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Google ups the ante in the machine learning wars
Google Inc. is shaking up the open-source ecosystem. In November, the search giant released the code for an internally-developed machine learning engine that prompted nearly half a dozen other web giants to share their own model-building tools. And now it’s taking the fight deeper into the development life cycle with the launch of a complementary framework ...
Illumio aims its self-adapting security platform at malicious insiders
With over 40 percent of enterprise data leaks now estimated to originate from within the corporate network, security vendors are starting to pay more attention to the threat of malicious insiders. The latest player to jump aboard the bandwagon is the Accel Partners-backed Illumio Inc., which today introduced new user authorization functionality for its cloud-based ...
Exabeam wants to disrupt the Netflixization of cybersecurity with new tool
Sometimes, the best solution to a problem is also the most straightforward. Threat detection startup Exabeam Inc. today unveiled a new security forensics tool that attempts to address what CEO Nir Polak perceives as a gap in operational visibility caused by the increasing sophistication of network protection software. The issue is especially pronounced in the ...
Zoomdata raises $25 million for its real-time data visualization tool
Business intelligence vendors are embracing high-performance execution frameworks like Apache Spark en masse in a bid to address the growing demand for real-time analytics. But the data visualization subsegment is still largely stuck in the batch processing era, which is creating a rift that Zoomdata Inc. hopes to bridge with the help of the $25 ...
IBM contributes 44K lines of code to open-source blockchain project
IBM Corp. is hitting the ground running in the nascent blockchain market. Barely two months after announcing plans to develop an open-source implementation of the technology for the financial services sector, the vendor is releasing nearly 44,000 lines of code that will form the core of the project. The framework, dubbed Hyperledger, has been designed with ...
Nutanix supercharges its hyperconverged stack with “one-click automation”
Less than a week after VMware Inc. introduced a new iteration of its management platform for hyperconverged appliances, Nutanix Inc. is firing back with the announcement of an equally major software update that ups the ante on automation. The biggest changes are coming to its homegrown hypervisor included in its rivaling gear, which aims to win ...
Uila launches Hadoop-powered monitoring platform for VMware shops
There is no shortage of vendors promising to centralize the work of IT professionals in a “single pane of glass”, but reality rarely lives up to the hype, especially when it comes to data center monitoring software. Organizations have to use a multitude of different tools in order to keep track of their virtualized infrastructure ...
Wavefront exits stealth to put data science in the hands of IT pros
While the industry spotlight was fixed on the success of early cloud-based monitoring providers such as New Relic Inc. and DataDog Inc., an emerging contender called Wavefront Inc. has been quietly building up a formidable customer base in the background. The startup exited stealth mode today with more than $20 million in financing from Sequoia ...
What you missed in Big Data: Empowering analysts
It seems that barely a few days can go by nowadays without some vendor launching a new tool to simplify data processing. Last week, that vendor was Talend Inc., which introduced a freemium desktop application for molding spreadsheets into a form that can be ingested by modern business intelligence software. Its main selling point is ...
What you missed in Cloud: The one-upmanship continues
Since the cost of hardware is declining at more or less the same rate across the entire industry, the top cloud providers increasingly have to look beyond price-cutting in order to set themselves apart. The trend saw Amazon Inc. venture into the gaming world last week with the launch of a new homegrown development engine designed to ...