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Report: 80 percent of companies using SaaS have lost business data
As the number of on-premise workloads being moved to the cloud continues to increase, the risks involved in storing sensitive business information outside the safety of the firewall are becoming more pronounced. A new survey of 1,037 enterprise technology professionals published by EMC Corp. subsidiary Spanning today reveals that nearly 80 percent have experienced some ...
Mysterious AI startup bags $4.7M to put an artificial brain in every application
The open-source ecosystem contains an abundance of tools for building artificial intelligence software, but only a handful of companies can afford to hire the specialists with the necessary skills to put them to use. A startup called DimensionalMechanics Inc. is launching out of stealth mode this morning with $4.7 million in funding to try and level ...
EMC files yet another suit against Pure Storage over disputed deduplication tech
A week after winning $14 million in damages as part of its long-running patent dispute with Pure Storage Inc., EMC Corp. is back for round two. The array maker is asking the Delaware court handling the case that the fine be increased to account for several previously undisclosed instances where its rival allegedly violated its ...
Mattermark nabs $7.3M for its business-oriented search engine
There is no shortage of services for finding competitive intelligence on the web, but most come with some sort of drawback. Google is second to none at running generic queries yet falls short when it comes to fetching niche data like regulatory filings, while many business-oriented search tools are limited to a specific type of ...
Google, Microsoft and other tech giants team up to fix email security
The proportion of inbound messages that arrive in Gmail properly encrypted has jumped from 50 percent to nearly 70 percent over the past two years, a figure that Google Inc. expects will continue to increase as providers around the world strengthen their security capabilities. But the remaining emails that are still being sent in a plain-text ...
What you missed in Big Data: Mapping out the customer journey
Customer engagement emerged as the dominant theme in the analytics discussion last week after Google Inc. unveiled a new business intelligence suite designed to help organizations gain a better understanding of their customers. The main highlight of the bundle is a dashboarding tool that makes it possible to visualize the massive amounts of demographics and ...
What you missed in Cloud: Automation through collaboration
Last week saw the spirit of collaboration envelope the cloud ecosystem as several of the biggest names in the business partnered up to help their users become more productive. Box Inc. and Okta Inc. led the charge by expanding the integration between their respective platforms to help ease the task of protecting corporate data from theft. ...
Kubernetes 1.2 makes large-scale Docker clusters 400 percent more scalable
Operating large-scale container clusters is set to become much more straightforward thanks to the new version of Google Inc.’s Kubernetes orchestration framework that hit the pages of GitHub this week. The release quadruples the maximum number of nodes in an implementation to 30,000 and brings a host of new automation capabilities designed to reduce the amount ...
Syncsort lets companies keep a closer eye on their mainframes with new Ironstream release
While much of the software used in the enterprise today is supplied by outside vendors, older applications left over from the mainframe era often contain homegrown code that can be challenging to maintain. It’s even more difficult to add new capabilities like integration with a third party service, which complicates operations a great deal. Syncsort ...
Toshiba to spend $3.2BN on cutting-edge new 3D flash plant
The world’s supply of 3D NAND memory will increase significantly in the coming years if Toshiba Corp. succeeds with its latest venture. The Japanese technology giant is preparing to start construction on a cutting-edge new semiconductor plant in its home country that will mass-produce chips based on the ultra-dense flash variant. Toshiba expects to spend ...
