Here comes Windows as a Desktop-as-a-Service: Microsoft Cloud PC. Ready or not, here comes Windows as a Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) for all users in the forthcoming Microsoft Cloud PC offering. I’ve been predicting that many of us would soon be using Desktop-as-a-Service for a long time now. I can give you an approximate date now. By May 2021, … Read more
The rise of remote work brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic has spurred faster adoption of employee monitoring software by companies who want to boost productivity — and keep an eye on workers outside the office. In the midst of a pandemic that’s led to unprecedented levels of remote working, digital tools to monitor employees … Read more
Dell’s Apex program is designed to accelerate adoption of IT-as-a-service, starting with storage-as-a-service across public cloud providers. All of the major IT hardware suppliers to one degree or other have adopted a consumption model, which is a fancy word for leasing. Rather than the outright purchase of hardware, customers lease it, usage is monitored, and … Read more
Office 2010 and Office 2016 for Mac have now received their final security updates. For users, Microsoft says it’s time to move to Office 365. Microsoft on Tuesday reminded customers that Office 2010 and Office 2016 for Mac have received their final security updates, as the suites have now dropped off the company’s support list. … Read more
IBM adds data, threat intelligence and security service to Cloud Pak for Security system. IBM is expanding the role of its security-software package for hybrid-cloud deployments by improving the gathering of security data collected within customer networks and drawing on third-party threat-intelligence feeds, among other upgrades. IBM’s Cloud Pak for Security, which features open-source technology … Read more
IBM plans to dedicate itself to hybrid cloud, AI, quantum computing, and mainframe technologies, and is breaking out its $19B Managed Infrastructure Services group in order to do so. IBM doesn’t want any distractions on the road to becoming a prodigious hybrid-cloud player, and today it eliminated one of those diversions by spinning off the … Read more
Four years after the launch of G Suite, Google is updating its productivity and collaboration app portfolio with new features, branding and a premium business payment plan. Google’s G Suite is getting a new name — Workspace — as the company looks to position the software as a hub for remote teamwork and tolls out several feature upgrades … Read more
New Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp features simplify access to multi-cloud services and provide better security and lower latency. Cisco has further broadened the cloud-integration options available to its SD-WAN customers with new connectivity options to AWS and Microsoft Azure cloud services. With these additions, Cisco’s goal is to ensure cloud-destined traffic gets into the cloud network faster, … Read more
Companies aim to join forces to provide clean energy for Azure datacentres, smart cities and other energy consumers. BP and Microsoft have signed a strategic partnership to extend digital transformation in energy systems and reduce carbon emissions. As well as using Microsoft Azure for cloud-based IT infrastructure, through the partnership, BP will supply renewable energy … Read more
Cisco’s Cloud-Native SD-WAN project marries SD-WANs to Kubernetes applications to cut down on the manual work needed to optimize latency and packet loss. Cisco has introduced an open-source project that it says could go a long way toward reducing the manual work involved in optimizing performance of Kubernetes-applications across SD-WANs. Cisco said it launched the Cloud-Native … Read more
