Dell and Intel bet big on Mirantis OpenStack cloud

NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson talks growth, strategy, and life with Oracle | Samsung previews foldable, rollable smartphone displays

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Dell and Intel bet big on Mirantis OpenStack cloud
OpenStack cloud vendor Mirantis has received a hefty $10 million capital injection from the investment arms of Dell, Intel, and WestSummit. The bonanza sets up the company to take on OpenStack rivals such as Rackspace and Piston Computing. What's more, it could garner greater interest in and support for the OpenStack open source cloud platform, which rivals offerings from former OpenStack supporter Citrix with CloudStack, Microsoft, Eucalyptus, and reigning cloud king Amazon Web Services. Read More


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NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson talks growth, strategy, and life with Oracle
NetSuite is one of the SaaS (software as a service) market's pioneers, having sold its growing family of ERP, e-commerce, and other applications since 1998. The vendor's results have been beating Wall Street's predictions and may yet again in a few weeks when NetSuite is expected to announce its fourth-quarter and year-end results. NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson spoke with IDG News Service this week on a wide range of topics. The following is an edited transcript of that conversation. Read More

Samsung previews foldable, rollable smartphone displays
Flexible OLEDs that can be rolled up or wrapped around the sides of smartphones are getting closer to reality. Samsung Electronics showed some of its prototype flexible displays at CES Wednesday and launched a new brand name for them, Youm. Microsoft was also on hand, showing a research project for its Xbox Kinect that makes video games look like they extend beyond the edges of a TV screen onto the walls and floor. Read More

SecurEnvoy and PasswordBank join forces on single sign-on for cloud services
SecurEnvoy and PasswordBank have joined forces to allow users to access multiple cloud services at the same time using their mobile phones. Enterprise users can access cloud services such as Google Apps, Office365, and Salesforce.com through PasswordBank's single sign-on platform, using SecurEnvoy's mobile phone-based two-factor authentication. Read More

U.S. bank cyber attacks reflect 'frightening' new era
Cyber attacks on U.S. banks over the last several months reflect a frightening new era in cyber warfare that corporations are unprepared to battle because of a shortage of experts skilled in building effective defenses, one security expert says. Read More



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