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SonicWall report paints sobering picture of cyberthreat trends
SonicWall Inc., the network security provider that spun out of Dell Technologies Inc. in 2016, today released its 2019 Cyber Threat Report, and the results don’t make happy reading for security personnel. The findings, which were gleaned from the company’s network of more than 1 million sensors around the world, finds that malware attacks grew 22 percent ...
Ctera adds edge file server based on HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged platform
Ctera Networks Ltd. today expanded its line of hyperconverged platforms for distributed organizations with a new model that manages data across multiple clouds. The Ctera X Series combines a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. SimpliVity processor with Ctera’s global file system to support edge storage with unified access across a corporate network. The Israel-based company describes its ...
VMware refreshes cloud portfolio with its first native hyperconverged appliance
Showing more confidence that its hybrid and multicloud strategies are finding favor with enterprise customers, VMware Inc. today is expanding both the functional and geographic scope of its services. In particular, the company introduced a version of its Cloud Foundation migration product that runs natively on a hyperconverged hardware platform, which combines computing, storage and ...
Io-Tahoe upgrades data catalog to spot and tag personal info in data streams
Io-Tahoe LLC, a unit of British utility giant Centrica PLC, today is enhancing its machine learning-driven data catalog with features that it says can discover and classify streaming data. The capability can be used, among other things, to discover personally identifiable data while it’s still in motion to enable better regulatory compliance. The privately held ...
CYBERSECURITY SPECIAL REPORT
In cybersecurity, it’s AI vs. AI: Will the good guys or the bad guys win?
Artificial intelligence research group OpenAI last month made the unusual announcement: It had built an AI-powered content creation engine so sophisticated that it wouldn’t release the full model to developers. Anyone who works in cybersecurity immediately knew why. Phishing emails, which try to trick recipients into clicking malicious links, originated 91 percent of all cyberattacks ...
VMware crushes earnings forecasts on larger deals and diversified products
Updated: Amid a quarterly earnings season that’s a mixed bag for infrastructure players, VMware Inc. furnished the best evidence yet that it has successfully navigated the transition from server specialist to strategic information technology partner. The virtualization giant today reported fiscal fourth-quarter revenue and profits that both handily beat analyst estimates on the strength of ...
With major overhaul, VMware moves closer to ‘NSX everywhere’ ambitions
VMware Inc. today is rolling out what it says is the most significant upgrade ever to its NSX network virtualization software, one that decouples the network from the VMware hypervisor. The upgrade essential decouples the network from VMware’s hypervisor, the software that runs virtual machines, or computers emulated in software. VMware’s NSX-T Data Center 2.4 and ...
HPE’s earnings and outlook beat forecasts, but sales growth stalls
Updated: Despite reporting better-than-expected earnings and raising its 2019 forecast Thursday, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. Friday saw its shares move sideways as investors digested some mixed results. Initially HPE’s stock rose more than 3 percent in after-hours trading Thursday after the veteran enterprise computing company’s profit per share jumped 31 percent from a year ago, to ...
Talend shares surge 20% on strong cloud revenue growth
Updated: Shares of Talend SA jumped surged nearly 14 percent in after-hours trading today on an unexpectedly narrower loss in its fiscal fourth quarter. The company also showed good progress in its March to the cloud, with sales of Talend Cloud reaching 25 percent of new annual recurring revenue or ARR in the quarter and ...
AI SPECIAL REPORT
IBM brings Watson AI to any cloud
With public cloud providers competing to be the favored destination for their customers’ artificial intelligence projects, IBM Corp. has decided to bring its Watson technology out from behind the Big Blue firewall for the first time. At its flagship Think 2019 conference in San Francisco today, IBM is announcing that Watson will now be available ...
