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Amazon Web Services has been at the forefront of the migration to the public cloud for years now, and is still pushing more businesses to leave on-premises workloads behind. But there's a difficulty in all that: What about all those companies that have massive amounts of data tied up in on-premises servers and proprietary database formats?

LAS VEGAS -- The head of Amazon Web Services told customers on Wednesday that the company is still leading the cloud market, despite all the new competition coming at it.

Toyota today announced it has been road testing an automated vehicle called the Highway Teammate and expects to launch self-driving cars based on that technology by 2020.

Microsoft has told business that want to lock down Office 2016 so they don't receive a constant churn of changes to purchase old-school perpetual licenses rather than subscribe to Office 365.

WhatsApp users on Android will soon be able to rest easy with the knowledge that their messages have been backed up to Google’s cloud, thanks to a new integration between the two companies announced Wednesday. 

As companies generate more and more data, one of the key things they need to do is find some way to make that data useful from a business standpoint. 

Amazon's new Kinesis Firehose service, announced at its Re:Invent conference in Las Vegas Wednesday, focuses on helping companies pull streams of data in from all sorts of devices. The service, available immediately, connects streaming data sources, including embedded devices that are part of the Internet of Things, to AWS storage.

Facing threats from Apple and Facebook, Google is teaming up with web publishers to cut down page load times on smartphones.

The widespread adoption of digital communication in everyday life has vastly increased the temptation to multitask. Many people, particularly millennials, feel they need to continuously monitor news feeds, social media, text messages and other sources of digital information. Unfortunately, heavy media multitasking reduces personal effectiveness at work. Serious multitaskers may find it hard to believe, but research from Stanford University reports that people don’t multitask well. Consuming multiple... Читать дальше...

Gamer? Strike. Bad-mouthed the government in comments on social media? Strike. Even if you don’t buy video games and you don’t post political comments online “without prior permission,” but any of your online friends do….strike. The strikes are actually more like dings, dings to your falling credit score that is.

Machine learning has been making its way into a growing range of enterprise software in recent months, and on Wednesday Zendesk provided a fresh example: Satisfaction Prediction, a new tool designed to help companies catch potential customer-service problems before they happen.

Microsoft has been making a massive push to get companies onto its Office 365 productivity service offering, including moving functions it traditionally handled on-premises like Active Directory and email to the cloud. Doing the work required to make that happen can be a real pain, especially for IT departments that already have their hands full.

A targeted attack against Outlook Web Application (OWA) illustrates how far adversaries will go to establish persistent control over the organization's entire network.

Ah, that sweet new software smell. It can mean only one thing: Google's latest version of Android -- Android 6.0, a.k.a. Marshmallow -- is toasted up, cooled off, and ready for the world to enjoy.

Equinix is in a pretty amazing position as an arms broker for organizations using technology. Not only does it have a massive global footprint of data centers, but it also plays host to a number of public cloud vendors within those data centers. While public cloud vendors are quick to trumpet the opening of a new facility in a far-flung location, often that facility is actually sited within an Equinix facility.

Windows 10 is running on 110 million devices, Microsoft said yesterday as it introduced a new Surface Pro tablet, the Surface Book notebook and several Lumia smartphones, all of which run the OS.

As the pace of technological change in cloud data centers speeds up, the list of endeavors in cloud data centers grows longer. A sampling of that list includes Internet of Things, innovation, big data, mobile and social access, and SDN/NFV.

Apple's iPhone and iPad long ago pushed out the BlackBerry as the corporate standard for mobile devices, in all but the highest-security environments. Earlier this year, Google -- whose Android platform reigns outside the corporate world -- got serious about mobile management with a new effort called Android for Work. And Samsung upped its the game with a new version of its Android security suite, Knox.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and chums introduce the world to new Windows hardware. There's an improved tablet (Surface Pro 4), a new convertible laptop (Surface Book), and a pair of pointless flagship phones (Lumia 950 and 950XL).

AppDirect has a pretty simple proposition. The way they see it, more and more organizations are going to have to work out how they can deliver some kind of application marketplace. Telcos, cloud vendors, banks and other organizations increasingly look to package up a range of different applications, and sell them to their existing (and future) customer base in order to generate more revenue and leverage the existing customers they have.

Nothing is more important to the performance of your company's Wi-Fi network than the channels used by your wireless access points (APs). You can blanket a building with the latest and greatest APs, placed in the most advantageous spots, yet have a failing network if they aren't set to optimal channels on the Wi-Fi frequency bands.

Verizon's acquisition of AOL means that ads for some U.S. mobile users are about to get a whole lot more targeted.

Manager at this electrical supply warehouse complains to his storage array vendor that two of the vendor's power supplies have failed, one after another, according to a support engineer pilot fish.

While most decent people spent the last few days playing with their new iPhones or travelling to Manchester, UK, to reject short-sighted ‘austerity’ politics, a patent for an Apple ring was published – so what is this iThing, and how might we use it?

Microsoft has cited a ruling by an European Court on transatlantic transfers of personal data as having a bearing on its litigation over turning over email held in Ireland to U.S. law enforcement.