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What you missed in Cloud: The focus turns to data
Last week saw thousands of public cloud professionals descend upon Chicago for AWS Summit 2016, where Amazon Inc. introduced a host of improvements for its infrastructure-as-a-service platform. The main focus of the rollout was the vendor’s storage lineup, which received two new low-cost disk options and a network optimization service for speeding the migration of ...
The start of a trend? Juniper unveils Docker-powered firewall for defending the corporate network
Docker was deemed too insecure for serious production use by Gartner Inc. as recently as last January, but 15 months is a long time in the open-source ecosystem. Since the assessment was published, the engine has evolved to the point where it’s now trusted by some vendors to power their breach prevention software. Juniper Networks ...
Year’s first tech IPO flops: Dell SecureWorks misses price target
Five months since the start of the year, it appears that Wall Street still hasn’t fully regained its appetite for tech IPOs. Dell Inc. experienced the market’s reduced interest first hand yesterday after putting shares of its SecureWorks subsidiary up for grabs and raising only $112 million out of the minimum $140 million that it’d ...
Alphabet’s GV contributes to $30M round into security startup Anomali
When a technology heavyweight like Alphabet Inc. invests in a startup, it’s always worth paying extra attention to the announcement. The latest addition to its portfolio is Anomali Inc., which raised a total of $30 million from the search giant and three other institutional backers as part of a funding round that was publicized this ...
Sysdig raises $15M for its open-source Docker monitoring tool
Since Docker is still relatively new to the enterprise, adopters have fewer monitoring tools to choose from than an organization using traditional virtualization software. But the gap is closing rapidly thanks to providers like Sysdig Inc., which today announced the completion of a $15 million funding round led by Accel Partners and Bain Capital Ventures. ...
SAS revamps its analytics lineup for the machine learning era
At its annual user summit in Las Vegas today, analytics giant SAS Institute Inc. unveiled a new data crunching framework that is set to power all of its future software products. Viya, as the software is called, can be deployed either on in-house infrastructure or in the cloud and makes its features accessible through a ...
Diamanti exists stealth with a converged appliance for running containers
One of the main reasons behind the popularity of containers is that they make it much easier to deploy applications than traditional virtualization software. But the technology doesn’t live up to the promise all the time, especially when it comes to enterprise workloads with complex operational requirements. A newly launched startup called Diamanti Inc. is trying ...
Threat Stack nabs $15.4M in funding to bolster its cloud security platform
Security startups are making the most out of the venture capital community’s growing interest in network protection software. Last week, Switzerland’s Nexthink SA raised $40 million to fund the development of new features for its endpoint monitoring platform, and now the Boston-based Threat Stack Inc. is joining the fray as well with the announcement of ...
Red Hat targets new OpenStack distribution at hybrid cloud environments
Among the vendors that have reserved a booth at next week’s OpenStack Summit is Red Hat Inc., which is set to showcase several major enhancements to its distribution of the platform that were pre-announced today. The perhaps most notable of the bunch is the inclusion of Ceph, an open-source storage engine that holds a special place ...
Bugcrowd, the startup that runs Tesla Motors’ bug bounty program, lands $15M
The likes of Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. actively encourage the public to report security flaws in their services with the promise of financial reward, but a payout alone isn’t sufficient to make a bug bounty program successful. Equally important is the ability to reach a large number of talented individuals with the expertise to spot hidden ...