Microsoft extends Windows 8 management features in Desktop Optimization Pack
Microsoft has released the latest version of its Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) suite of IT management tools, an upgrade that deepens its ability to manage Windows 8 PC deployments. MDOP 2013, available now via download for the company's Software Assurance licensing program subscribers, boosts the product's BitLocker administration capabilities and group policy management features for Windows 8, Microsoft said on Wednesday.
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Oracle sales force to get bigger, but more competent Oracle's sales force isn't usually seen as the easiest to work with, with customers bombarded by multiple account representatives from different product areas. But changes are in store, according to Oracle co-President Mark Hurd, who spoke this week in Denver at the Collaborate conference, which is put on by three Oracle user groups. Read More ...
Oracle-HP court battle over Itanium delayed indefinitely Oracle and Hewlett-Packard's ongoing legal battle over software for Itanium has run into another delay, and this time there's no telling how long it will last. Read More ...
IDC: PC sales drop precipitously, Mac sales also decline in major market shift A "perfect storm" of struggling PC companies, aversion to Windows 8, and wider mobile-device adoption plunged the already struggling PC market into a free fall during the first quarter this year, IDC said today. Worldwide PC shipments in the first quarter totaled 76.3 million units, down 13.9 percent compared to the same quarter last year, IDC said in research released today. Read More ...
Bitcoin-mining botnet ZeroAccess jumps to top security threat Cyber criminals could be raking in millions of dollars using a Bitcoin-mining botnet called ZeroAccess, according to newly released data from network security company Fortinet. Read More ...
Microsoft must fight to remain influential, say analysts Stormed by a shift to tablets and smartphones and threatened, even in its enterprise bastion, by new demands from workers, Microsoft may lose its place at the table reserved for major technology players, an analyst argued today. But it's not in danger of disappearing, either overnight or as far as forecasts predict. Read More ...
Dropbox to add single sign-on to attract businesses Dropbox, whose cloud storage and file-sharing application has been adopted by millions of consumers, will add single sign-on (SSO), its latest feature for businesses as it seeks to penetrate the workplace market. The company announced on Wednesday that its product will let IT departments tie it to their identity authentication systems. That way, IT departments will be able to include Dropbox in the set of applications that end-users log on to automatically when they sign in once with their main credentials. Read More ...
Obscure setting gives users more control over Windows auto-reboots Microsoft can't get rebooting right. In the early days of Windows XP, automatically applied security patches forced an immediate reboot. Read More ...
Spam botnet-for-hire used to deliver Android malware The world's largest spam botnet has recently been found sending bogus email with links to the Stels Android Trojan, an indication that the malware business on mobile devices is leaving startup mode. Read More ...
Startup aims to cut enterprise data roaming costs Eyeing the sometimes considerable data roaming bills that companies receive, a startup called Wandera launched a service Wednesday that promises to cut down on roaming data use. The company is based in both London and San Francisco and was built by the same team who created ScanSafe, a company acquired by Cisco in 2009 that is now called Cisco Cloud Web Security. Read More ...
Intel's new 'Bay Trail' chip to deliver budget convertible PCs Intel's upcoming "Bay Trail" Atom processor is aimed at the low-end market, and promises to deliver convertible PCs and notebooks with all-day battery life at budget prices, the company said on Wednesday. "We think this is going to significantly expand the volume of Intel architecture-based systems, both for Windows 8 and alternative operating systems," said Kirk Skaugen, general manager for Intel's PC client group. Read More ...
Intel brings Haswell microarchitecture to servers with Xeon E3 chip Intel announced new server chips on Tuesday, including the latest Xeon E3, which is the first server processor based on the company's latest Haswell microarchitecture. Intel's Xeon E3 chips are targeted at low-end servers and microservers, which are an emerging category of dense servers largely aimed at Web hosting and cloud implementations. Microservers usually have lower-power processors and are designed to handle large volumes of lightweight web or cloud transactions, like search queries and social networking page renderings. Read More ...
Intel aims for easy server upgrades To make server upgrades easier, Intel introduced a rack reference architecture that speeds up data throughput while reducing energy and maintenance costs in data centers. The architecture, announced on Tuesday, calls for decoupling processors, memory and storage, and putting them in separate boxes. That is a change from the industry-standard server design, in which the processor and memory reside in a single chassis. Read More ...
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