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Meet Google’s new secret weapon against Microsoft Office
Even with a recent study finding that Office 365 has become the single most widely-used cloud service in the enterprise, many organizations still rely on the traditional desk version of Microsoft Corp.’s productivity bundle for day-to-day work. That segment represents a massive untapped market that Google Inc. now hopes to snatch from under its rival’s ...
Illusive Networks raises another $22 million for its souped-up security honeypot
With the spike in data breaches over recent years showing that it’s becoming increasingly difficult for organizations to keep intruders out of their systems, Illusive Networks Ltd. is proposing a new approach to fending off cyberattacks that may just help curve the trend: Combating hackers once they’re already behind the corporate firewall. That unique value proposition has earned the Tel ...
ZeroStack raises $16 million for its converged OpenStack appliance
Venture capital keeps pouring into the OpenStack ecosystem. Only two months after Mirantis Inc. raised a formidable $100 million in funding for its commercial distribution of the cloud management framework, ZeroStack Inc. is announcing the completion of a $16 million investment that will help promote its own rivaling flavor. The ZeroStack Cloud Platform is a ...
AllSeen Alliance releases major security update for IoT standard
The advantages of extending the web beyond traditional end-points into everyday life can only be attained so long as hackers aren’t able to turn that expanded reach against the users whom it’s supposed to benefit, which is what the AllSeen alliance hopes to ensure with the latest changes to its connectivity framework. Reaching the necessary ...
What you missed in Big Data: BI rules the agenda
The analytics ecosystem returned to its roots last week with a raft of updates from the old guard of business intelligence. It was SAP SE that appropriately fired the opening shot by pulling back the curtains on a cloud-based data processing platform promising to augment its other services with deep operational insights. The built-in modelling capabilities enable users to perform the ...
What you missed in Cloud: Old rivalries flare up
Microsoft Corp. took over the cloud spotlight last week after the torrent of news from Amazon Inc.’s infrastructure-as-a-service event subsided at last with the addition of new security functionality to its rivaling platform that promises to help protect off-premise databases more effectively. The launch represents the latest shot in a long-running competition over key corporate records that ...
Red Hat acquires Puppet Labs rival for reported $100M to bolster its DevOps chops
Red Hat Inc. added another vital piece to its hybrid cloud puzzle this morning after announcing the acquisition of Ansible Inc., one of the biggest names in open-source infrastructure automation, for a reported $100 million. The hefty price tag reflects the immense strategic value of the technology exchanging hands. The two-year-old startup’s namesake configuration management ...
Walmart open-sources its internal PaaS to stick it to Amazon
The competition between the world’s two largest retailers leaked into the public cloud this week after the announcement that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is releasing the source code for the proprietary platform-as-a-service stack powering its e-commerce operations under a free license. The move should make quite a few providers stir in their seats, but it’s only ...
IBM rolls out free data models for Watson’s 500K-strong user base
After managing to attract some 500,000 users to the cloud-based incarnation of Watson within less than a year of hitting general availability by making its core capabilities available at no charge, IBM Corp. is now aiming for the one million mark with a new set of freemium data models to go along. The common theme ...
VMware buys Boxer to help drive its mobile security standard
The record-breaking $67 billion merger between its parent company and Dell Inc. is apparently not interrupting business as usual at VMware Inc., which kicked off the European installment of its annual customer summit this morning with the announcement of a new strategic acquisition. The target of the buy should provide attendees with plenty of material for ...