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Oracle buys marketing tech company Grapeshot
Grapeshot is the company behind a "brand safety" platform used by marketers.
Google's Partner Interconnect connects your data center to the cloud with provider link
Google is partnering with ISPs around the world to provide easier connections to meet the needs of SMBs.
NetSuite rapidly grows global footprint, adds new features and tools
The Oracle-owned cloud software company is aggressively expanding, offering more industry-specific tools and introducing a new commerce platform.
Windows 10 Lean: Latest build offers first glimpse of Microsoft's new cut-down OS
Microsoft has built a lightweight version of Windows 10 called Windows 10 Lean.
SAP plans CRM challenge as cloud computing business leaps forward
Cloud revenues top €1 billion as the European software giant targets CRM next.
IT leader’s guide to edge computing
Companies of all sizes and across various industries are moving to edge computing to generate, collect, and analyze data so they can take immediate action on that information. This guide looks at the pros...
Tableau launches Tableau Prep to take pain out of data preparation, Creator, Explorer and Viewer versions
Tableau is looking to expand its reach into enterprises by automating more of data preparation and launching new flavors of the analytics software designed for various business roles.
Department of Defense's updated cloud-computing contract still is winner-take-all
Microsoft and other cloud vendors are keeping close tabs on the estimated multi-billion-dollar U.S. DoD JEDI cloud contract, as it winds its way through the bidding process.
Alphabet tops Q1 targets on revenue of $31.1 billion
Revenue was down in Alphabet's Other Bets category because of the transfer of Nest over to Google's hardware division.
Why Amazon's home robots aren't a stretch: All the infrastructure, ecosystem via AWS is in place
Amazon is reportedly planning to launch domestic robots. Assuming the robot designs aren't horrendous, Amazon already has the computer vision, deep learning, and speech processing to make its robots helpful.
SAP wants manufacturers to embrace cloud computing
New products will allow manufacturers to monitor performance and collaborate with others in the supply chain via the cloud.
What's the most popular Linux of them all?
The data's messy for picking out the most popular Linux distributions, but there are some things we know we know.
Pivotal makes solid Wall Street debut, looks for long-term growth
After a modest first day of trading, Pivotal's CFO says the company is thinking long-term.
Has the time finally come for PostgreSQL?
As the launch pad for nearly a dozen commercial database products, has the time finally come for PostgreSQL to step out into the spotlight?
Medical marijuana: How IT can spark the budding cannabis industry
This fast-growing but difficult-to-navigate vertical needs IT providers. But how many will cater to a $20 billion industry that the feds consider illegal?
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.
Photos: How cool is this? Datacenter at Arctic Circle's edge
At about 50 miles from the Arctic Circle, the frequent -25C (-13F) winter temperatures make the question of how to keep equipment racks cool less of an issue for the Hydro 66 datacenter.
15 major lessons tech companies learned this year
From hack attacks to the king of Macs, we learned some pretty deep truths in 2015
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.
More enterprises are going 'all-in' with select cloud providers
Don't look now but more enterprises are going "all-in" with select cloud providers. Will enterprises repeat the same lock-in mistakes made in the big enterprise software era?
Three (tested) rules to run your cloud computing project smoothly
Executives who presented at the recent Cloud Expo Europe conference event in London explain how to keep these projects running smoothly -- and staff happy.
Microsoft gains protected-level cloud classification from ASD
Microsoft has received accreditation from the Australian Signals Directorate, allowing it to store highly classified government information up to 'protected' level on its Office 365 platform and specific Azure services.
Citrix launches APAC cloud management plane
A new Citrix Cloud management plane will service the Asia-Pacific South, hosted on Microsoft Azure in Sydney, Australia.
Portrait of a modern multi-cloud data center
Built and operated in Amsterdam by Interxion, and dubbed AMS8, this data center was designed from the ground-up to capitalize on the latest trends in enterprise cloud computing.
Dropbox and Salesforce strengthen platform integration
Dropbox and Salesforce's newly announced integration pact will more tightly link their platforms for joint customers.
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.
Windows Intune
Microsoft's cloud-based systems management service makes life simple for SMEs. There's no need for additional infrastructure, and complex tools can be wrapped in a way that makes them accessible even for part-time IT professionals.
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