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RSA combines its access management products into a single toolkit
Balancing security and usability is a challenge that the IT industry has been grappling with for decades. The latest attempt to ease the task comes from RSA Security LLC, which is rolling out a new access management toolkit today that promises to help organizations fine-tune how they regulate user activity. The main component of the ...
Snowflake supercharges its cloud-based data warehouse
Though only a fraction of traditional enterprises have moved their business intelligence operations outside the firewall to date, the cloud-based data warehouse market is already fiercely competitive. One of the main contenders is a startup called Snowflake Computing Inc. that is moving to cement its position this morning by rolling out a set of automation ...
Microsoft Stream is a YouTube-like service for sharing videos in the workplace
Vendors are getting serious about addressing organizations’ internal video content. Last month, Workday Inc. acquired a video course startup called Zaption Inc. to bolster its corporate training business, and now Microsoft Corp. is joining the fray too with a new YouTube-like service called Stream. ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley reports that the offering is meant to succeed the ...
Brocade’s beefy new FC director can provide up to 16 TBps of bandwidth
Storage-attached network vendors are beefing up their products to address the rapid increase in data center I/O traffic that the widening adoption of flash arrays is driving. Leading the effort is Brocade Technologies Inc., which today introduced a new director-class switch series that is hailed as the first in the industry to implement the Gen 6 Fibre Channel (FC) protocol. ...
Deception-based security gains steam as GuardiCore raises $20M
Organizations have historically dealt with breach attempts by trying to block the hacker as fast as possible and only stopping to investigate after the fact. But now, the security community is starting to adopt a new approach: Letting attacks play out in controlled conditions to gain a deeper understanding of the threat. The method is ...
Carbon Black buys endpoint protection startup Confer to bolster its security cloud
Weeks after two of the world’s biggest antivirus providers announced plans to merge in a $1.3 billion deal, the endpoint protection market is undergoing another round of consolidation. Carbon Black Inc. announced this morning that it’s acquired a competitor called Confer Technologies Inc. that has developed a system for protecting employee devices. The platform provides threat ...
Skycure raises $16.5M for its mobile threat sensor
Though regulating access to company data and fending off malware are two sides of the same coin when it comes to mobile security, organizations have historically had to handle the tasks separately. This decentralized approach is becoming less and less effective as hackers step up their efforts to target employee-owned devices. Fortunately, Palo Alto’s Skycure ...
Opera reworks its $1.2BN sale to Chinese group in bid to bypass regulatory hurdles
Shareholders of Opera Software ASA won’t be receiving the big payout that they were promised when it accepted a $1.2 billion buyout offer from a Chinese consortium in February. The browser maker announced today that the deal fell through after failing to receive regulatory approval in the pre-allotted time frame. Fortunately, management has come up ...
What you missed in Big Data: Machine learning gains yet more momentum
Companies large and small are embracing machine learning in a bid to make better use of their data. Last week, eBay Inc. led the charge by acquiring SalesPredict Ltd., an Israeli startup that uses the technology help marketers gain a better understanding of their customers. Its cloud service can analyze a company’s sales records to ...
What you missed in Cloud: New features and acquisitions
Last week saw the competition in the public cloud reach another new height after Baidu Inc. rolled out three separate sets of developer tools for its infrastructure-as-a-service platform. The additions target the media processing, analytics and connected device management use cases that better-established rivals like Amazon Inc. have been focusing on lately. The update puts ...