The end of support for Office 2010 is coming up in less than 10 months. What does that mean for companies still running the aging Office suite? We’ve got answers. With Windows 7’s retirement from support now behind everyone, the next major marker for a Microsoft expiration arrives in a little less than 10 months, when … Read more
The ERP vendor seeks to entice upgrades to its latest platform as it also announces there will be no support for Business Suite 7 beyond 2030. SAP is taking a carrot-and-stick approach to moving customers from its legacy ERP software, Business Suite 7, to its newer S/4HANA platform. The carrot is a bold promise to … Read more
Cisco and IBM have partnered to offer Managed Private Cloud-as-a-service for VMware and IBM/RedHat OpenShift environments. Cisco and IBM have rolled out a pair of managed private-cloud services aimed at customers looking for the utility of a public cloud delivered on premises. Cisco and IBM Services have partnered to offer a Managed Private Cloud-as-a-service powered by Cisco’s … Read more
Microsoft’s Chromium-based browser has officially arrived, no doubt bringing questions from users about what it means for them. We’ve got answers. More than a year after Microsoft waved the white flag, saying it would scrap Edge’s rendering engine and replace it with Blink, the engine that powers Google’s Chrome, the company has now delivered its … Read more
Microsoft recommends migrating Server 2008 workloads to Azure cloud services while enterprises modernize their apps for Windows Server 2016 or 2019 deployments. This week’s Patch Tuesday marked the end of the line for both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 (and 2008 R2). No more fixes will be issued for the two aged operating systems, … Read more
Among other things, smart vehicles, immersive AR/VR environments and edge-based device intelligence will drive Apple’s new decade. Apple patents granted in the final moments of 2019 shine a little light into its plans for the next decade. What the patents say Apple won 31 patents on Dec. 31, 2019. Three are of particular interest: A passenger safety … Read more
New York Times accuses the public cloud provider of taking open source products and integrating them into its own managed services. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has accused the New York Times of publishing misleading information, after the newspaper published a 3,000-word article on the public cloud giant’s misuse and exploitation of open source. During 2019, there have … Read more
With support for Windows 7 ending in January, the push to upgrade to Windows 10 continues. But the pace of Win10 adoptions stalled in November. Microsoft customers last month pressed “pause” in their migrations from Windows 7 to Windows 10 as the adoption of the latter stalled for the first time since February. According to … Read more
IBM Cloud Pak for Security features open-source Red Hat technology for hunting threats and automation to speed response to cyberattacks. IBM is taking aim at the challenging concept of securely locking-down company applications and data spread across multiple private and public clouds and on-premises locations. IBM is addressing this challenge with its Cloud Pak for … Read more
Cisco is bringing some of the bells and whistles of its Catalyst environment to Meraki customers with hardware and software to help customers better support and secure distributed network resources. Cisco Meraki has introduced new hardware and software the company says will help customers more effectively support and secure a wide variety of distributed network … Read more
