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xMatters wants to solve DevOps’ communications problem
The first step toward bringing a downed server back online or undoing a botched patch is finding the right person for the task, which is easier said than done in a large enterprise with thousands of employees. Alerting provider xMatters Inc. has carved out a respectable niche for itself helping organizations overcome the challenge that ...
What you missed in Big Data: Training AIs
Last week witnessed yet another escalation in the fight to win over the hearts and minds of the machine learning community. The first shot came from Google Inc., which open-sourced a homegrown automation framework designed to simplify the deployment of the complex algorithms used in recommendation engines and ad delivery platforms. TensorFlow Serving provides the ...
What you missed in Cloud: Reining in off-premise records
Renting hardware resources from a cloud provider is much more convenient than buying and maintaining in-house infrastructure, but managing the workloads running on top is an entirely different story. The difficulty of handling the growing amounts of information that are being moved outside the firewall returned to the agenda last week after Red Hat Inc. ...
KPCB-backed Trusona exits stealth to disrupt user authentication
Venture-backed security startups are a dime a dozen nowadays, but Trusona Inc. stands out. For starters, one of its advisers is credited as the inspiration behind a blockbuster Leonardo DiCaprio film. And more notably, it’s developed a new kind of authentication service that promises to nullify the threat from the so-called session replay attacks that ...
Pivotal picks up Singaporean web development shop Neo Innovation
If three do indeed make a trend as the old journalistic saying goes, then Pivotal Software Inc. is now officially on an acquisition streak. The vendor this week made its third strategic purchase in two months and picked up a Singaporean web development studio called Neo Innovation Inc. that caters to large enterprises. Adobe Systems ...
NetApp to axe 1,500 workers in cost-cutting push
The global economic turmoil is starting to take its toll on the rank and file of the enterprise storage industry. NetApp Inc., the second largest array maker by revenue, this week launched a drastic cost-cutting effort to mitigate the slowing international demand for its hardware that will see nearly 1,500 staffers laid off over the ...
IBM shells out $2.6BN for healthcare analytics giant Truven
Medical information from some 215 million people is set to be absorbed into IBM Corp.’s public cloud later this year as part of its newly announced acquisition of Truven Healthcare Analytics Inc. for $2.6 billion. The records will be accompanied by the Michigan-based vendor’s more than 5,000 employees, which include hundreds of data scientists, clinicians, ...
Siemplify exits stealth with a graphical console for tracking down cyberthreats
With millions of cyberattacks being launched against the private sector every day, enterprises can no longer afford to wait weeks for their security teams to manually track down every breach. The latest startup to take a shot at speeding detection times is Siemplify Ltd., which came out of stealth mode today with a threat analysis ...
GridGain gets $15M for its in-memory data fabric
The venture capital community is starting to take note of the growing demand for in-memory analytics. A group of international investors led by Russian financial services giant Sberbank this morning bought a $15 million stake in a vendor called GridGain Systems Inc. that they seem to perceive as their best chance at monetizing the trend. ...
SAP gobbles up mobile data visualizer Roambi
Mobile devices are the new front in the battle for the $16 billion business intelligence market. SAP SE entrenched its position this week with the acquisition of MeLLmo Inc., the company behind the hugely-successful Roambi line of data visualization tools. The California-based outfit has come a long way since releasing the first version of its ...