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Insiders: EMC scraps plans for joint cloud venture with VMware
The first casualty of EMC Corp.’s $67 billion acquisition by Dell Inc. appears to be its public cloud strategy, which was until recently set to see the disparate infrastructure-as-a-service offerings scattered throughout its federation combined into a new joint venture with VMware Inc. early next year. Insiders leaked word yesterday that the plan has been ...
Fortscale raises $4 million to help enterprises defend against insider threats
As sophisticated as hackers have become in recent years, traditional external attacks against the corporate network are still overshadowed by the threat from malicious insiders, who account for a massive 43 percent of data breaches in the enterprise according to an Intel Corp. study released last quarter. The latest startup to take a shot at ...
Superfish 2.0: Bogus certificate found lurking in Dell machines
Dell Inc. customers should think twice about using the preinstalled software on their computers from now on. The diagnostics toolkit that the consumer electronics giant ships with its most popular Windows machines to help troubleshoot problems has been found to use an unsafe root certificate that poses a major security threat on the same scale as the Superfish ...
Apache Brooklyn graduates from incubation to take on Google’s Kubernetes
The Apache Software Foundation swelled its ranks this morning with the addition of the open-source Brooklyn orchestration framework, which has officially become a top-level project after 18 months in incubation. The graduation is the culmination of a much longer journey that started in 2011 at a little-known U.K.-based automation provider called Cloudsoft Corporation Ltd. that sought a way ...
Cisco shells out $700 million for teleconferencing interoperability provider Acano
The booming London startup scene is marking another high-value exist with Cisco Systems Inc.’s acquisition of local enterprise communications specialist Acano Ltd. for a massive $700 million in cash and stock. The deal will help the networking giant make its teleconferencing solutions more attractive for its largest customers, which often struggle to take full advantage ...
Intel and friends assimilate smart home group in bid for IoT dominance
The Intel Corp.-backed Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC) is expanding its presence in the smart home with the acquisition of a fellow standards association called the UPnP Forum, which was founded in 1999 to maintain the Universal Plug and Play family of peer-to-peer connectivity protocols. The merger represents the opening shot in the inevitable round of ...
What you missed in Big Data: Smart connectivity
The difficulty of processing unstructured data is most often brought up in the context of the business analysts charged with extracting the insights inside, but it’s an equally big challenge for the developers who produce the software supporting that work. Last week saw Microsoft Corp. come to the rescue with a new service that makes ...
What you missed in Cloud: Integration returns to the spotlight
The public cloud experienced yet another round of consolidation last week after Canadian hosting bigwig CentriLogic, Inc.. acquired a fellow Toronto-based provider called Advanced Knowledge Networks Inc. to grow its local footprint. One of the main factors behind the deal is the growing competitive pressure from the likes of Amazon Inc., which is likewise expanding worldwide ...
IBM reimagines single sign-on for the era of mass data breaches
The newest addition to IBM Corp.’s Bluemix cloud development toolkit is an integration service aimed at reducing the amount of work involved in making applications compatible with Identity Mixer, a homegrown login system that was released under an open-source license earlier this year. The project is touted as a way for organizations to mitigate the ...
Log cruncher Splunk sees revenue surge to $174.4 million in the third quarter
The continued rise in machine-generated data is putting a lot of wind behind the sails of Splunk Inc., which saw revenue jump a staggering 50 percent last quarter to $174.4 million on the back of more than 500 new customer wins across dozens of industries. The earnings handily beat both the company’s own internal guidance ...