Nutanix introduces remote cloud management tools
Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) vendor Nutanix introduces three new tools; Foundation Central, Insights and Lifecycle Manager. These free tools allow IT administrators to remotely manage their entire cloud infrastructure.
Inspired by the current corona crisis that has made remote working mo...
Oracle, Salesforce and SAP prove that using co-CEO’s does not work
Two CEO's leading a company together, so-called co-CEO's. Oracle, Salesforce and SAP all went for it but recently decided to abandon the idea and go for just one CEO. SAP leaves the concept after just six months. Can we conclude that the concept of co-CEO does not work?
Too many cooks in the kit...
Schneider Electric and Scale Computing launch joint solution
Schneider Electric and Scale Computing have joined forces to bring to market a joint offer for retailers. The offer is aimed at making edge computing more accessible and affordable to help retailers optimise in-store functions and enhance customer experience.
Designed for retailers
The Scale ...
Microsoft launches Endpoint Manager
Microsoft has launched Endpoint Manager to improve consistency, unification and security around device management, and in doing so enable 'the modern workforce'.
Bringing together ConfigMgr and Intune
Microsoft’s Endpoint Manager brings together System Centre Configuration Manager (ConfigMg...
Workday to acquire Scout RFP for $540m
Workday will acquire Scout RFP in an all cash transaction for $540 million. The deal is expected to close by January 31, 2020 - the fourth quarter of Workday’s fiscal year.
Workday is a cloud solutions provider for financial and human resources. Scout RFP is a cloud-based platform for sourcing...
Google Cloud launches BYOIP across 20 regions
Google Cloud now allows users to bring their own IP (BYOIP) addresses to Google’s network infrastructure across all 20 available regions.
Google will provide public internet routing for customer IP addresses so they don’t have to be swapped out.
AWS and other cloud providers offer BYOIP c...
“By 2030, AI will have taken over 80 percent of management tasks.
Artificial intelligence (AI) will make about 80 percent of all project management office (PMO) tasks redundant by 2030. That's what analysts predict from Gartner. This includes tasks such as the collection, monitoring and reporting of data. Those tasks will soon be carried out by software, rather th...
MySQL vulnerability lets hackers steal sensitive information
There appears to be an error in the popular MySQL database management system. Which allows rogue servers to steal documents from users of the system. Sensitive information can just fall into the wrong hands because of a few minor mistakes.
The vulnerability was discovered by Security Boulevard and t...
HPE optimizes management portfolio for data centers from edge to cloud environments
HPE Pointext introduces a number of services that can change and optimize the operational capabilities of users of its managed HPE Datacenter Care portfolio from edge to cloud environments. In addition, these services should further simplify complex IT environments.
According to the supplier, it is ...
Red Hat optimizes its Enterprise Linux platform
Red Hat's new version of its enterprise open source Enterprise Linux platform is designed to help businesses and organizations better manage workloads across a variety of cloud environments. These are public, hybrid and multicloud environments, as well as bare-metal environments.
As if the recent ac...
MongoDB acquires mLab to enlarge Atlas database
MongoDB takes over mLab. It has deposited 68 million dollars for the acquisition and wants to grow its cloud services. The acquisition enables some interesting changes to the Atlas offering of the database giant. The acquisition must be completed by 31 January 2019.
In a statement, MongoDB states th...
IBM releases Multicloud Manager to manage different clouds
IBM has released a service for companies that use multiple clouds. The IBM Multicloud Manager can integrate hybrid cloud services and on-premise systems within a simple interface. This should make it easier for system administrators to manage and integrate workloads from various public and private c...