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When more than 13 million secret documents detailing the offshore activities of some of the world’s most prominent people and organizations fall into a journalist’s lap, it presents an exciting dilemma. The data is potentially explosive, but how do you even extract …
HPE announces CEO Meg Whitman will step down, Antonio Neri will take over
Following yet another disappointing quarter, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today announced that Chief Executive Meg Whitman will step down Feb. 1. The departure overshadowed mixed results for HPE’s fiscal fourth quarter and a weaker-than-expected outlook for the current quarter. Investors punished the shares, …
MapR unifies data streams, ratchets up security in new platform release
MapR Technologies Inc. is rolling out a new version of its flagship Converged Data Platform, with a focus on DataOps, a variation on the DevOps rapid application development process that focuses on reducing time and improving the quality of results in data …
Woo plugs AI assistant into tech recruiting process
Highr Pattern Ltd., which runs a recruiting site called Woo that matches employers with passive job seekers, is joining the artificial intelligence parade with an automated headhunter that automatically scouts, approaches and connects candidates with potential employers. The company said its “Helena” …
Survey finds business executives are quickly getting on board the AI train
Big companies are notoriously slow to adopt new technology, but that isn’t how things are shaping up in the area of artificial intelligence, according to a new survey of nearly 500 business executives. The research, which was conducted by Harvard Business Review …
Comtrade broadens data protection scope for Nutanix environments
Comtrade Software Inc. has boosted its Hyperconverged Uptime software for Nutanix Inc.’s Enterprise Cloud Platform. It now includes support for VMware Inc.’s ESX hypervisor along with improved support for Microsoft Corp.’s Exchange and SQL Server, combined disaster recovery and backup for remote office/back …
Bracket says it can head off attacks operating systems don’t see
Bracket Computing Inc. has upped the ante in its security software suite with new protections against a variety of difficult-to-detect attacks. The new feature set, called Server Guard, is part of a workload isolation technology the company calls Metavisor. Similar to a …
Jitterbit banks $25 million investment as API frenzy continues
Application program interface orchestration startup Jitterbit Inc. today said it raised $25 million to boost sales and services as well as to strengthen its international presence. The Series C funding round was led by global investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., which led the …
HPE debuts modular Superdome successor for in-memory computing
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is giving its Superdome in-memory computing platform its first major upgrade in nearly three years with a modular edition that enables customers to start small and scale up to 48 terabytes of memory in a single system. The …
Riverbed broadly enhances SteelCentral SD-WAN performance monitor
Software-defined wide-area network provider Riverbed Technology Inc. has enhanced its Riverbed SteelCentral network performance monitor with better information, improved analytics support and support for containers. The company also announced an alliance with Zscaler Inc. to deliver a secure cloud-based service aimed at branch …