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IBM ups the ante on cloud storage with new ultra-secure object service
The industry’s leading cloud providers are all investing heavily in security to make their platforms more appealing for risk-averse enterprises. Today, IBM Corp. is upping the ante by adding a new object storage option to its infrastructure-as-a-service portfolio that is specifically designed with data privacy in mind. Its most important component is the patented SecureSlice technology ...
MParticle raises $17.5 million to help brands process their mobile data
Mobile devices are an essential source of consumer behavior data for marketers, but the incredible volume and variety of the information generated by users can makes it difficult to process. Several analytics providers out there have taken it upon themselves to ease the task. One of the front-runners is a startup called mParticle Inc. that raised ...
Neo4j 3.1 promises to make large-scale graph processing easier and more secure
Graph databases are finding growing use in enterprise analytics projects thanks to their ability to efficiently keep track of the relationships among records. And no system in the category is more popular these days than Neo4j, which received a major update this morning that aims to expand its appeal even further. The arguably most important enhancement ...
Pure Storage upgrades flagship flash array to petabyte-scale
As the density of solid-state memory continues to increase thanks to innovations like 3D NAND, flash array vendors are able to squeeze more and more capacity into their systems. Today, it’s Pure Storage Inc. that is upping the ante by introducing a new petabyte-scale iteration of its flagship FlashArray//m series. At the center of the upgrade ...
Top tech firms team up to develop a new memory ‘fabric’
IBM Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. have few shared interests from a competitive standpoint, but they’ll both be affected by the radical changes in data storage technology that are expected to occur over the next few years. That’s why the companies banded up today along with 18 of the industry’s other biggest names to ...
Amid acquisition doubts, NetSuite presses on with product efforts
Product development efforts are continuing as normal at NetSuite Inc. despite its looming acquisition by Oracle Corp. and the shareholder efforts to block the deal. At least that’s the impression the cloud giant is attempting to put forward at its annual partner event today in London, where it’s showcasing a new iteration of its OpenAir resource ...
E8 Security bags $12 million to help find hidden threats using machine learning
Barely a week seems to go by nowadays without at least one startup raising funding to take on the industry’s established breach prevention providers. Today, the spotlight is on E8 Security Inc., an emerging threat analysis specalist that announced it has closed a $12 million round led by Strategic Cyber Ventures LLC. The Washington, D.C.-based ...
Webscale nabs $12M to tame traffic spikes with predictive analytics
Of the many challenges involved in operating a large-scale web service, dealing with sudden traffic surges is among the most difficult. One of the newest companies to focus on that challenge is a Mountain View-based startup called Webscale Networks Inc. that raised $12 million in funding this morning to fuel its work. The investment was led by ...
What you missed in Big Data: Watson meets the Internet of Things
Organizations are investing heavily in analytics to try to process the growing amount of machine-generated data that is coming off their connected devices. One of the vendors working to capitalize on the trend is IBM Corp., which last week announced that it will spend $200 million on expanding the Munich headquarters of its Watson IoT group ...
What you missed in Cloud: The competition is heating up
While it’s only one of several factors that companies consider when selecting a cloud platform, pricing often has an outsized role in the decision-making process. As a result, the industry’s top infrastructure as a service providers place a big emphasis on keeping their rates competitive. Microsoft Corp. put the topic back on the agenda last week ...