I was shocked to know that HP is planning to split into two different companies within one year. It is said that it is going to be split into HP Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise. The former will handle the sales of PCs and printers and the latter will handle the sales of the data center products and services. Is it true?

We all know that most of the data center giants prefer embracing renewable energy. Several companies like Google, Facebook and AWS build large data centers based on renewable energy. Even many companies invest only in datacenters with renewable energy? Do these datacenter giants prefer using renewable energy for PR or cost reduction?

I was really shocked to know the information released by Symantic about a malware by name Regin. It even says that this malware was wild enough infecting computers since 2008. Did all the antivirus or scanning software miss from discovering this malware? How was Regin malware undetectable, though it was infecting computers since 2008? 

Last year Barclays Bank confirmed that they have plans to thousands of employees across UK for reducing the number of branches. Recently Lloyds Banking Group announced that they are planning to cut nine thousand employees and shut down 150 branches of their bank to stay focused on the digital automation process. Now Dutch bank ING has confirmed cutting thousands of bank staffs in next three years. Are bank staffs facing redundancy due to digital transformation?

I came to know that The Canadian Cancer Society (CCSSK) of Saskatchewan is being helped by Cloud to increase its donations by 40 percent. Initially it was hoped for a better customer experience using the cloud, but it is said that even the pledge numbers and participants were increased beyond expectations after using the salesforce data. Is Cancer Charity Society really being helped by Cloud to increase its donations?

What is a protocol? Name some standard protocols commonly in use? What is TCP? What is File Transfer protocol (FTP)? What is it used for? How is it different for SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP). FTP may run on active or passive mode. What does this mean? How is, data transfer done Via FTP?

One of my friends informed me that IBM’s has come out with this dedicated BlueMix platform which provides more options of DevOps to its customers. All the customers can utilize collaborative life cycle management for reducing the time and cost of testing on cloud. Does IBM’s dedicated BlueMix platform provide better collaborative cloud power?

A recent survey says that most of the organizations have stalled or failed with their cloud hosting implementations and several other organizations have claimed that they don’t want change their design. Can we migrate to the cloud without changing the existing applications? Can anyone throw light on this issue of cloud migration?

I was shocked to know that IBM Global Entrepreneur Program is been announced by IBM for Cloud Startups. It is also said that the startups on IBM’s cloud platform can access Twitter’s Social Analytics, Soft Layer Infrastructure, Cloudant’s database and Aspera’s data transfer. Is IBM providing $120k to startups to build their business in cloud?

We all know the well known offer of Microsoft to its Office 365 users last month. Microsoft offered unlimited OneDrive cloud storage initially and then provided free terabyte offers to those users and gradually provided them with the free usage of Dropbox too. Now I heard that Google has offered a similar offer to its customers. Is one terabyte of free Drive storage free for new Chromebook customers?