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When Pure Storage filed its S-1 documentation last year, pundits were roundly surprised at the revenue growth that the company had seen. Over the years 2013, 2014 and 2015, the company grew from $6 million to $43 million to $174 million. That growth continued post IPO with the company reporting in its first post-public earnings call that revenue had nearly tripled. Of course as is the norm with these high-growth companies, the losses were also piling up, but in a race for scale that is the model most companies are chasing. Читать дальше...

In March 2006 James Hamilton was the general manager of an anti-spam email platform owned by Microsoft. When he saw the news that Amazon.com –the company most notably known at the time as an ecommerce bookseller – had released a new cloud-based storage system, he had to investigate.

Artificial intelligence has made significant inroads in the consumer world, but use of the technology in the enterprise is still in its infancy.

The government last week revealed new details about the iPhone that is at the center of an increasingly bitter dispute between federal authorities and Apple.

AUSTIN -- Achieving a diversified staff in a tech firm can't be done casually, but offering prospective employees a shorter work week may or may not entice them to sign up.

The evolution to software defined networking (SDN) is well underway. ZK Research (I am an employee of ZK Research) shows that almost 80% of organizations are interested in the topic, although fewer than 10% have actually deployed the technology. This means there are a huge number of organizations trying to understand the best way to deploy SDN.

At one time, all-flash storage arrays were used for a single mission-critical application with a need for speed, usually in big IT shops. Now they're poised to take over many more parts of IT.

German telecos are rolling out new cloud services this week to compete with those from the big U.S. providers. Their selling point is location -- though their “home grown” infrastructure is still dependent on technology from U.S. and Chinese suppliers.

It's no secret Microsoft wants you using Windows 10 and will pull out the stops to get people to upgrade. The new strategy now appears to be setting business users against their boss while upgrading consumers without their approval.

At last month’s Mobile World Congress it was good to see a few demonstrations of 5G air interface technologies. As is typical in this phase of R&D, these demos were limited to big boxes with a science project feel. At one such demo at the Intel booth a characteristic oscilloscope rendering of an OFDM waveform begged the question what role will OFDM play in 5G? What waveform will define 5G? Even, will 5G say a farewell to OFDM?

If you're looking to turn your Raspberry Pi 3 into a usable PC, you'll probably want an external hard drive to provide additional storage. Western Digital's newest PiDrive might be the answer.

Finding humor in Apple vs. FBI

The epic battle between Apple and the FBI over breaking the encryption of an iPhone 5c used by the San Bernardino terrorists is a serious matter and even Conan O’Brien and Stephen Colbert play it straight when discussing it on their shows recently. But comedians/talk show hosts have also taken the opportunity to point out the absurdities of the situation. Take a spin through these videos if you want a few laughs, though we suggest doing so away from earshot of office mates due to some NSFW content. Читать дальше...

After years of relying on the Amazon cloud to store its users' files, Dropbox has shifted gears and begun using primarily its own technology instead.

As Microsoft auto-upgrades more PCs to Windows 10, some users are complaining that they weren’t adequately notified.

Spammed Word documents with malicious macros have become a popular method of infecting computers over the past few months. Attackers are now taking it one step further by using such documents to deliver fileless malware that gets loaded directly in the computer's memory.

With both the FBI and Apple taking strong stances as it pertains to the locked iPhone of one of the San Bernardino terrorists, it's extremely possible that the ongoing battle might work its way up to the U.S. Supreme Court.

As interest in virtual reality explodes, there's a growing focus among developers on  writing programs that can provide interactive experiences on VR headsets. Now, Qualcomm is jumping in with a new VR software development kit that makes it possible to write applications for Samsung's Gear VR headset.

Manual processes represent a major incident response bottleneck at enterprise organizations.  Here are a few alarming data points from some recent ESG research (note: I am an ESG employee):

Google, Apple and Facebook were targeted by double the number of phishing sites as financial institutions, like banks and PayPal were in 2015, Webroot says in its latest annual briefing published in February.

Imagine being able to play any game in your Steam library inside a virtual reality setting. Valve will make it so via SteamVR Desktop Theater Mode.

Bitcoin’s day in the sun at Microsoft appears to be over, at least for now. According to a report on Softpedia published Friday, the purveyor of all things Windows has decided to stop taking the cryptocurrency after accepting it as a form of payment on the WIndows Store since late 2014.

Practical Pi projects

Most of the Raspberry Pi coverage you’ll see around the web focuses on the more fantastical projects—magic mirrors, portable gaming handhelds, intelligent drones, and so forth. And for good reason! Those maker masterpieces show what sort of power the $35 mini-PC is capable of in the hands of someone with a little imagination and a bin full of spare electronics.

Open source rookies of the year

Welcome to the eighth edition of the Black Duck Open Source Rookies of the Year awards. Each year, Black Duck reviews the world of open source and recognizes the best new projects launched during the past year -- and since 2014, we've published the results on InfoWorld.

When a demand for your money or your data pops up on a critical system, you have only a short period of time to decide whether to respond to a ransomware attack.

When it comes to layered defense and security tools, less is often more just as more can sometimes be less. The average enterprise uses 75 security products to secure their network. That's a lot of noise and a lot of monitoring and testing for security practitioners.