All eyes and ears will be on Satya Nadella, now in his third month as CEO, on his first appearance on the Microsoft earnings call. It’s not exactly a shocker that Satya Nadella will anchor Microsoft’s third-quarter earnings call Thursday, but folks will be listening carefully to what he has to say — expecting him to hold fast to his broad strategy of device independence, as long as those devices hook into Microsoft’s Azure cloud. His predecessor, Steve Ballmer, was not a fixture on these calls. As one insider put it, the former CEO…

Report finds nearly half of providers subjected to brute force attacks from criminals Attacks against cloud platforms and their providers are on the rise, according to a recently published report. The research, carried out by Alert Logic, shows cloud hosting provider (CHP) environments saw a significant increase in action, with brute force attacks climbing from 30 per cent to 44 per cent of customers, and vulnerability scans increasing from 27 per cent to 44 per cent. It said these kinds of attacks have historically been far more likely to target…

Citizens in Serbia have gained a new electronic database, which provides quick, easy and simple way to learn about the documents related to the field of environment that are possessed by different institutions, enterprises and organizations in the country, as well as how to gain access to such documents.   The database was named “Ecoregister”, or the “National Metaregister for Environmental Information”, and it can be accessed on the Internet at the following address: www.ekoregistаr.sepа.gov.rs . Ecoregister represents at the same time an electronic database and a portal to the existing databases…

Allows customers to automatically replicate infrastructure in one of VMware datacentres VMware has launched Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service from its vCloud Hybrid Service’s five datacentres. The will enable end users to access a disaster recover service to protect them from on-premise failures. VMware vCloud Hybrid Service – Disaster Recovery will cost firms $835 a month including 1TB of storage with 10GHz vCPU and 20GB of vRAM (in a mult-tenant configuration). VMware said the low price meant customers could avoid owning tertiary datacentres for DR purposes and would also protect applications that were previously vulnerable…

Education There was a time when pupils used a pen to enter sentences, essays, mathematical formulas into their notebooks – now they can directly enter tables, images, and even links to videos into an electronic workbook. Instead of using pocket or rucksack, children carry an online notebook in their mobile phone, tablet or computer, and they can access it no matter where they are. In some schools, teaching using electronic notebook has already become a regular occurrence, and the teachers have become used to communicating with students in this way.…