Avaya cozies up to developers
Avaya is making it easier to drop its unified communications capabilities into business applications, removing a layer of complexity that may be holding developers back from writing communications-enabled apps for businesses. The company is announcing Avaya Aura Collaboration Environment, which is made up of both a set of developer tools and also software that interfaces communications-enabled apps with Avaya Aura unified communications infrastructure that actually delivers the communication link.
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'Building blocks' snap together virtually to handle big storage
Easy expansion, lower costs and cloud-like internal services are common themes in storage today, and startup Coho Data is playing all three with a "micro-array" architecture that it's introducing on Tuesday.
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Lavabit briefly allowing users to recover their data
Former users of the Lavabit encrypted email service that was shut down in August are being temporarily allowed to change their passwords and download copies of their data. Lavabit, an email service founded in 2004, was abruptly shut down following pressure from the U.S. government to hand over user communications and the encryption keys used to secure them.
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NSA collects address books to map human relationships
The U.S. National Security Agency is collecting online address books from Yahoo, Hotmail, Facebook, Gmail, and other providers in order to map human relationships, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
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Backup starts to scale out along with storage, data growth
Backup and recovery is starting to get some of the same capabilities as primary storage systems to handle the rising floods of data with less management overhead.
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Apple hires CEO of Burberry to run retail operations
Apple is hiring Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts to lead its retail business, choosing someone from a fashion brand rather than from a consumer electronics retail chain. Ahrendts will be joining Apple in a newly created position as senior vice president of retail and online stores. She will be a member of the executive team, reporting directly to CEO Tim Cook, Apple announced on Tuesday.
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Salesforce vs. Microsoft: Dueling single sign-ons
Diversify or die, that's the lesson of the era for most any service-oriented company. If you don't want to get plowed under, you'd better find out where else you can go from here.
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VMware acquires Desktone, makes network virtualization generally available
VMware continues to push its plan to virtualize the whole data center, with the general availability of its network virtualization platform, and desktops too with the acquisition of desktop-as-a service company Desktone. Less than two months after VMworld in San Francisco, VMware has gathered users and partners in Barcelona for the European version of its user conference. The main theme is once again virtualizing the whole data center, including servers, storage, networking and security.
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Continuous delivery revs up software updates
Continuous delivery, which involves rapid updates to software to keep up with changing business demands, presents opportunities in agility and automation, proponents say, but implementing continuous delivery and its critical process changes can be tricky.
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D-Link's backdoor: What else is in there?
A recently unveiled backdoor in a number of late-model D-Link brand routers indicates that the practice of adding manufacturer's backdoors to network hardware is still alive and well.
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Imagination dispatches Warrior CPU core to battle ARM and Intel
Imagination Technologies will deliver its first Warrior CPU core to device makers by the end of the year, beginning a campaign to make the MIPS architecture a more potent rival to ARM and x86. Imagination's graphics chips are already used in most of the top smartphones and tablets, including the iPhone and iPad, and last year it bought MIPS Technologies to try to build a CPU business as well.
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Gartner: Enterprises will snub Microsoft's faster release tempo and stick with Windows 7
Enterprises will standardize on Windows 7 and Office 2010 and will ignore Microsoft's newer operating system and suite for years, research firm Gartner predicted. "There's a good chance that enterprises will stay on Windows 7 as long as possible," said Gartner analyst Michael Silver in an interview last week after hosting an hourlong presentation at the firm's annual IT conference in Orlando, Fla.
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Full HD coming to Windows Phone devices
Microsoft's next Windows Phone update opens the door for 1080p screens and more powerful processors from Qualcomm. Microsoft will deliver the new version of Windows Phone 8, called General Distribution Release 3, to existing phones over the coming months, Microsoft said in a blog post on Monday.
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