wisdom invented software as a service (SaaS, in the case of Salesforce) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS, in the case of Amazon's Amazon Web Services business unit).

I have had the pleasure (or lack thereof) of using AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile all in a period of less than a year, and the experience has given me some first-hand knowledge about how the carriers are doing -- and what they're doing wrong. I first left AT&T for Verizon in 2015 because of AT&T's absurd pricing, $140 a month for my data plan and another $25 to $40 a line (though now that price has been cut by AT&T to $15 per line). So with five lines, I was paying about $280 a month, plus taxes and other fees. Читать дальше...

Enterprises today are investing in customer experience programs to accelerate revenue and growth rates by shifting the focus from a transactional sales relationship to that of strategic partners with shared success. This type of strategic approach requires a complete view of the customer and the business. However, many organizations struggle with departmental data silos, complex operating models and infrastructure challenges, making it extremely difficult to assemble a comprehensive, single view across all data sources. Читать дальше...

Under the best of circumstances, figuring out e-commerce ROI is challenging. Say you're running three ad campaigns and sales grow by 8%. Which campaign made the needle move? Did any of them? If you could go back in time and track sales from those identical shoppers during those days, what would they have done had none of those three ads run?

Microsoft announced a new Lumia 650 phone today, a mid-range model running Windows 10. It’s more affordable than the Lumia 950 and 950 XL I reviewed recently, running only $199, but it’s missing a few key features. Most importantly, it is not the Surface phone we really want.

No matter where you work, you don’t want to be told there is an “internal emergency” and you can’t use the computers, but that is precisely the situation at a Hollywood hospital which is a ransomware victim. The attacker demanded an exorbitant 9,000 bitcoin, which is roughly 3.6 million dollars, to unlock the computers.

A cyberespionage group of Russian origin known as Pawn Storm is infecting Linux systems with a simple but effective Trojan program that doesn't require highly privileged access.

Nikola Alic, a photonics research scientist at the University of California’s Qualcomm Institute in San Diego, argues that optical research offers the best hope for helping the Internet accommodate the ever-growing flow of multimedia services.

iOS 9 is pretty easy to use from the get-go, but dig around inside the mobile OS and you find many less obvious ways to get things done, so here are some tips for better Mail app use.

SAP has placed a big bet on Hana, so customers that haven't already switched to its in-memory computing platform can be sure they'll be encouraged to do so in the near future. If they're smart, they'll make sure they're ready.

A malware program for Android seen advertised on Russian underground forums in the last few months appears to have made its first big debut.

Augmented and virtual reality headsets could be the future when it comes to computing, but right now, navigating virtual worlds and interacting with applications is often a clunky experience.

Apple Watch at 29% discount: That’s what’s getting people’s attention this weekend—so what does it mean? The obvious answer is that the “Apple Watch 2” release date is near, so retailers are clearing stocks of the old models.

Software-defined networks can be a boon to savvy organizations, offering opportunities to cut administrative costs while increasing network agility. But SDN technology can also create security risks, and how you manage those risks can mean the difference between a successful implementation and a disastrous one.

You may have heard that Internet.org is a nonprofit organization launched by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and dedicated to bringing Internet access to people who can't access it, or can't afford it.

Teacher at this high school hits the warpath after she discovers that someone has walked off with the charger for her wireless mouse, reports a tech support pilot fish on the scene.

Apple has requested a court in New York to rule finally whether it can be compelled to assist investigators to break the passcode of an iPhone 5s belonging to a defendant in a criminal case.