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Tech giants propose privacy standard for the public cloud
As organizations shift more of their data to the public cloud, including a steadily growing number of mission-critical workloads, the need for privacy controls grows. A group representing some of the biggest names in tech has put forth a standard aimed at addressing that requirement on an industry level for the first time. The rather ...
Hackers raid Anthem in biggest health care breach yet
Barely a month into the new year, industry has already experienced its first large-scale data breach. Anthem Inc., the second largest insurance provider in the U.S., said it fell victim to a historic attack that saw hackers make off with personal information belonging to tens of millions of Americans. A systems administrator at Anthem, which ...
VMware picks up Immidio for VDI smarts
Hot on the heels of releasing a landmark upgrade for its hypervisor, VMware is dropping another bombshell with the acquisition of a low-key startup called Immidio B.V. to match the competition on desktop virtualization. The deal buys the company much-needed profile management capabilities for controlling which applications and data users receives with their images. Immidio ...
Cloudera buys startup for query optimization
Cloudera has acquired an emerging startup called Xplain.io Inc. to help organizations run their analytic clusters more efficiently. The deal could provide it with needed differentiation amid increased competition from rival Hadoop distributors that are making substantial gains on other fronts. Former Oracle engineer Anupam Singh founded Xplain.io in his back yard 15 months ago together ...
It’s the thing to do: EMC builds app store into VMware-powered converged appliance
App stores and data center equipment apparently go well together, or at least that’s what some vendors seem to believe. Hewlett-Packard offers an application catalog for its software-denied networking platform and now EMC is jumping on the bandwagon with a new converged infrastructure module that offers– you guessed it – a selection of pre-packaged services ...
Continuous integration buzz continues: Investors pour $15 million into Sauce Labs
Sauce Labs Inc. reappeared on the industry radar this morning after raising $15 million to capitalize on the accelerating adoption of continuous integration principles in the traditional enterprise. The investment will help fuel the development of its flagship testing service, which provides a cloud-based environment for organizations to test their customer-facing applications. The three-year-old startup ...
Qumulo bags $40M as clues emerge about mystery storage platform
Qumulo Inc. has landed an additional $40 million in funding from investors to help organizations store their fast-growing data troves more effectively. The stealthy startup is staying deliberately opaque about how it intends to improve the storage equation, but there are a number of public clues available that can help fill in much of the ...
MongoDB 3.0 takes aim at the enterprise
MongoDB Inc. is rolling out a new release of its namesake document database aimed at addressing some of the enterprise requirements that have so far gone overlooked in the rush to move away from traditional relational systems. The version is the first to implement the speedy storage engine that the startup obtained through the acquisition ...
VMware reboots its virtualization stack for the hybrid cloud
Not wanting to keep the industry waiting until its annual user conference in August, VMware held an offbeat webcast on Monday afternoon to introduce the next generation of its cloud technologies. The main highlight of the launch is a new release of vSphere that addresses some of the biggest challenges for the enterprise in the ...
Hortonworks takes Hadoop governance into its own hands with new community initiative
Hortonworks Inc. is launching a new community initiative aimed at tightening the control around the growing amounts of information that organizations are feeding into their Hadoop clusters. The initiative builds on the newly public vendor’s existing efforts to provide much-needed governance capabilities for the data crunching platform. Hortonworks most recently rolled out a certification course for ...
