IBM sales continue to decline, although profit is higher than expected
IBM's turnover continues to decline. IBM states that the purchase of Red Hat will yield substantial growth, but the company's sales have again declined by 4.2 percent last quarter. However, the profit was higher than expected, the profit rose 3.9 percent to 2.5 billion dollars.
IBM has been renewing... Read more
Israeli NSO Group claims to be able to steal data from iCloud, Google Drive and OneDrive
The Israeli company NSO Group has told its customers that its technology can retrieve data from users of the servers of Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft. That's what sources familiar with the sales pitch to The Financial Times say.
The NSO Group is a company that develops spyware for go... Read more
Gartner: Google’s cloud infrastructure is gaining ground
IT research firm Gartner reports that Google's cloud infrastructure services are becoming increasingly complete. As a result, the company is becoming higher and higher in the ranking of the newest Gartner Magic Quadrant.
The 2019 Magic Quadrant for infrastructure-as-a-service, published today, descr... Read more
Microsoft sees growth of Azure slow down in fourth quarter
Microsoft has had a very strong fourth quarter of its fiscal year 2019. The company even saw its market value exceed a trillion dollars (1ooo billion) again. However, we can see that growth in a significant part of the company is stagnating.
Several departments of Microsoft again saw strong growth i... Read more
Microsoft signs 2 billion deal with AT&T
Microsoft will provide a cloud infrastructure and productivity services to U.S. telecom operator AT&T. These services are part of a multi-year deal that both companies have announced today, says SiliconAngle. The agreement is worth more than $2 billion.
The announcement comes a day after AT&... Read more
Companies are getting shadow IT under control more and more.
Companies are increasingly working to tackle shadow IT, according to research by Duo Security, which is part of Cisco. The average number of organizations that protect cloud apps with their services has increased by 189 percent compared to a year ago.
Shadow IT uses public cloud services without the... Read more
Dropbox announces new integrations with audio, video and transcription tools
Dropbox is going to roll out integrations with certain tools such as Adobe Premiere Rush, Otter.ai, Simon Says, Videomenthe, Vidrovr and Curio by GrayMeta, report ZDNet. According to Dropbox, the users of these applications constitute one of the most active user groups of the service.
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IBM concludes billion-dollar deal with AT&T for cloud computing
A large part of AT&T's internal workload is transferred to the IBM Cloud, reports SiliconAngle. This is a billion-dollar agreement, as has now been confirmed. The deal would be valid for several years, although it is not exactly clear what the exact time span is.
The deal involves AT&T Busi... Read more
Eight million files leaked from Elasticsearch database
Eight million files are on the street due to a configuration error in the Elasticsearch database of AavGo, a cloud-based software provider for the hotel industry. The misconfigured database contained information about hotel guests and internal files of hotels, reports SiliconAngle.
Daniel Brown, a W... Read more
Microsoft wants to make Azure more reliable with new initiatives
The Azure cloud from Microsoft has a very high availability. Last year, the cloud service had an uptime of 99.995 percent. But that's not enough: CTO Mark Russinovich wants to further increase reliability with new initiatives.
Despite this high uptime, Azure had three unique and significant incident... Read more