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Syncsort now lets enterprises monitor mainframes with Splunk
As with all other mission-critical infrastructure, mainframe computers require organizations to monitor continuously for issues that might hinder their ability to function. But the task is made difficult by the fact that there isn’t an effective native mechanism for streaming operational logs from big iron deployments to external monitoring tools. Syncsort Inc. is working to ...
Zenefits updates HR platform with payroll management, partner links
Barely a month after partner-turned-rival Gusto Inc. announced a major expansion to its payroll processing platform, Zenefits Inc. is releasing an update of its own that promises to up the ante in the automation department. What should draw the most attention from customers is the Z2 release’s set of 17 integrations that make it possible ...
VMware adds more support for containers in new software
VMware Inc. today unveiled new versions of its management software that embraces application containers, a concept allowing applications to run on any machine that was once seen as arch-competitors of its computer virtualization software. The virtualization giant has unveiled new versions of its core management solutions that add extensive support for Docker along with expanded automation ...
Oblong raises $65M to bring Minority Report technology into the office
There are countless collaboration startups out there that promise to help organizations improve internal team communications, but few take their efforts as far as Oblong Industries Inc. The Los Angeles-based firm, which is working to bring visual sharing technology once only imagined in science fiction to the modern office, today closed a $65 million funding ...
New Equinix deal shows VMware hasn’t given up on vCloud Air
A growing number of organizations are setting up private network links between their data centers and infrastructure-as-a-service deployments to improve response times. In an effort to address this trend, VMware Inc. has tapped Equinix Inc. to provide dedicated connections for its vCloud Air platform. The newly announced partnership gives users reason for optimism amid the ...
Report: Sometimes private clouds are cheaper than public clouds
One of the main reasons why organizations flock to public clouds such as Amazon Web Services is that their pay-as-you-go infrastructure services are seen as more economical than buying expensive on-premises gear. But according to a newly published report from 451 Research, this is not necessarily the case for every company. The paper is the latest ...
Cisco acquires Worklife to boost Spark team collaboration service
Cisco Systems Inc. is aggressively scaling its collaboration business in response to the widening enterprise adoption of tools like Slack. Today, the networking giant acquired a startup called Heroik Labs Inc. for its popular Worklife service, which is described as a sort of Swiss Army Knife for managing office meetings. The application promises to help streamline the organization ...
What you missed in Big Data: graph processing and machine learning
Most traditional data management products aren’t equipped to handle the increasingly complex and diverse information that is flowing into the corporate network these days. As a result, organizations are turning to new solutions like Neo4j. The widely used graph store, which sets itself apart by providing the ability to easily log the relationships among records, ...
What you missed in cloud: Old rivalries are cast aside
As organizations continue moving and more of their internal workloads to the cloud, it’s becoming increasingly important for traditional IT vendors to address the trend. Last week, VMware Inc. joined the bandwagon by announcing plans to make its virtualization offerings available on AWS. The product lineup includes the company’s flagship hypervisor, its VSAN network management ...
IBM, Google, others challenge Intel with data center performance standard
Three years after open-sourcing the specifications for its POWER chip architecture, IBM Corp. is releasing another homegrown server innovation that could make an even bigger impact on the data center market. OpenCAPI, or Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface by its original name, will become available through a dedicated foundation that was inaugurated today. It appears aimed at ...