Major IT Players Form R Consortium to Strengthen Data Analysis
The Linux Foundation announced the formation ofR Consortium, with the intention of strengthening technical and user communities around the R language, the open source programming language for statistical data analysis.…
From artisans to autonomics: How the automation polar shift will happen
Since the end of the 19th century, humans have been fascinated with the idea of artificial intelligence and self-governing machines – from the early novels by HG Wells to the…
Dropbox, Box, Egnyte beef up Microsoft Office partnerships
Cloud storage providers Dropbox, Box, Egnyte, and Citrix ShareFile have announced updates which allow the ability to co-author documents in real time on Microsoft Office products. The update comes as…
Kii introduces its Thing Interaction Framework to simplify and speed up Internet of Things development
Kii has announced the availability of its new platform functionality, Thing Interaction Framework, which allows IoT solutions developers to simplify and speed up the development of both business/industrial and consumer-focused IoT…
What the Safe Harbour ruling means for your business in 2016
The start of a new year is always a good time for many businesses to get their IT strategies in place. However, there has been one issue in the past…
Gartner: Top Security Technologies for 2014 and Safety of the Future
Organizations are dedicating increasing resources to security and risk. Security and risk leaders need to fully engage with the latest technology trends if they are to define, achieve and maintain…
Enterprise SDN: Harnessing ‘containers as a service’
Hyper-scale SDDC and enterprise SDN use cases A major market for telcos will be the enterprise adoption of SDN. They will be able to harness the SDN/NFV innovations from…
Seagate Counters WD With Its Own 10 TB Helium-Filled HDD For Cloud Data Centers
Earlier this week, Seagate released its first 10 TB helium-filled enterprise class 3.5-inch hard drive, posing a threat to its main rival, Western Digital. Even though it will take a…
Cloud Update: Adoption and Transformation
Cloud Update: Adoption and Transformation Clouds are improving business operations, supporting mission-critical workloads, and providing security comparable—if not superior—to in-house data centers. It wasn't that long ago when cloud computing…