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The latest release of Red Hat's OpenStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud focuses on using open-source OpenStack to bridge the gap between private and public clouds.
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VMware ready to release new OpenStack cloud program
VMware's heart is proprietary, but to to deliver its functionality to customers, it uses open-source OpenStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud.
Lowering TOC with single-socket AMD EPYC processors
Huge savings await those who embrace single-socket servers, and not just in terms of reduced power consumption and lowered cooling costs.
Australian Department of Health using blockchain for medical research records
Australian secure cloud provider Vault Systems and blockchain startup Agile Digital have combined forces to provide the department with an immutable record for tracking health data research.
One in four APAC firms not sure if they suffered security breach
A quarter of Asia-Pacific companies have experienced a security incident, while 27 percent aren't even sure because they haven't conducted any data breach assessment--even as the region is estimated to have lost US$1.75 trillion last year due to cyberattacks.
Shareholders approve AC3's AU$24.7m Bulletproof takeover
The companies need to clear one final court hurdle before Bulletproof ceases trading on the ASX next Friday.
Cloud computing policy
This policy provides guidelines for secure and effective cloud computing operations to ensure the integrity and privacy of company-owned information. From the policy: The list of advantages to cloud computing...
Rackspace buys RelationEdge, adding SaaS services to portfolio
RelationEdge, a Salesforce Consulting Partner, will help Rackspace bolster its growing IT-as-a-Service portfolio.
Zendesk rolls out new products for more integrated customer service
Zendesk Suite provides omnichannel support while Zendesk Connect uses data to provide more proactive, personalized service.
Cisco critical flaw warning: These 10/10 severity bugs need patching now
Cisco's software for managing software-defined networks has three critical, remotely exploitable vulnerabilities.
Optus doubles NBN customers as mobile subs hit 10 million
Optus now has 453,000 NBN customers and more than 10 million mobile subscribers, with CEO Allen Lew telling ZDNet that the telco is also examining the 3.6GHz spectrum band for possible 5G use.
Salesforce: we want more user success stories in Brazil
The company wants to create a sense of urgency around digital transformation investment among local buyers.
What is Microsoft 365? Microsoft's most important subscription bundle, explained
Microsoft 365 is becoming a centerpiece of Redmond's cloud strategy. Here's everything you need to know about what it is and how it's evolving.
Okta, BetterCloud forge integration pact
BetterCloud, which offers a SaaS operations management platform, launched a connector for Okta.
Pawsey gets new GPU nodes to bolster AI capability
A year after launching Nimbus, the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Western Australia has announced the cloud service's expansion.
Amazon Sumerian now generally available
Amazon Web Services' Sumerian is now generally available to developers. The effort is a bet that AR and VR apps will utilize browser-based tools.
Cloud services: 24 lesser-known web services for your business to try
In this guide, we've spotlighted 24 cloud-based services that can take your business to the next level. There's a huge world of opportunity and available resources beyond Google, Dropbox, Salesforce, Amazon, and Microsoft.
Research round-up: Cloud computing, IoT and cybersecurity, iPhone X and more
12 graphs which explain the tech news of the last month.
The dumbest passwords people still use
Everybody knows that 12345 is a bad password. But what they're using instead isn't much stronger
Photos: Inside vast abandoned mine set to be world's biggest data center
Norway's newest white-space data center has opened in a former mine. Lefdal Mine Datacenter could become the world's largest once of three of its five levels are filled.
Image tools for better online engagement
Make your posts more engaging and encourage more clicks and comments with these image-editing and graphics tools.
Internet of summer things for geeks
Breeze through the hot summer with these IoT-enabled devices and sensors, all controlled from your smartphone.
Azure HDInsight click-by-click guide: Get cloud-based Hadoop up and running today
Click by click, we'll show you how to get Microsoft's Apache Hadoop-based big bata service up and running.
Hands-on with Azure Data Lake: How to get productive fast
Microsoft's Azure Data Lake is now generally available, but what does it do, and how does it work? Here's a tour around the service's tooling and capabilities, to help you understand it and get productive with it, quickly.
The 10 scariest cloud outages (and lessons learned from them)
With more businesses and applications moving data to the cloud, even small outages can be devastating. By studying the worst cloud fails, we can find clues to avoiding future problems.
Photos: Zuckerberg offers glimpse inside Facebook's cavernous Arctic datacenter
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has shared a series of pictures from the social network's datacenter site up near the Arctic Circle in Sweden.
The 25 biggest events in Linux's 25-year history
A year by year summary of the most significant events in Linux's history to date.
Rio Olympics: the technology numbers
The most recent Summer Olympiad staked its place in history as the competition with the highest levels of digital engagement than any previous Olympic Games. We look at some of the key technology numbers behind the Rio events.
These 20 essential applications let you move easily between Windows and a Mac
Many professionals find themselves working on both Macs and PCs. If your work requires you to jump back and forth between Windows and Mac systems, here are some apps that will make your life easier.
Top 10 apps: These boast the most downloads so far this year
Survey Monkey has released its list of the most popular downloaded apps in the US on iOS and Android for the first six months of 2016. Pokemon Go was released in July so did not make it here.
A tour of IBM's cloud brokerage software cloudMatrix
IBM is betting that its cloudMatrix software will enable it to make a pivot from a systems integrator to a services integrator.
European airline Ryanair moves all of its data infrastructure to AWS
Machine learning is key to a new Amazon cloud migration project, which will mean Ryanair closing most of its data centers.
Cloud buddies: NetApp's partnership with Google comes with big ambitions
With its latest cloud partner, NetApp says it's becoming "a data authority in a hybrid cloud world"
Alibaba's cloud business soars: $2.1billion in 2018
The company's cloud revenue is accelerating as it dominates infrastructure as a service in China.
Cloud computing: Limited progress on multi-cloud strategies
Most companies will have more than one cloud provider, so why do they struggle to evaluate them?
Why buying Fitbit could be a sensible move for Google
Fitbit has a solid transformation strategy and a good plan to be integrated into the healthcare system. What it lacks is time as it swaps a hardware model for one that revolves around software and services.
AWS traffic hijack: Hackers used Russian IP address to empty Ethereum wallets
Criminals pulled off a brazen attack using weakness in core internet infrastructure.
Alphabet Q1 revenue beats targets
Google's parent company reported Q1 net income of $9.4 billion, with non-GAAP earnings of $13.33 per share on revenue of $31.1 billion.
Why the cloud is tailor made for many US government IT projects
At RSA 2018, Katie Lewin, Federal Director at Cloud Security Alliance talks to Jason Hiner about why the cloud is tailor-made for the massive and intermittent IT projects of the US government.
Lenovo begins testing Windows AutoPilot
Lenovo officials said they're now testing Windows AutoPilot with select early-adopter customers, while general availability for its large enterprise users will happen 'in the coming months'.
Telegram drags Google, Amazon cloud services into Russia privacy battle
Russia's quest to stop encrypted messaging app Telegram also blocks thousands of Amazon, Google addresses.
NextDC seeking AU$281m for three new datacentre sites
The three sites -- which would be known as S3 in Sydney, M3 in Melbourne, and P2 in Perth -- would give the company an extra 180MW of capacity.
Smartphones: Is there any innovation left?
In this fascinating video roundtable, ZDNet's David Gewirtz, Jason Perlow, and Adrian Kingsley-Hughes sit down to discuss the future of the smartphone. It's not what you may think.
Cloud spending surges but customers wary of 'lock-in'
A small set of vendors are swallowing a bigger chunk of cloud computing spending.
Australian public cloud spend to hit AU$4.6b this year: Gartner
Australian spending on public cloud services will reach AU$4.6 billion in 2018, says Gartner -- an 18.5 percent increase over 2017.
Public server: Stockholm plans to pipe wasted data center heat into homes
The data center's heat exchangers are being linked up to the city's heating network.
Hands-on with the Thinkware F800 Pro: A dash cam that does everything you need
I was wowed with the F800 Pro dash cam from Thinkware within minutes of using it.
Densify review: Take control of your public cloud spending
Densify is a capable and affordable cloud optimisation service, suitable for any company struggling to get to grips with its expenditure on public cloud services.
Visio Online, First Take: Web-based diagramming with basic options
Visio Online is useful, but at this stage it's clearly a companion for the desktop software. Power users will want to stick with the full-featured Windows version.
Lima Ultra: Tiny, personal cloud storage that just misses the mark
The Lima Ultra is geared towards consumers who need a file access and backup system, regardless of which device or OS they are using. But is the device worth the investment?
Amazon Echo review: Alexa is the first digital assistant that is actually helpful
You may not think you need a voice-activated speaker and a cloud-powered digital assistant in your home, but Amazon's Echo and Alexa may persuade you otherwise.
Smartway2 review: BYOD put to use for room-booking and hot-desking
Some vendors would have you use calendar software and proprietary room panels to book meeting rooms and hot desks, but Smartway2 mixes the cloud with mobile apps to let you do it all from a tablet or your smartphone.
Xero (2014) review: Cloud-based accounting service for SMEs continues to improve
This cloud-based small-business accounting service provides a well-planned set of tools for staying on top of your finances and streamlining the processes involved.
Azure RemoteApp beta preview: Cloud-hosted desktop apps for multiple platforms
Microsoft is developing a set of cloud-based tools for managing and deploying session virtualisation servers, allowing you to publish and share apps on Windows, iOS, Android, OS X and (soon) Windows Phone devices. We take the beta for a test drive.
Xero Touch for Android, First Take: Much-improved native mobile Xero client
A quicker and slicker new app for the online Xero accounting service adds automatic reconciliation of bank accounts, allowing Android users to stay on top of their finances.
Office 2013: a pleasant surprise
After a week of using Office 2013 we're pleasantly surprised. The changes Microsoft has made to support Windows 8 — and specifically Windows 8 tablets — are logical, and they work well with more traditional ways of using Office.
Windows Intune 3.0: Preview
Version 3.0 of Microsoft's cloud-hosted management platform is now available, adding support for mobile devices — including iPhones, iPads and Android.
Xero
Xero is an affordable online accounting service that delivers key bookkeeping functionality for small businesses in an admirably straightforward way.
Actinic Online
A big step up from Actinic Express, which it replaces, Actinic Online delivers everything an SME requires to build and run an online store via the cloud. It's not perfect, but it is affordable and worth evaluating if you need to start selling online.
Cortado ThinPrint Printer Dashboard
Cortado's ThinPrint Printer Dashboard is a potentially useful cloud application for monitoring the printers on your network. We had a few issues in this review, which hopefully will be addressed in a forthcoming update.
QuickBooks Online
A usable small-business accounting service that's quick to configure and easy to learn, the initial release of QuickBooks Online lacks a number of features important in this market.
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