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Salesforce.com adds new security services to its cloud-based application platform
Now that most of the cultural barriers to adopting cloud services are gone, organizations find themselves contending with the privacy and compliance ramifications of running workloads outside the safety of the firewall. That often involves spending months on building out security features, a delay that Salesforce.com hopes to eliminate with the latest addition to its cloud-based application service. ...
Nimble supercharges its flash storage stack with new software-defined capabilities
Having recently witnessed two of its top rivals roll out new capabilities for their respective flash arrays only a few weeks apart, Nimble Storage Inc. is now joining the fray as well with a landmark update of its own. Making up for its late entry is a slew of major new features that will help make its ...
Industry moves in to finish off Flash after Hacking Team exploit revelations
The first casualty of the attack on the now infamous Hacking Team may not be the Italian spyware vendor itself, as many undoubtedly hope, but rather Adobe Flash, which is now officially blocked in FireFox after the discovery of a third zero-day vulnerability in the trove of internal data pilfered through the breach. And the ...
The UK’s Push Technology debuts ultra-efficient data distribution service
Hot on the heels of PubNub Inc. raising $20 million in funding for its cloud-based data distribution service, a British firm called Push Technology Ltd. is taking a shot of its own at capitalizing on the fast-evolving analytics needs of the enterprise with the launch of a rivaling messaging service. It’s a fully managed implementation of ...
SIOS is bringing machine learning into VMware environments | #CUBEconversations
There’s much talk in industry circles about the potential of machine learning to automate and improve IT infrastructure, but the discussion can seem distant to the majority of administrators working for traditional organizations that are still grappling with the everyday challenges of virtualization. That’s the divide that SIOS Technology Corp. has set out to bridge with ...
Wi-Fi Alliance rolls out P2P standard for the Internet of Things
The prerequisite to realizing the grand vision for vast networks of connected devices working in tandem to improve our lives that has been going around in recent years is an effective medium to facilitate that connectivity within the constraints of the underlying hardware. Numerous protocols and standards have emerged over that period to meet the ...
ARM gains more ground in the data center as SUSE joins the 64-bit party
Intel Corp.’s decades-long dominion over the data center isn’t about to end anytime soon, but the first cracks are starting to show. SUSE LLC, one of the top commercial distributors of Linux in the enterprise, has begun offering partners a special version of its platform specifically designed to run on ARM chips. The move, like ...
More love for Docker monitoring as Sysdig bags $10.7 million from VCs
After managing an impressive few weeks without a single funding announcement, the Docker ecosystem is returning to its usual energetic self with the completion of a $10.7 million round in an emerging startup called Sysdig Inc. that offers monitoring for containerized services. It’s the third such provider to have hit the industry radar recently. We’ve previously ...
Delphix scores $75 million for its data virtualization service
The wave of investor interest in storage consolidation reached full circle this morning after Delphix Inc., one of the earliest pioneers of the centralized data management movement, revealed the completion of a hefty $75 million investment from a roster of high-profile backers. The funding ups the ante for the other players that have emerged lately to capitalize on the ...
Microsoft targets new Cortana Analytics Suite at knowledge workers
Microsoft Corp.’s Cortana is officially coming to the enterprise with the launch of a new suite that leverages the artificial intelligence as a natural-language interface for accessing insights generated using its cloud-based data processing services. It’s an arrangement that could potentially prove tremendously attractive for organizations hoping to step up their analytics efforts. That appeal ...
