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HITRUST Says Healthcare Industry Can’t Protect its Data
The latest report from the Health Information Trust Alliance sheds new light on the state of cybersecurity in the healthcare industry. HITRUST’s statistics suggest that while the some progress has been made in the past few years, the industry as a whole is not yet equipped to properly ensure patients’ privacy. The organization says that ...
HootSuite Grows App Directory with Nimble Integration, Full CRM Features
Nimble, a maker of social management tools for the enterprise, announced today that it’s integrating its platform with HootSuite. The cloud dashboard provider offers features that compliment that of Nimble’s own software. “Social media is moving beyond the early adoption by marketing and community managers to the rest of a company’s customer facing business professionals. ...
Pica8 Debuts Industry First OpenFlow Architecture
Pica8 is the latest SDN startup to have exited stealth in the past few weeks. And like its predecessors, the Palo Alto-based firm also has its own unique approach to software-defined networking. Pica8’s flagship offering is a new reference architecture for service providers that takes full advantage of the existing technology in the market. The ...
The Big Data Review: Facebook Ads, MapR and Cloudera’s $65M Thursday
The past week had some rather noteworthy tidbits coming out of the big data space. For one, Facebook demonstrated that it takes more than just technical skills to make analytics work for your bottom line. We’ve learned that the social media giant agreed to pay $20 million to settle a class-action suit that accused it ...
Michael Dell & Larry Ellison Agree On One Thing: Autonomy Was Overpriced
“It was shopped to us as well,” Michael Dell said in an interview discussing Autonomy, “[but] not at that price.” The entrepreneur disclosed for the first time this week that Autonomy was offered up to his company, but that he declined the proposition for the same reason Oracle head Larry Ellison was so critical of ...
HP’s Michael Callahan Walks Us Through Security in the Cloud
Michael Callahan, the head of marketing for HP’s security business, stopped by theCube at HP Discover 2012 to discuss how enterprises should secure their environments in the age of cloud apps, mobile devices and big data. He starts out by emphasizing that it’s not only enterprise IT that got more complicated in the past few ...
The Cloud Review: VMware’s App Play, Adobe’s Cloud Games and Nirvanix
The past week was a busy one for us and the crew of the theCube in particular, who traveled all the way to Frankfurt in order to bring us the latest from HP Discover 2012. You can find all the interviews and product announcements from the conference at SiliconAngle’s YouTube channel. Discover may have been ...
Citrix Buys Zenprise to Boost Mobile Portfolio
Citrix sent out word this week that it’s buying Zenprise, a firm known for its enterprise BYOD solutions. Terms of the deal were not disclosed but we can speculate it was substantial transaction: Zenprise raised $64.5 million in venture capital prior to the acquisition. Sumit Dhawan, the head of mobile for Citrix, explained the reasoning ...
Dell Replaces Storage Chief After Consistent Revenue Decline
Darren Thomas, the man who ran Dell’s enterprise storage business for the last decade, has left the company to pursue new opportunities, according to a company spokeswoman. And the newly vacated position already has two contenders: “Darren Thomas has decided to pursue a new opportunity outside of Dell. … Alan Atkinson, vice president and general ...
MapR Sets Up Shop in Europe, Can’t Afford To Be Anything But Aggressive with Global Growth
MapR is opening up a new outlet in London, England to serve as its European headquarters. The expansion is designed to give the Hadoop distributor a strong foothold in a region where many of its customers and partners reside. The latter category includes not only system integrators but also EMC, Cisco and other big name ...