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Equinix to add 200K square feet of data center space in major expansion
Amazon Inc. and its fellow infrastructure-as-a-service giants aren’t the only ones benefiting from the growing demand for off-premise resources in the enterprise. The trend is also creating more business for co-location providers like Equinix Inc., which is looking to grow its share of the pie with a newly announced expansion effort that will see four ...
Cloudera launches open-source effort to harness Hadoop for security analytics
Hadoop will soon be brought up much more often in enterprise security discussions if Cloudera Inc.’s newest community effort achieves its goal. The Open Network Insight (ONI) project launched on GitHub this week to help organizations take advantage of data crunching platform’s processing power in their breach prevention efforts. The documentation for the tool explains that ...
Dell-EMC merger receives approval from EU regulators
Less than a week after receiving the blessings of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Dell Inc.’s proposed acquisition of EMC Corp. has cleared another major regulatory hurdle on the other side of the pond. The European Commission announced this morning that it’s decided to follow in the footsteps of its stateside counterpart and approve the ...
What you missed in Big Data: The AI arms race continues
Three months since Google Inc. fired the first shot, the one-upmanship in the data science ecosystem shows no signs of slowing down. Last week saw Yahoo Inc. return to the fray after a brief hiatus and open-source a homegrown extension for Spark that extends its machine learning capabilities into the realm of artificial intelligence. CaffeOnSpark ...
What you missed in Cloud: Driving adoption
It is a universal truth of software development that the easier an offering is to adopt and use, the broader its appeal becomes. Oracle Corp. set out to apply the principle in the public cloud last week with the acquisition of Ravello Systems Inc., a startup whose unique brand of virtualization promises to dramatically simplify ...
EMC intros all-flash VMAX, DSSD arrays as part of historic refocus
After years of slowing growth in its core disk-based array business and constant scrutiny from analysts, EMC Corp. is finally ready for a change. The data center giant this morning revealed an ambitious effort to retool its entire primary storage portfolio around flash, beginning with the crown jewel: Its flagship VMAX series. EMC is adding ...
Microsoft Azure gets new data-driven security features
It’s been an eventful past 48 hours for Microsoft. Yesterday, the software giant announced the acquisition of mobile development giant Xamarin Inc. in a deal reportedly worth north of $400 million. And today it’s rolling out one of the biggest updates to Azure in recent memory. Much of the new functionality that is being introduced ...
Network uptime specialist ThousandEyes nabs $35M from cloud giants
While mobile devices and cloud computing have greatly improved the productivity of the average enterprise user, the growing amount of business activity taking place outside the firewall is making it harder than ever for network administrators to do their jobs. A group of high-profile investors including Google Ventures and Salesforce.com Inc.’s private equity arm today ...
Automation giant ServiceNow moves into security with new cloud service
For all the effort that security vendors have been putting into providing more automation for their customers, network protection software is ultimately only as effective the administrator behind the screen. ServiceNow Inc. hopes to elevate the human element in the equation with a new cloud-based offering designed to address one of the biggest productivity bottlenecks affecting ...
BlackBerry launches security practice to help companies combat hacking
While most of the other vendors attending the Mobile World Congress this week are showing off their latest consumer gadgets, BlackBerry Ltd. is focusing solely on the enterprise. The main talking point at the company’s booth this morning is its launch of a new security practice that will focus on helping organizations defend their infrastructure ...
