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Remo ups ante on home device management with Avast integration
The explosion of smartphones and tablets sweeping through the enterprise mirrors the growing number of connected devices in the average household, where the same problems facing CIOs today are beginning to crop up, albeit on a smaller scale. In a world of multiple platforms, ensuring consistent data access and privacy is more difficult than ever. ...
The world’s “fastest growing” cloud provider raises $37M to recruit top-tier talent
DigitalOcean, an emerging cloud provider that is apparently growing faster than AWS, has just closed a $37.2 million Series A financing led by prominent Silicon Valley VC Andreessen Horowitz. The funding represents a huge vote of confidence in the startup, which is punching above its weight in an ultra-competitive market dominated by some of the ...
Unlocking business insights in the data-driven enterprise | #BigDataSV
Organizations have a lot of valuable data laying around, most of it locked away in aging silos that are difficult to manage and even harder to get to. This lack of accessibility poses a fundamental stumbling block for CIOs undertaking Big Data initiatives, especially in large enterprises and highly regulated companies that are subject to ...
CloudBees pockets $11M for enterprise Java PaaS
CloudBees announced this morning that it has secured $11.2 million in a third round of funding led by the investment arm of Verizon, with which it partnered earlier this year. New investor Blue Cloud Ventures and existing backers Matrix Partners and LightSpeed Venture Partners also contributed to the funding, which brings the total raised to ...
VMware snatches Amazon cloud guru
VMware hopes to halt Amazon’s advance on its data center turf by taking the fight to the public cloud with vCloud Hybrid Service, an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offering that has the advantage of being fully interoperable with existing deployments of its hypervisor. On the heels of launching the product in Europe, the virtualization giant appointed former ...
Oracle tackles mobile security with new enterprise suite
In the wake of the Big Data explosion, Oracle has found itself playing catch-up on several fronts. Now, faced with growing pressure from investors to offset weakening demand for its proprietary software and declining maintenance revenues, the firm is doubling down on product development in an attempt to make up for lost time and get ...
Another SDN first, Broadcom unveils OpenFlow switch implementation
The combination of open source software and commodity hardware holds the potential for unprecedented efficiency and operational agility but, despite the success of Web-scale giants like Google and Facebook in implementing this paradigm, it has yet to prove itself in the enterprise. There remain significant barriers to adoption, notably the immaturity of the underlying technologies ...
Dell steps up its security game, expands cloud partnership in latest mobile gambit
Consistent user experience and security are the two top priorities in the mobile enterprise, and Dell is going for both. The vendor recently announced an expanded partnership with cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) firm NetSuite to provide consulting, implementation and support services to customers migrating from on-premise deployments. “The collaboration with NetSuite can help customers ...
Weekly cloud review: Pivotal, IBM move the industry forward
It’s been a big week for the cloud ecosystem, with Pivotal announcing that it will establish an independent foundation to oversee Cloud Foundry. Popular among developers for its scalability and relative ease of use, the platform-as-a-service solution was scooped up by VMware as part of the SpringSource acquisition, open sourced two years later and eventually ...
IBM further consolidates hardware biz as it retools around cloud, Watson
The industry’s old guard is undergoing an historic transformation as it repositions for the mega-trends that are changing how IT services are consumed and delivered in the enterprise. Hewlett-Packard and Dell are both pursuing aggressive restructuring plans in an effort to diversify beyond a rapidly shrinking PC market, while more entrenched vendors such as EMC ...
