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Fury over Equifax breach may finally shake enterprises out of cybersecurity stupor
The Equifax Inc. hack may be the alarm bell that finally jolts Congress and large enterprises out of their somnambulance and forces them to do something meaningful about cybersecurity. At least that’s the hope of one of the computer industry’s largest trade associations. Todd Thibodeaux (below), chief executive of the nonprofit CompTIA Inc., said he has ...
Researcher says Equifax executives used ‘alarmingly simplistic’ passwords
Cybersecurity professionals who lament senior executives’ lack of interest in threat protection will find little to cheer about in new findings released Friday by software security firm Comodo Group Inc. Researchers in the company’s Threat Intelligence Lab went to the dark web, a shady part of the Internet accessible through special software called Tor, to ...
Cloud surge drives strong Oracle earnings but outlook puts the brakes on shares
Updated Friday Cloud revenue growth drove strong first-quarter earnings at Oracle Corp. with revenue of $9.2 billion and earnings per share of 62 cents both surpassing analyst expectations. But the database and business software giant’s guidance for the second quarter of its fiscal 2018 appeared to disappoint investors. After initially rising slightly, the stock dropped ...
Looker overhauls core platform with new apps and data sources
Business intelligence company Looker Data Sciences Inc. will use its Join user conference today to announce a major overhaul of its core platform, including the addition of functional applications and new visualizations. The company, which raised a huge $81 million funding round in March, has been gaining momentum with its promise to simplify data extraction processes by pulling ...
IBM refreshes Linux mainframes with security optimized for software containers
Continuing its quest to find relevance for big iron in the age of open systems, IBM Corp. today is announcing a new generation of its LinuxONE mainframes with built-in security for Docker containers and support for Kubernetes orchestration. The announcement comes just a little more than two years after IBM entered the Linux-on-mainframe market via ...
Data Artisans offers smoother on-ramp to stream processing with Apache Flink
Organizations that want to implement stream processing are about to get another boost with a new release of the commercial version of Apache Flink from data Artisans GmbH, a company founded by Flink’s creators. Apache Flink was created to replace the MapReduce component in the big-data software framework Hadoop with a faster engine that can ...
Streamlio bundles open-source projects into real-time streaming engine for enterprises
Startup Streamlio Inc. is betting that organizations are ready for real-time streaming architectures to process their basic data needs, and now it has brought three of the latest open-source technologies to bear on the process. The company’s new real-time analytics suite incorporates the Apache Pulsar publish-and-subscribe engine with Heron, a real-time, distributed, fault-tolerant stream processing engine originally developed at Twitter ...
Dell reports solid quarter despite continued weakness in storage sales
Dell Technologies Inc. slipped to a loss in the second fiscal quarter of 2018 and said enterprise storage revenues undershot targets, but investors seemed largely unfazed, boosting the stock about a half-percentage point in early New York Stock Exchange trading. Consolidated revenue rose 48 percent from a year ago, to $19.3 billion, and gross margins ...
HPE posts strong earnings, but investors are still doubtful
Updated Wednesday Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. finally gave investors something to smile about after a string of disappointing earnings results, handily beating revenue and earnings per share targets and finally showing some year-over-year revenue growth for its fiscal third quarter. Investors rewarded the company with a nearly 5 percent boost in its share price in ...
AI researchers answer 169-year-old chess puzzle: ‘It can’t be done’
Chess aficionados know that the game is one of exponential complexity. The first three moves yield more than 9 million possible board positions and there are nearly 319 billion possible ways to play the first four moves on both sides. That makes solving chess problems unimaginably difficult. That’s one reason the game has long captured ...
