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Google Acquires Security Analytics Software Developer Zynamics
Google’s made a sly acquisition today, taking in analytics firm Zynamics. According to a brief blog post, the acquired security analytics software developer Zynamics is headed to one of the cloud’s most prominent data crunchers. Zynamics develops offensive and defensive security reverse engineering tools. The company’s offerings, which include BinDiff, BinNavi, VxClass, BinCrowd and PDF ...
Privacy: AT&T and Facebook, All Over Again
Today we’ve seen a couple of new – and major – privacy related updates. The first one comes from WSJ, who reports the Supreme Court refused to extend personal-privacy rights to corporations in case 09-1279, Federal Communications Commission v. AT&T. Chief Justice John Roberts stated it’s nothing personal. “The case concerned AT&T’s effort to block public disclosure ...
GigaSpaces Partners up with Excelian, heads to Finance and Gaming
Virtualized application platforms maker GigaSpaces announced a partnership with London-based Excelian, a technology consulting company with 250 staffers. The partnership is meant to extend GigaSpaces’ reach to finance services and gaming companies. “We chose to work with GigaSpaces because it is battle proven in the industries in which we work,” says Adam Vile, PhD, Senior ...
Personal Cloud Management Shines at DEMO 2011, Pushes Consumer Trends
The Demo Spring 2011 conference introduced us quite a bit of interesting new technologies (including educational mindreading headsets), but personal cloud management was a segment which got a particularly large amount of attention. The trend signifies ongoing industry development around the personal cloud, which is taking a path similar to enterprise cloud structures, as far ...
McAfee Security Buy Ushers Intel Into New Era
Intel announced it has completed the acquisition of security giant McAfee; a $7.68 billion all cash deal announced in last August. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of Intel, McAfee will continue to develop and sell security offerings under its brand. McAfee will report to Intel’s Software and Services Group, which is led by Intel senior VP and ...
Clearspring Turns the Spotlight on Oscar’s Big Data
Millions of viewers all over the world tuned in to catch the Oscars last night, a bar-setting event that determines the direction of the entertainment sector for the following year. This year’s ceremony represented the entertainment sector’s leap beyond TV alone, and featured several indicators of this ongoing transition. These indicators included the Oscar Backstage ...
Cisco and Citrix Get (More) Socially Responsible
Every large corporation has a certain amount of resources set aside for corporate partner education, training sessions, webinars, investment funds, all meant to stimulate research and development and so on. Cisco and Citrix are two of the members in this club, and they both some interesting news today circling their social responsibly. The first highlight ...
DEMO Spring 2011 Takes CRM, Big Data to the Next Level
The DEMO Spring 2011 conference held today brings together an extraordinary number of start-ups and inactive products under one roof, including, among others, Nimble. The start-up launched Nimble Contact into public data – a social CRM solution. The cloud-based offering integrates social networking, Google Apps, e-mail and business contacts, and aims to allow business users ...
The Story Of How Netflix Pwnd Blockbuster, and Everyone Else [Infographic]
The story of Netflix’s rise and Blockbuster’s subsequent bankruptcy is nothing new, but a recent infographic gives us a visual perspective on the chain of events that have shifted an entire sector of the entertainment industry. Starting with some present day stats, Netflix’s North American subscriber base exceeds the 20 million mark – about the size of ...
This Week’s CloudANGLE: Cisco vs. Juniper Networks, Google vs. Microsoft
This past week has seen quite a bit of updates from the cloud, and Juniper Networks and Cisco topped the list. Juniper Networks finally unveiled the end result of Project Stratus, a 3-year $100 million investment which spawned 125 new patents. QFabric, as it’s now called, is a new datacenter cloud fabric designed to reduce network ...