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The software-defined data center puzzle is finally clicking together | #VMworld
VMware Inc. has closed the loop on the software-defined data center, according to the head of its software-defined data center unit. Appearing on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE at the virtualization giant’s recently concluded customer conference in San Francisco, vice president John Gilmartin made the case that the introduction of the NSX network and vSAN storage virtualization solutions ...
Facebook and LinkedIn double down on privacy with new controls
The social media sphere has produced quite a few notable privacy controversies in recent years, a reputation that the top networks are now trying to shake off with new features aimed at enabling users to take responsibility over who can view their personal data into their own hands. Facebook Inc. is leading the way with ...
What you missed in Big Data: Hadoop bandwagon gets even more crowded
Hadoop has once again emerged as the flavor of the week for the industry after Cisco Systems Inc. pulled the curtains back on new solutions in its Unified Computing System (UCS) family of converged infrastructure solution that take aim at the core challenges of deploying the analytics framework in enterprise environments. The new additions to ...
What you missed in Cloud: an odd mishmesh of containers and analytics
Cloud computing may have settled in as a permanent fixture of the enterprise technology landscape, but the chase for the next big thing is not over by any stretch. The hot new technology making headlines today is containerization, which the industry appears to be embracing even faster than the everything-as-a-service mindset. Cisco Systems Inc. became ...
Analyst expectations for Tableau as new rivals emerge
For all the talk of automation among analytics vendors nowadays, data is ultimately only as useful as what the user can take away from it, a fundamental reality of decision-making that was largely glossed over until Tableau Software Inc. came along. The company has exposed the market to a fresh approach of presenting information that ...
Salesforce supports Oculus Rift and other trendy gadgets in wearables push
Salesforce.com Inc. is pushing full-throttle into the connected universe with the addition of support for some of the hottest new gadgets on the market and a landmark professional services initiative aimed at helping large organizations bring those devices into the workplace. The move comes three months after the cloud services stalwart launched a dedicated program ...
HP launches professional services business for OpenStack
Hewlett-Packard Co. may have been late to the party for the OpenStack cloud computing platform, but it’s trying to make up for lost time. The company just rolled out a dedicated consultancy practice that will focus exclusively on helping customer implement the open-source cloud platform in their environments. The launch of the unit comes on ...
Box adds analytics and automation to counter new threats from Amazon
As most traditional retailers and cloud service providers could attest, once Amazon.com Inc. is in the picture, trying to compete on pricing becomes an excerise in futility. That’s why a week after Jeff Bezos’s low-margin juggernaut entered the enterprise file sync market, Box Inc., the leader in that space, has pulled the curtains back on ...
Mainframe software titan Compuware to go private in $2.5B buyout
Compuware Corp. is officially leaving the stock market in a multi-billion-dollar deal that represents the end of another chapter in the history of the Detroit tech scene and provides a long-awaited exit for investors. The announcement of the landmark transaction comes a few short days after an insider leaked to the Wall Street Journal that ...
FireEye brings zero-day protection to Amazon cloud
Even though top providers such as Amazon.com Inc. spend considerably more resources on securing their environments than the majority of traditional IT organizations, many CIOs still mistrust the public cloud. Recognizing an opportunity, FireEye Inc. is looking to elevate some of those concerns with a new release of its flagship security service that works with ...