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Larry Ellison steps down at the top of his game, leaves “top lieutenants to mind the store”
After 35 years heading Oracle Corp., Larry Ellison is stepping down as CEO of the software company he founded. Splitting the newly opened CEO position are Mark Hurd and Safra Catz, current co-presidents of Oracle. Hurd will run sales, marketing and strategy while Catz will remain the company’s chief financial officer and oversee legal and ...
Have containers solved the BYOD security problem?
Less than ten percent of businesses have a comprehensive security policy in place to protect employee-owned devices, according to a recent Compass Intelligence survey, leaving the vast majority of the Bring Your Own Anything (BYOx) market open to hackers and phishing attacks. Containerization is one method of separating device and corporate data with the intent to ...
For scouting talent, there’s only one crowdfund for this smart home heavyweight
There’s no shortage of innovation in the smart home market. Now two of the top companies in that sector are teaming up to nurture the ideas they think will shape the home of the future. Icontrol Networks, Inc. the software platform behind Time Warner Cable, Inc.’s home automation suite, today announced a partnership with crowdfunding ...
Nutanix could’ve gotten more than $140M in fresh funding round, says analyst
The big news being discussed at VMworld 2014 this morning is the Nutanix, Inc. Series E funding round, which generated $140 million in financing. Nutanix, which provides a cost-effective method to move data around in the enterprise, is now valued at $2 billion, having raised a total of over $300 million in funding. That valuation ...
VMware CEO details offensive strategy for containers, open source | #vmworld
Enabling brave, new IT is the bumper sticker theme Pat Gelsinger put on his keynote presentation on Day 1 of VMworld. The VMware, Inc. CEO outlined his new vision for the company, how it fits into the EMC, Corp. federation strategy, and what his offensive moves will be in the coming year to curb ...
How VMware is tackling the final obstacles towards a fully-automated hybrid cloud | #vmworld
This morning I received a story suggestion for our coverage of the VMworld conference going on this week – a decoder ring of products from the event host VMware, Inc. Given VMware’s latest product launches and rebranding efforts, that story suggestion is sounding better and better. Announced in the days leading up to VMworld and ...
Top BYOx security tools used by the experts
Wearable shipments are on track to grow tenfold over the next few years, reaching 150 million devices (and worth $19 billion) by 2018, according to Juniper Research. And as mobile devices continue to infiltrate everyday life, the consumer impact on enterprise environments poses a threat to organizational security. The Bring Your Own Anything (BYOx) movement ...
4 experts on how BYOx changed the way company data is managed
The spotlight on corporate data tends to focus on protected information, like financial data or limited access files. But in today’s world of Bring Your Own Anything (BYOx), corporate data can easily mingle with an employee’s personal data, such as family photos, social media accounts and even productivity apps they choose to use for work. ...
Chat LIVE with EMC’s Jeremy Burton : “Ask me anything”
It’s a mega-launch day for EMC, with a new storage line up designed for cloud, Big Data and software-led infrastructure. Unveiling a string of new product releases today, EMC addresses its dropping storage sales head on with the availability of EMC Elastic Cloud Storage, XtremIO 3.0’s new inline data services, and a performance boost with ...
MapR funding signals slow-rolling IPO, support for hybrid business model
Mere weeks after Cloudera earned funding support from Intel for its Hadoop-driven Big Data platform, rival MapR revealed its own massive round of $110 million in combined equity and debt financing. The $80 million growth capital portion of this round was led by Google Capital, hinting at the search giant’s own vision for the business ...
