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Despite public cloud being as popular as ever, questions like, ‘is it more secure than my data center?’ still remain.

Microsoft's Garage internal incubator has come out with a news feed on the iPhone targetting users' business information needs.

OpenStack has been something of a divisive topic since its inception a handful of years ago. Initially conceived as a cloud operating system that would allow service providers and large enterprise to build their own versions of Amazon Web Services, OpenStack's focus has changed somewhat in the years since, as it has tried to find a good fit. At the same time, huge amounts of money have been poured into the OpenStack ecosystem, with a plethora of startups being formed and funded to commercialize the OpenStack opportunity. Читать дальше...

Microsoft's latest attempt to square the circle of on-premises IT and cloud services, Azure Stack brings what Microsoft describes as a "cloud consistent" platform into the data center. "Cloud consistent" means that Azure Stack offers the same portal, management, and devops tooling as the Azure cloud service -- although it's not built on the same underlying software, but instead extends Windows Server 2016.

Health insurer Centene Corp. said six hard disk drives with personal health information on 95,000 of its customers have gone missing.

Sprint today said it is looking at new ways to add cell towers while still saving money, and is considering not renewing costlier existing leases with third-party providers.

Along with social, mobile and analytics, cloud technologies and models have earned a place as one of the core disruptors of the digital age. And while the cloud market has matured over the years, its interaction with the rapidly growing data and analytics landscape suggests there are plenty more disruptive opportunities for cloud in 2016. As 2016 gets underway, five insiders share their predictions for what 2016 holds in store for the cloud.

You shouldn’t have to explain why you still have a landline, either, though I will do so in a moment because explaining such things is part of what we do here.

Cast your mind back to the last time you were offline – not just when your connection was down, but a time when you were truly, unequivocally disconnected. That time may have been spent sending letters, physically going into a bank to make a deposit or withdrawal, and actually meeting with people to share information.

Back in October Walmart made a pledge to combat vendor lock-in to the cloud by open-sourcing its OneOps technology, and on Tuesday it made good on that promise.

Recent reports at 9to5Mac claim Apple plans to introduce a 4-inch iPhone 5se at its event on March 14. Would an iPhone 5se replace the entry-level $450 iPhone 5s, or would it be a full-featured, full-priced member of the iPhone family?

Microsoft today announced a technical preview of Azure Stack – a product designed to be an on-premises equivalent to the company's IaaS public cloud.

An anti-malware vendor has released a list of the 20 most infected cities around the U.S. in terms of malware, and the trend appears to be that cities not known for being technology centers are getting hit the hardest.

Startup SafeBreach automatically assesses corporate networks to find out whether they offer up enough security loopholes for real-world attacks to succeed.

Startup Cybric is working on a cloud-based platform to help businesses find out about breaches quickly and clean them up as fast as possible.

Big Switch Networks this week is seeking to build on its success by making its products free.

Building a high-speed brain-to-computer interface that would offer “unprecedented signal resolution and data-transfer bandwidth between the human brain and the digital world” is the goal of a new program announced by the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency recently.

The names Johnson Controls and Tyco International don't generate the kind of excitement buzzing around some companies in the Internet of Things, but the merger they announced Monday might have a big impact on that market.

As if the steady rise of ransomware isn’t alarming enough, businesses that get hit with ransomware may not be unlucky targets of opportunity, but targets of choice as cyberthugs are setting ransom demands based on how much valuable data a business has.

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Did you know you can store all of your photos in the cloud - for free? Of course there are caveats. Some services are ad-supported, or will compress your files. If that’s not for you, there are other services offering smaller amounts of free cloud photo storage with options of ad-free, paid plans for uncompressed photos and videos.

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Microsoft is releasing the first technical preview of its Azure Stack private cloud platform on Friday, which will allow customers to bring capabilities from the Azure public cloud into their own data centers.

Consumers should have the right to inspect the source code for connected devices they own, to ensure it doesn't contain bugs or backdoors, one U.S. Federal Trade Commissioner believes.

Around two dozen U.S. government departments and federal agencies are being questioned by the U.S. Congress on whether they were using backdoored Juniper network security appliances.

Google's Inbox email client now makes it easier to find a needle in an email haystack with updates the company made Tuesday morning.

10 lesser-known facts about Apple's product design

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