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Carbon Black buys endpoint protection startup Confer to bolster its security cloud
Weeks after two of the world’s biggest antivirus providers announced plans to merge in a $1.3 billion deal, the endpoint protection market is undergoing another round of consolidation. Carbon Black Inc. announced this morning that it’s acquired a competitor called Confer Technologies Inc. that has developed a system for protecting employee devices. The platform provides threat ...
Skycure raises $16.5M for its mobile threat sensor
Though regulating access to company data and fending off malware are two sides of the same coin when it comes to mobile security, organizations have historically had to handle the tasks separately. This decentralized approach is becoming less and less effective as hackers step up their efforts to target employee-owned devices. Fortunately, Palo Alto’s Skycure ...
Opera reworks its $1.2BN sale to Chinese group in bid to bypass regulatory hurdles
Shareholders of Opera Software ASA won’t be receiving the big payout that they were promised when it accepted a $1.2 billion buyout offer from a Chinese consortium in February. The browser maker announced today that the deal fell through after failing to receive regulatory approval in the pre-allotted time frame. Fortunately, management has come up ...
What you missed in Big Data: Machine learning gains yet more momentum
Companies large and small are embracing machine learning in a bid to make better use of their data. Last week, eBay Inc. led the charge by acquiring SalesPredict Ltd., an Israeli startup that uses the technology help marketers gain a better understanding of their customers. Its cloud service can analyze a company’s sales records to ...
What you missed in Cloud: New features and acquisitions
Last week saw the competition in the public cloud reach another new height after Baidu Inc. rolled out three separate sets of developer tools for its infrastructure-as-a-service platform. The additions target the media processing, analytics and connected device management use cases that better-established rivals like Amazon Inc. have been focusing on lately. The update puts ...
Report: VMware is working on a cloud-based HPC service
More than a month ahead of VMware Inc.’s annual Las Vegas conference, the rumor mill is already starting to churn. An anonymous insider told CRN this week that the vendor plans to launch a high-performance computing (HPC) service for vCloud Air at the event in a bid to broaden the platform’s appeal. The tipster didn’t ...
Microsoft Azure now offers a visual dashboard for tracking your cloud expenses
Monitoring resource consumption in Azure is about to become much easier for customers. Microsoft Corp. today open-sourced a reporting system it calls the Usage and Billing Portal that provides the ability to visually track all of an organization’s cloud expenses, even if they’re spread out over multiple accounts. Administrators can implement the dashboard manually or use ...
AWS could be getting a native IDE in wake of Amazon’s Cloud9 acquisition
After seeing DigitalOcean Inc. become the industry’s second largest cloud provider on the back of its developer following, Amazon Inc. is moving to making its rivaling infrastructure-as-a-service platform more appealing to programmers. The company today acquired a San Francisco startup called Cloud9 IDE Inc. that has created a hosted workspace for building web and mobile ...
Silicon Valley and Wall St. giants shower $9M on risk analytics startup CyberGRX
Less than 24 hours after network protection provider Bay Dynamics Inc. closed a $23 million funding round, the security space is marking yet another high-profile investment. Denver-based risk analytics startup CyberGRX Inc. today announced that it’s raised $9 million from a group of investors consisting of some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley and ...
Security analytics specialist Bay Dynamics raises $23M amid growing competition
Most of the funding that is flowing into the security market nowadays goes to early stage startups, but the investment community is also willing to bet on more established players when an opportunity presents itself. The latest example is Bay Dynamics Inc., a 15-year-old breach prevention provider that today secured $23 million in financing from ...