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OpsClarity brings its automated monitoring tech to the Hadoop ecosystem
As if keeping tabs on how the different workloads in a data center interact wasn’t already difficult enough, Hadoop has another layer of dependencies among its internal components. The recently-funded OpsClarity Inc. hopes to simplify the monitoring of the analytics framework with a new iteration of its performance tracking software that adds support for all ...
Google and Verizon are reportedly teaming up against Amazon
For two underdogs in a market as competitive as the public cloud, joining forces is one of the only ways to push ahead. That’s how Google Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. reportedly ended up in talks to develop a joint infrastructure-as-a-service offering aimed at loosening Amazon Inc.’s grip on the enterprise. Insiders close to the ...
IBM joins $60 million funding round into blockchain startup Digital Asset
Big Blue appears to have developed an appetite for fintech startups. Two weeks after picking up Germany’s IRIS Analytics GmbH for its fraud detection technology, the company has contributed to a $60 million funding round in Digital Asset Holdings LLC. The capital infusion adds its name to a star-studded investor roster that also includes consulting ...
HPE targets big banks with new cloud-based analytics service
Banks and other companies in regulated industries have an exponentially larger number of legal obligations to meet than the everyday enterprise, which makes it that much easier to end up on the wrong side of the compliance fence. Hewlett Packard Enterprise became the latest vendor to tackle the issue this morning with the introduction of a new ...
IBM bets big on marketing biz with second creative agency acquisition in a week
Already the world’s largest provider of marketing services, IBM Corp.’s Interactive Experience business is about to grow bigger still. The vendor today announced that more than 300 additional workers will join its ranks in the coming months as part of the acquisition of Germany’s Aperto AG, the second independent creative agency that it’s picked up since ...
“The Beast” is the internal nickname for Cisco’s newest SAN director
The game of one-upmanship in the storage networking market reached another height today with the introduction of a new director switch from Cisco Systems Inc. that packs what is described as a record-setting 786 ports. The combined bandwidth capacity of the MDS 9781 adds up to some 48 terabits per second, enough for even the most ...
Druva puts all-in-one twist on its cloudy data protection service
The one-stop value proposition has proven itself across countless different product categories and market segments over the past few decades. Now, Druva Inc. is looking to add cloud-based data protection to the list with the addition of a new disaster recovery feature to its Phoenix service that aims to spare administrators the hassle of using ...
Microsoft wants to move its data centers underseas
More and more organizations are deploying their hardware in self-contained data center modules as part of the industry shift towards converged infrastructure. But out of all the big names on the bandwagon, Microsoft Corp. is the only one implementing the model underwater. Engineers at its research division recently concluded the 105-day sea trial of an ...
What you missed in Big Data: Separating the signal from the noise
While most of its peers in the contact center automation segment focus on helping organizations improve the quality of their support, Pindrop Inc. makes its living separating legitimate callers from potential scammers. Its software has been adopted by three of the four largest banks in the U.S. and last week marked another milestone after attracting ...
What you missed in Cloud: An extra productive week
Last week saw Amazon Inc. once again take center stage in the public cloud, though not because of a massive new price cut or feature rollout for a change. Instead, Jeff Bezos’ company reported its fourth quarter earnings, which included a record $2.41 billion in revenue generated through its infrastructure-as-a-service platform. The figure represents a ...
