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VMware signals big expansion plans in runup to VMworld
VMworld doesn’t start until today, but the floodgates are already wide open. VMware Inc. set the tone for its much-anticipated event after leaking a series of major updates that would normally have been reserved for the keynote address days ahead of the official kickoff, beginning with one of its most important acquisitions in recent memory. ...
Millions of patients’ data hacked in “first confirmed” Heartbleed heist
Community Health Systems (CHS) Inc. has become the latest U.S. institution to come forward about falling victim to Chinese hackers after admitting in an SEC filing last week that personally identifiable information about millions of patients was stolen over the course of two separate attacks in April and June. An investigation conducted on behalf of ...
VMware revamps its public cloud with a new name, cleaner partner program
As its annual customer conference opens in San Francisco this week, VMware Inc. is providing a taste of things to come with the release of two significant cosmetic updates for its public cloud that send a message of seriousness to the ecosystem and partners in particular. First, the virtualization giant has rebranded the platform from ...
Software is eating data science | #HPBigData2014
Automation is sending the data scientist the same way as the switchboard operator, according to Brian Weiss, the man who Hewlett-Packard Co. appointed to help along the transition. As the head of subject matter experts for the company’s Autonomy business, he is in charge of finding specialists with deep knowledge in their respective fields and ...
Toppling the operational obstacles behind McGladrey’s Backup-as-a-Service | #CubeConversations
Keeping an entire enterprise’s worth of information protected is no simple task, let alone if that company happens to employ a geographically distributed organizational structure and competes in an industry where the storage and management of data is heavily regulated. That’s the situation at McGladrey LLP, whose head of infrastructure, Tom Jackson, appeared on the ...
Steve Ballmer officially departs Microsoft leadership with board resignation
Six months after passing over the torch to Satya Nadella, former Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer has announced his resignation from the board of directors with a heartfelt letter urging his successor to avoid making the same mistakes he did. Hand picked by Bill Gates in 1980 as the then-emerging operating system maker’s first business ...
Canadian startup nets $1.1M for its bid to build analytics for the rest of us
Enterprises have largely caught on to the potential of Big Data analytics, but the complexity of digesting and interpreting data has left many small companies out of the loop. Toronto-based startup Vantage Analytics, Inc. just raised $1.1 million in seed capital to fund its effort to deliver a suite of modules for Shopify Inc.’s popular e-commerce ...
Analysts praise latest Cisco job cuts as needed stage in smart migration strategy
Cisco Systems Inc. is moving to eliminate another 6,000 jobs in what is at least the fourth major round of cuts since 2009 as part of an effort by CEO John Chambers to free up resources to focus on growth areas like security and the cloud, where the company has been investing particularly aggressively recently. ...
Software-defined surprises expected at VMworld 2014 | #CubeConversations
Virtualization stalwart VMware Inc. has a lot in store for its annual customer event in San Francisco next week. The company is keeping a tight lid on the details, but Wikibon co-founder Dave Vellante and senior analyst Stu Miniman, a recipient of the prestigious vExpert title from VMworld 2012, have a pretty good idea of ...
Dell brings global monitoring to VMware’s software-defined data center theme party
VMware Inc.’s annual customer conference next week is expected to see the virtualization stalwart extend its tentacles deeper into the storage layer and the network, a theme that the ecosystem has been predictability quick to pick up on. Dell Inc. became the latest partner on the bandwagon this morning with the announcement of a preview ...