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15 million consumers compromised in Experian breach
The financial service industry has become the latest victim of this year’s surge in attacks against corporate targets after Experian plc saw hackers steal personal information belonging to 15 million Americans from its network last month. The plunder includes names, addresses, dates of birth and Social Security numbers along with detailed financial activity records. The massive ...
IBM brings its analytics smarts to Box
Barely four months after teaming up to help organizations make more out of the growing amounts of information they store in the public cloud, IBM Corp. and Box Inc. are releasing a new set of analytics capabilities to augment the latter’s online file locker. The launch is the latest milestone in an aggressive data management ...
Syncsort hooks up its data integration service to Kafka and Spark
Syncsort Inc. hopes to bring the entry barrier to performing real-time analytics down a notch with a new iteration of its flagship data integration software that can hook up to an organization’s stream processing pipelines to simplify the handling of the information flowing inside. Facilitating that is newly added integration with Apache Kafka. The open-source ...
Teridion exists stealth to make a x20 faster Internet
While organizations keep laying down bigger and bigger network cables to support their growing bandwidth requirements, a startup called Teridion Technologies Ltd. has found a way to make connections up to 20 times faster without so much as replacing a router. And it’s existing stealth with $20 million in funding this morning to bring the ...
EMC buys stealthy flash competitor amid intensifying diversification efforts
Word broke this week that EMC Corp. has quietly bolstered its efforts to move beyond traditional disk arrays with the acquisition of a stealthy startup called Graphite Systems Inc. that is developing a high-performance entrant into the flash storage race. The transaction is the latest indicator of the growing urgency surrounding the diversification initiative. Stagnating ...
Peaxy raises $15 million to disrupt the data lake
Replacing departmentalized information silos with a centralized data lake is a great way to make a large organization’s records accessible to its users in theory, but tends to prove near impossible to implement in practice. That gap between need and availability is what Peaxy Inc. hopes to fill with the help of the $15 million ...
Talend switches its data integration platform to Apache Spark
The latest data integration provider to jump on the Apache Spark bandwagon is Talend Inc., which is rolling out a new version of its namesake platform this morning that leverages the speedy in-memory execution framework to accelerate data ingestion. It’s claiming that customers can achieve an immediate fivefold performance improvement by switching over. The company promises to ...
Microsoft launches a Mesos-powered container service
Better late than never. Eleven months after Amazon and five behind Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. is finally rolling out its own managed container platform to help developers run their microservices projects in the public cloud. The delay is the result of a strategic gamble that may just help set its value proposition apart from the ...
Juniper debuts cloud-based security service to shield the corporate network
Everybody is getting aboard the cloud bandwagon, even vendors that sell equipment for private data centers. The latest example is Juniper Networks Inc., which is rolling out a new managed security service this morning that promises to help customers prevent advanced malware from infiltrating their systems. The aptly-named Sky Advanced Threat Prevention engine quarantines downloads in ...
BlueTalon builds data security directly into Hadoop
The sheer amount of data stored in Hadoop clusters makes them a natural target for hackers, but organizations don’t have too many good options to achieve the level of security needed to rise up to the threat. BlueTalon Inc. hopes to change that with a new iteration of its policy enforcement engine that implements privacy ...