Cloud security on the rise, three major frontrunners
Investors will find strong opportunities in new cloud security companies, because companies often switch to cloud services, says Bloomberg. Okta, Zscaler and CrowdStrike, among others, are growing like crazy, and analysts suspect that this growth will continue for a while.
As companies continue t... Read more
Facebook forms research group for Natural Language Processing
Facebook will set up a consortium to tackle the challenges of Natural Language Processing (NLP). Realistic interaction between speech and computers creates quite a few obstacles, which Facebook wants to solve with this research collaboration.
Three months ago, Facebook distributed a number of calls... Read more
“Almost half the companies still use Windows 7.
A study by Kaspersky shows that SMEs and enterprise organizations often still use Windows 7. Approximately half of the participants in the study indicated that this was the case. Microsoft's operating system will no longer be supported in a few months' time.
The study shows that 47 percent of SME... Read more
New services announced for Dell Unified Workspace
Dell launches new components for its Unified Workspace product. This includes a collaboration with Google for the Chromebook Enterprise-laptops, about which we reported earlier, is part of this.
According to Dell, the laptops should make it easier for businesses to get seamless access to the clou... Read more
McAfee prepares for an IPO
McAfee would be preparing an IPO. According to Bloomberg's sources, this is a valuation of at least 8 billion dollars, which is equivalent to about 7.2 billion euros. In July, there were already rumours of an IPO, but then the company was only attributed a value of $5 billion.
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Dell Technologies Cloud updates focus on Kubernetes and Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure
Dell has announced a number of updates to the Dell Technologies Cloud at VMworld. The running of Kubernetes, among other things, is made possible by support for VMware PKS.
Dell will also support the hybrid cloud by combining VMware cloud software with Dell EMC's infrastructure. In this way, com... Read more
Open source project CloudState wants to make serverless more complete
Serverless technology is the way for developers to develop applications without having to think about hardware limitations. So far, however, serverless can only be used for functional programming, but CloudState wants to break this barrier.
CloudState is an open source project by Lightbend that s... Read more
Infoblox comes with cloud-managed DDI
Infoblox informs Techzine that it is introducing BloxOne DDI, a DDI (DNS, DHCP and IPAM) cloud solution aimed at networks of companies' branch offices. According to Infoblox, the increasing use of SaaS is a reason to improve the DDI infrastructure.
The aim of the service is to improve ease of us... Read more
Android app with more than 100 million downloads spread malware
The CamScanner app for Android included a so-called Trojan Dropper, a module that installed malware on infected devices. The Trojan Dropper was implemented in the app in an advertising library.
Ars Technica reports that CamScanner was a perfectly normal app for most of its lifespan. Among other t... Read more
Microsoft introduces Azure IoT features for spatial analysis
Microsoft has announced cross-Azure IoT collaboration. This should enable customers to make better use of location and spatial intelligence functions.
From now on, Azure IOT users can use Azure Maps spatial analytics (spatial analysis). In fact, this means obtaining data about the location of ... Read more