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IBM shells out $2.6BN for healthcare analytics giant Truven
Medical information from some 215 million people is set to be absorbed into IBM Corp.’s public cloud later this year as part of its newly announced acquisition of Truven Healthcare Analytics Inc. for $2.6 billion. The records will be accompanied by the Michigan-based vendor’s more than 5,000 employees, which include hundreds of data scientists, clinicians, ...
Siemplify exits stealth with a graphical console for tracking down cyberthreats
With millions of cyberattacks being launched against the private sector every day, enterprises can no longer afford to wait weeks for their security teams to manually track down every breach. The latest startup to take a shot at speeding detection times is Siemplify Ltd., which came out of stealth mode today with a threat analysis ...
GridGain gets $15M for its in-memory data fabric
The venture capital community is starting to take note of the growing demand for in-memory analytics. A group of international investors led by Russian financial services giant Sberbank this morning bought a $15 million stake in a vendor called GridGain Systems Inc. that they seem to perceive as their best chance at monetizing the trend. ...
SAP gobbles up mobile data visualizer Roambi
Mobile devices are the new front in the battle for the $16 billion business intelligence market. SAP SE entrenched its position this week with the acquisition of MeLLmo Inc., the company behind the hugely-successful Roambi line of data visualization tools. The California-based outfit has come a long way since releasing the first version of its ...
Google ups the ante in the machine learning wars
Google Inc. is shaking up the open-source ecosystem. In November, the search giant released the code for an internally-developed machine learning engine that prompted nearly half a dozen other web giants to share their own model-building tools. And now it’s taking the fight deeper into the development life cycle with the launch of a complementary framework ...
Illumio aims its self-adapting security platform at malicious insiders
With over 40 percent of enterprise data leaks now estimated to originate from within the corporate network, security vendors are starting to pay more attention to the threat of malicious insiders. The latest player to jump aboard the bandwagon is the Accel Partners-backed Illumio Inc., which today introduced new user authorization functionality for its cloud-based ...
Exabeam wants to disrupt the Netflixization of cybersecurity with new tool
Sometimes, the best solution to a problem is also the most straightforward. Threat detection startup Exabeam Inc. today unveiled a new security forensics tool that attempts to address what CEO Nir Polak perceives as a gap in operational visibility caused by the increasing sophistication of network protection software. The issue is especially pronounced in the ...
Zoomdata raises $25 million for its real-time data visualization tool
Business intelligence vendors are embracing high-performance execution frameworks like Apache Spark en masse in a bid to address the growing demand for real-time analytics. But the data visualization subsegment is still largely stuck in the batch processing era, which is creating a rift that Zoomdata Inc. hopes to bridge with the help of the $25 ...
IBM contributes 44K lines of code to open-source blockchain project
IBM Corp. is hitting the ground running in the nascent blockchain market. Barely two months after announcing plans to develop an open-source implementation of the technology for the financial services sector, the vendor is releasing nearly 44,000 lines of code that will form the core of the project. The framework, dubbed Hyperledger, has been designed with ...
Nutanix supercharges its hyperconverged stack with “one-click automation”
Less than a week after VMware Inc. introduced a new iteration of its management platform for hyperconverged appliances, Nutanix Inc. is firing back with the announcement of an equally major software update that ups the ante on automation. The biggest changes are coming to its homegrown hypervisor included in its rivaling gear, which aims to win ...
