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It won't settle anything in the hybrid cloud market Share Comment In the dog days between Christmas and New Year, VMware and Nutanix renewed hostilities. It wasn’t hard to see it coming after VMware’s head of cloud Rajiv Ramaswami bailed to become CEO of Nutanix. VMware sued Ramaswami because he was simultaneously working for VMware while chatting to Nutanix about his new job. “He should have disclosed this conflict of interest to VMware so that the company could have taken steps to protect itself,” VMware said in an announcement that it has sued its former employee “for mat...

  TORONTO -- Customers’ names, shipping and billing addresses, order dates, methods of payment and the last four digits of the credit cards used were on full display for orders of a $1,500 laptop computer in Ontario, a $700 spin bike in Saskatchewan, and more than $1,100 worth of baby gear in B.C. These are just a few samples of Walmart.ca orders CTVNews.ca was able to call up on the retailer’s website Tuesday that demonstrated the ease with which customer information could be accidentally exposed. Sanjay Bhatia said he was looking up his Walmart.ca orders to return one of the items ...

Reseller News Join Reseller News Sign up to gain exclusive access to email subscriptions, event invitations, competitions, giveaways, and much more.Sign up now Red Hat’s crime against CentOS In the beginning, no one expected to get RHEL for free. The end of CentOS as a free drop-in replacement is no cause for outrage Credit: Dreamstime In tech, we tend to get angriest when companies take free things away from us. For example, we shake our fist at Google for removing services they once offered for free. And in open source land, we cry out for justice when our free, drop-in repl...

Thinkstock In tech, we tend to get angriest when companies take free things away from us. For example, we shake our fist at Google for removing services they once offered for free. And in open source land, we cry out for justice when our free, drop-in replacement for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (namely CentOS) becomes less useful as a way to avoid paying for RHEL. I don’t know why Red Hat chose to pull the plug on the traditional fixed-point CentOS release, leaving only the CentOS Stream rolling release in its wake. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols walks through a few possible reasons,...