This Week in Data (January 29, 2016)

This Week in Data January 22-29, 2016 VMware said that it will cut 800 jobs due to a company restructuring, where they will focus on better investing in growth areas and narrow the focus of its cloud services portfolio. mware Facebook is building its second European data center in Ireland, which will be equipped with servers and storage from the Open Compute Project and powered by the country's wind resources. ARBOR /Arbor Networks released their 11th annual security research report, showing that hosting providers are the end-user targets of 42 percent of all cyber attacks. NETWORK Microsoft is extending its cloud infrastructure portfolio, with plans to package up its public Azure cloud offerings as a private cloud offering to customers and enterprises. Lenovo has patched a number of severe security vulnerabilities, one of which involved a hard-coded password which has been awarded the title of the third worst password of all time. Lenovo.