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Microsoft’s recent Patch Tuesday update included fixes for 24 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures, including one known as Sandworm. On Oct. 21, Microsoft warned users about another CVE which abuses the same Microsoft Object Linking and Embedding technology that enables the Sandworm vulnerability. Microsoft’s OLE technology enables content to be linked inside of documents. Security firm […]

IBM and Microsoft announced that they are working together to provide their respective enterprise software on Microsoft Azure and IBM Cloud. According to the companies, as adoption of hybrid cloud computing accelerates, this relationship will give clients, partners and developers more choice in the cloud. This Microsoft announcement opens the door for millions of .NET […]

Microsoft’s cloud-in-a-box solution is nearing release, thanks to help from Dell. The Microsoft Cloud Platform System, an Azure-compatible system, will be available beginning Nov. 3 from Dell. CPS is the culmination of an 18-month effort to bring Microsoft’s experience in deploying and operating cloud IT infrastructures to customer data centers. Sam Greenblatt, chief technology evangelist […]

Google recently announced that it will be embracing a new form of two-factor authentication by supporting the Fast IDentity Online (FIDO) Alliance’s Universal 2nd Factor technology. U2F allows Google’s Chrome users to secure access to Google accounts by way of a physical USB security key device. The FIDO Alliance officially got its start in February […]

IBM will pay chip foundry Globalfoundries $1.5 billion to take IBM’s semiconductor business off its hands. This deal comes less than a month after IBM closed the $2.1 billion deal that sent its low-end x86 server business to Lenovo. Speculation about IBM’s interest in selling its semiconductor business began earlier this year, soon after the […]

Several major announcements were made at the recent Strata + Hadoop World 2014 conference. Business intelligence software provider Tableau Software announced expanded support for Hadoop technologies with new partners, including IBM and Amazon Web Services. Meanwhile, Hortonworks announced version 2.2 of its Hortonworks Data Platform, an enterprise-ready data platform with Hadoop YARN as the architectural […]

Supercomputer maker Cray is unveiling the second of its appliances designed to address big data in the high-performance computing space. In December, the company will begin selling the Urika-XA appliance, a system that comes integrated with Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark frameworks to for big data analytics applications that use those open-source technologies. Ramesh Menon, […]

On Oct. 14, Intel executives announced that the chip maker’s Mobile Communications Group lost $1 billion during the third quarter while only generating $1 million in sales. However, Asus, AT&T and Intel later announced that Asus will use an Intel Atom processor and the chip maker’s XMM7160 LTE modem in its new PadFone X mini. […]

Lenovo is teaming up with VMware to build new software-defined data center offerings for cloud and end-user computing environments. The two companies unveiled the partnership Oct. 14 at VMworld Europe 2014. The two companies plan to develop IT infrastructure systems designed to help enterprises and service providers embrace the concept of software-defined data centers. They […]

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently reaffirmed the company’s continued support of its Surface tablet, stating that the company believes that the Microsoft platform for enterprise has many strengths, including the platform’s rich ecosystem of hardware and applications developed by partners. Nadella added that Microsoft is now focusing its attention on business users with the launch […]