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Plexxi’s upgraded networking stack makes SDN more accessible for enterprises
The software-defined networking crowd is working hard to broaden the appeal of its value proposition in a bid to increase demand among enterprises. One of the vendors leading the effort is Plexxi Inc., which today announced a major update for its switching platform that promises to ease several important management tasks. The first is the ...
DigitalOcean launches a fast SSD-based block storage service
It looks like DigitalOcean Inc. has been putting the $130 million line of credit that it took out five months ago to good use. Following numerous user requests, the provider is adding a block storage service to its public cloud today that offers speedy SSD-based capacity starting at $0.1 per gigabyte per month. The price ...
Indegy raises $12M to secure the world’s industrial infrastructure
Industrial control systems can be found at almost every organization that operates heavy machinery, from the energy companies drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico to the world’s leading electronics makers. As a result, they’re a natural target for hackers. This growing threat is creating demand for specialized industrial security software that an Israeli ...
Microsoft has a bold new plan for driving Windows 10 and Surface adoption in the enterprise
Hot on the heels of announcing a joint connected device push with General Electric Co., Microsoft Corp. has unleashed another round of updates at its partner conference in Toronto today. The main highlight is a pricing shakeup that is poised to make Windows 10 and the Surface Pro much more accessible to organizations. On the ...
Chef’s new flagship DevOps platform aims to automate the entire application lifecycle
After a fairly uneventful first day at Chef Software Inc.’s user conference in Austin this week, the show is kicking into high gear. The company announced a new flagship offering called Chef Automate this morning that combines all of its standalone application automation tools into a single integrated platform. Creating all-in-one product suites has emerged ...
GE is bringing its Internet of Things platform to Microsoft’s cloud
The star of Microsoft Corp.’s annual partner event in Toronto this week isn’t one of its numerous allies from the software market or the data center equipment world, but rather General Electric Co. Jeff Immelt, the industrial giant’s chief executive, appeared on the stage yesterday with Satya Nadella to announce that their firms are joining ...
Report: HPE looks to sell Autonomy and other key software units
Less than a year after separating from its former consumer electronics arm, Hewlett Packard Enterprise could be bracing for another major shake-up. Anonymous insiders told Bloomberg this morning that the company is in the early stages of an effort to sell several key software divisions. The biggest unit on the auction block is reportedly Autonomy, the ...
FirstJob’s Mya is the latest chatbot that aims to automate recruiting
Automating human resource management is emerging as a key focus for the chatbot movement. The latest startup to have taken up the cause is the San Francisco-based FirstJob Inc., which this morning unveiled an artificial intelligent called Mya that aims to streamline the task of vetting and interviewing job candidates. The software was born from ...
What you missed in Big Data: Visual analytics gaining steam
As the number of knowledge workers who use analytics continues to grow, so is the demand for data visualization tools that can ease the task of viewing and sharing information. The trend is generating a lot of new revenue for dashboarding providers like Carto Inc., which last week introduced a self-service version of its platform ...
What you missed in Cloud: CRM and image recognition top the agenda
The top cloud providers continue investing aggressively in feature development to stay ahead of the market. Microsoft Corp. set the pace for the industry last week by revealing plans to merge its popular sales automation and resource management services into a single suite called Dynamics 365. According to the official blog post in which the news ...