Новости за 30.08.2016

VMware this week announced plans to extend NSX, its software defined networking product, to public IaaS cloud computing platforms, allowing customers to manage multiple cloud environments with a single network management portal.

VMware is poised to take you to the cloud, and it wants to prove its worth to be your cloud broker.

Dell will complete its acquisition of EMC on Sept. 7, ending nearly a year of approvals and decades of history for the two companies that will combine to become Dell Technologies.

An EU regulatory group Tuesday imposed tough new rules on European ISPs, in a move that advocates for net neutrality are hailing as a great victory.

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VMware this week is positioning its NSX software defined networking platform as a cross-cloud and hybrid cloud management tool, marking a new target area for the company’s fast-growing virtual networking product.

DARPA wants to exploit the power of the internet of things to help the U.S. dominate battlefields.

With Apple confirming its presumed iPhone 7 announcement on Sept. 7, time's running out to review accessories for earlier Apple smartphone models. So I'll squeeze a couple of quick reviews in right now, having tried out some slim cases and a sturdy car cradle while driving from Massachusetts to Washington, D.C., earlier this month.

A popular BitTorrent client called Transmission has again been found distributing Mac-based malware, months after it was used to spread a strand of ransomware.

The White House today said it was worried that American taxpayers would pay for the European Union's decision to force Apple to pay more than $14 billion in back taxes.

I’ve heard some people say public clouds are a lot like the Eagles' Hotel California—“you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.” Indeed, many customers I’ve talked to about their use of public cloud services say once they start using a cloud service, they’re locked into that specific provider with no ability to move data or workloads from cloud to cloud.

Making a career change is never easy, but few things are more motivating than the prospect of a good salary and a dearth of competition. That's a fair summary of the data science world today, as at least one well-publicized study has made clear, so why not investigate a little further?

Identity management vendor Okta and Google have announced a partnership aimed at getting enterprises to secure their users' identities in the cloud.

Over on the Linux section of Reddit, someone asked the following question:

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Humans like robots that communicate well and express themselves more than bots that simply complete tasks efficiently, or even successfully, say researchers.

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Microsoft is slamming the door on PC builders and upgraders who might have hoped to use the new Intel Kaby Lake or AMD Zen chips for Windows 7 or Windows 8 PCs. Sorry: Both chips are officially supported only by Microsoft’s Windows 10.

Inspired by the classic designs of luxury watches, with cutting-edge technology, the Huawei Watch redefines what we’ve come to expect from a smartwatch. Developed as a statement piece rather than a smartphone for your wrist, it combines elegant craftsmanship with Android Wear, iOS and iPhone compatibility to deliver a new high-end standard for the category.  The 400x400 display delivers notifications, music from your phone, and more than 4,000 apps you can personalize and explore without being tethered to your phone ... Читать дальше...

Apple will take the wraps off the newest iPhone(s) and perhaps a second-gen Apple Watch at an event on Sept. 7 at 10 a.m. Pacific/1 p.m. Eastern. The venue is a standard Apple pick, San Francisco’s Bill Graham Civic Auditorium.

Various Sony audio products are currently discounted at Amazon, and will remain discounted only through September 3rd. Some of the highlights are below:

Security researchers have highlighted in recent months how the web proxy configuration in browsers and operating systems can be abused to steal sensitive user data. It seems that attackers are catching on.

Hopefully you were not curious about why McChicken was trending on Twitter. If you checked it out and saw the graphic video of a man engaging in a sexual act with the McDonald’s sandwich, then you might have wished for a miracle cure to unsee it.

This summer, multiple high-profile organizations have experienced embarrassing and financially costly business disruptions.

Every so often, I find myself with a collection of gadgets that are seemingly unrelated, until I can come up with an overarching theme worthy enough to include them all in the same roundup. Sometimes it’s the “I gotta clean up my desk” theme, sometimes it’s “the vendors are bothering me about where that writeup is.”