Many civil rights groups, trade bodies and companies, including Google, Amazon, Cisco Systems, Apple and Twitter, have filed briefs in a federal court to back Microsoft’s move to prevent the indiscriminate use by U.S. law enforcement of orders that force companies not to inform their users about...
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05 Sep 2016
Usually at large-scale vendor conferences, when the channel masses converge to take over an entire North American city, the focus lies with one leading visionary.
Generally, it’s the charismatic CEO issuing a much needed rallying cry, or perhaps the boisterous second in command cutting...
05 Sep 2016
The latest Google Chrome browser update comes with 33 vulnerability patches, including 13 that are high-severity. It’s all thanks to community contributors and bug fighters who submitted fixes for Chrome’s bug bounty program.
Many of the vulnerabilities fixed in this release were part of...
02 Sep 2016
Amazon Aurora is currently the fastest-growing AWS service!
As a relational database designed for the cloud (read Amazon Aurora – New Cost-Effective MySQL-Compatible Database Engine for Amazon RDS to learn more), Aurora offers great performance, effortless storage scaling all the way up...
02 Sep 2016
Google has dropped plans for a modular smartphone with interchangeable parts as it realigns its investments in the area of hardware.
While the company will not be releasing the Project Ara phone that was to have been easily customizable, it may bring the phone to market through licensing...
02 Sep 2016
Microsoft has expanded its bug bounty programs to cover the open-source .NET Core and ASP.NET Core application development platforms.
The .NET Core and ASP.NET Core technologies are used to create server applications that can run on Windows, Linux, and Mac. The ability to write code once...
02 Sep 2016
Although Windows 10's growth slowed in August, the one-year-old operating system didn't slam on the brakes as expected, according to data from multiple analytics sources.
The smaller-than-anticipated slowdown may signal the start of enterprise deployments, a move that would vindicate...
02 Sep 2016
Google has in the past abstained from recognising its cloud technology partners with any preferential designations, but Tuesday, Okta, an identity management vendor, secured an endorsement directly from the internet giant's cloud chief.
Diane Greene, the former VMware CEO who took the...
02 Sep 2016
Gartner states that “application delivery controllers are a key component within enterprise and cloud data centers to improve application availability, performance and security.”
They then state that “the market is in a state of flux, with a growing divergence between the needs of...
01 Sep 2016
The EC2 Spot Fleet model (see Amazon EC2 Spot Fleet API – Manage Thousands of Spot Instances with one Request for more information) allows you to create a fleet of EC2 instances with a single request. You simply specify the fleet’s target capacity, enter a bid price per hour, and choose the...
