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IBM introduces a cloud-based blockchain environment for regulated industries
Theoretically, storing information in a distributed blockchain is far safer than using a traditional central database that stands as a single point of failure. But in practice, the technology is still vulnerable to a myriad of security threats that need to be addressed before its potential can be realized. IBM Corp. set out to make ...
Oracle shells out $663M for Textura to get into the construction business
Even though Oracle Corp. has spent the last couple of years aggressively expanding its lineup of industry-specific software, its latest investment in the effort still comes as a surprise. The company today announced that it’s paying a massive $663 million to acquire a cloud provider called Textura Corp. that sells business automation services for the ...
IBM introduces new flash arrays for the web-scale crowd
Though technology-savvy organizations like cloud providers are increasingly relying on commodity hardware in their data centers, IBM Corp. is betting that there is still room for its proprietary flash arrays. The vendor this morning made two new additions to the lineup that incorporate homegrown automation software specifically designed to address the advanced operational requirements of the ...
Seclore bags $12M from investors to protect enterprise data from theft
Even though top cloud vendors such as Salesforce.com Inc. and Box Inc. provide a great deal of security functionality with their services, protecting data that resides beyond the corporate firewall remains an immensely difficult task. The challenge therefor represents a significant revenue opportunity for file management startups like Seclore Technology Pvt Ltd., which raised $12 ...
Dropbox’s new “Project Infinite” will make accessing large folders less of a hassle
Accessing files kept in Dropbox isn’t nearly as straightforward as it may seem at first. Opening a document through the service’s web-based interface is easy enough, but doing the same using one of its desktop clients requires a bulk download involving all the other content in the target folder as well. Fortunately, however, the collaboration ...
Ryft says its new fuzzy search engine is 600x faster than traditional alternatives
Even though organizations are replacing more and more of their proprietary infrastructure with commodity gear, not every workload is better served by x86-based servers. According to the Maryland-based Ryft Systems Inc., data search is one such use case. The vendor claims that its namesake appliance can help improve query performance by up to 600 times ...
SDN startup Aviatrix moves to make hybrid cloud networks more secure
One of the first priorities in a hybrid cloud project is ensuring that the traffic flowing between the on- and off-premise components is handled securely, which can take a significant amount of time to achieve. And the more infrastructure is involved, the harder the task becomes. Aviatrix Systems Inc. wants to make things easier for ...
Neo4j 3.0 promises to supercharge large-scale graph analytics
In response to the growing enterprise adoption of graph stores, Neo Technology Inc. is updating its namesake database today to better meet the requirements of large organizations. Neo4j 3.0 moves beyond the scalability limits of the previous release to allow for upwards of hundreds of billions of records to be kept in a deployment along ...
Helium raises $20M for its cloud-controlled industrial sensors
For all the interest around the new types of data generated by the connected universe and their potential applications in the enterprise, relatively little attention is being paid to the sensors that collect the information. Yet there’s a major revenue opportunity in the technology that a startup called Helium Inc. hopes to seize with the ...
What you missed in Big Data: The Internet of Things rises
Last week saw the connected universe return to the analytics world’s agenda after Teradata Corp. formed a new business unit dedicated to helping organizations take better advantage of their sensory data. The group will focus on complex use cases like predicting industrial equipment failures that the average enterprise can’t implement on its own, or at least ...