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BMC empowers DevOps software development with free workflow simulator
BMC Software Inc. is targeting DevOps devotees with Control-M Workbench, a no-cost, self-service, standalone development environment that builds upon the capability of the Control-M Automation application programming interface it introduced last year. The API enables developers in a DevOps environment to automate workflows in a self-service process that’s compatible with DevOps’ agile release philosophy, which involves software developers ...
SAP ports planning suite to Hana warehouse
SAP SE is giving its customers another nudge toward adopting its Hana hybrid transactional/analytical database with the announcement today of the SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 11.0 for SAP Business Warehouse/4Hana. Billed as a unified platform for planning, budgeting, forecasting and financial consolidation, the new version exploits specific features of the BW/4Hana in-memory data warehouse ...
GE targets power industry with broad Predix update
General Electric Co. is letting no grass grow under the feet of its Predix platform-as-a-service for the industrial Internet of Things. After recently signing a deal to test its instrumentation software at Invenergy LLC following the earlier acquisition of two data intelligence startups, the company said Monday it’s expanding its power and utility portfolio to connect energy ...
Security firm Vidder can now foil attackers at the application level
Vidder Inc. has added endpoint trust assessment to its PrecisionAccess software-defined perimeter product, which provides access protection at the software application level. The company’s approach is based upon the Software-Defined Perimeter initiative that is being developed by the Cloud Security Alliance. SDP is essentially an evolution of network access control, or NAC, that provides a finer-grained level ...
Big data firm Hortonworks revamps pricing to cover both on-premises and cloud
Hortonworks Inc. is kicking off its DataWorks Summit in San Jose, California, this week with the announcement of a new software support subscription that provides unified pricing to organizations as they move between on-premises and Amazon Web Services Inc.-based cloud deployments. Hortonworks Flex provides a single Hortonworks Data Platform subscription that is transferable between cloud ...
In the Buckeye State, an innovative cybersecurity collaboration experiment takes root
Columbus, Ohio, doesn’t come immediately to mind as a center of high-tech excellence. But thanks to a thriving new experiment in corporate collaboration, the Buckeye State capital is now beginning to turn some heads in tech — in the increasingly challenging area of information security, no less. The Columbus Collaboratory was formed three years ago ...
Dell blames component shortages for slowing growth rate
Saying it is holding or increasing market share in all its core markets, Dell Technologies Inc. reported net revenue of $17.8 billion in its fiscal first quarter revenue, up 46 percent from a year ago. However, the growth rate was down from the 58 percent the company reported in the previous quarter, a fact that officials ...
Sumo Logic seeks to disrupt pricing for log analytics
Sumo Logic Inc., a well-funded log management and analytics startup, has introduced a new pricing scheme and expanded data ingestion capabilities to its core product, which provides an analytics layer that companies can use to manage applications. The company said these enhancements, announced Tuesday, add up to the first cloud-native application management platform to provide a ...
HPE launches community to fuel technology, market development for ‘The Machine’
Seeking to build momentum behind the most ambitious project to emerge from its laboratories in a decade, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today announced the formation of a user group for technologists, developers and industry experts interested in programming for what it calls the “Memory-Driven Computing environment.” HPE said it will facilitate the group, providing training, ...
MapR pushes deeper into storage market with cloud-scale data store
In a crowded market for big-data platforms, vendors struggle to find differentiation points. Today’s announcement by MapR Technologies Inc. indicates that it has concluded that the data storage platform is one of them. That’s the apparent impetus behind MapR-XD, a cloud-scale data store that the vendor says can manage distributed networks of files, objects and containers as ...
