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What you missed in Big Data: Acquisitions are reshaping the analytics world
When an established vendor identifies a gap in its product lineup, acquiring a startup with the necessary technology is often faster and more convenient than trying to build a competing solution from scratch. The latest example of this dynamic came last week when Workday Inc. scooped up Platfora Inc. to obtain its namesake business intelligence ...
What you missed in Cloud: Security and machine learning top the agenda
The one-upmanship in the public cloud continued as usual last week, with several major providers rolling out new features for their infrastructure-as-a-service platforms. Microsoft Corp. led the charge by launching a breach prevention tool called Azure Security Center that aims to help customers deal with hacking attempts more effectively. The service’s arguably biggest selling is ...
Workday picks up BI startup Platfora to boost analytics chops
A month after acquiring Zaption Inc. for its online learning platform, Workday Inc. is making another strategic startup buy. The HR automation giant this week signed an agreement to purchase a venture-backed analytics provider called Platfora Inc. that sells Apache Spark-powered business intelligence software. The outfit harnesses the open-source analytics engine’s performance to help organizations ...
Salesforce buys monitoring startup Coolan to optimize its internal infrastructure
Providing cloud services on the kind of global scale that Salesforce.com Inc. does involves a tremendous amount of work behind the scenes. To try and ease the load on its IT division, the company this week acquired Coolan Inc., a San Mateo startup focused on automating data center monitoring operations. The outfit has developed a ...
LinkedIn open-sources a speedy mobile cache touted as better than Apple’s
The latest open-source contribution from LinkedIn isn’t an analytics engine, server design or some other bleeding-edge backend technology for a change. Instead, the social media giant is releasing a caching system called Rocket Data that aims to help mobile developers improve the performance of their apps. The project was born in early 2015 when LinkedIn launched ...
RSA combines its access management products into a single toolkit
Balancing security and usability is a challenge that the IT industry has been grappling with for decades. The latest attempt to ease the task comes from RSA Security LLC, which is rolling out a new access management toolkit today that promises to help organizations fine-tune how they regulate user activity. The main component of the ...
Snowflake supercharges its cloud-based data warehouse
Though only a fraction of traditional enterprises have moved their business intelligence operations outside the firewall to date, the cloud-based data warehouse market is already fiercely competitive. One of the main contenders is a startup called Snowflake Computing Inc. that is moving to cement its position this morning by rolling out a set of automation ...
Microsoft Stream is a YouTube-like service for sharing videos in the workplace
Vendors are getting serious about addressing organizations’ internal video content. Last month, Workday Inc. acquired a video course startup called Zaption Inc. to bolster its corporate training business, and now Microsoft Corp. is joining the fray too with a new YouTube-like service called Stream. ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley reports that the offering is meant to succeed the ...
Brocade’s beefy new FC director can provide up to 16 TBps of bandwidth
Storage-attached network vendors are beefing up their products to address the rapid increase in data center I/O traffic that the widening adoption of flash arrays is driving. Leading the effort is Brocade Technologies Inc., which today introduced a new director-class switch series that is hailed as the first in the industry to implement the Gen 6 Fibre Channel (FC) protocol. ...
Deception-based security gains steam as GuardiCore raises $20M
Organizations have historically dealt with breach attempts by trying to block the hacker as fast as possible and only stopping to investigate after the fact. But now, the security community is starting to adopt a new approach: Letting attacks play out in controlled conditions to gain a deeper understanding of the threat. The method is ...