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Kafka gets a stream processing engine to compete with Spark and Samza
Apache Kafka was originally developed to complement stream processing engines such as Samza and Spark, but it may soon end up displacing them in many organizations if Confluent Inc. has its way. The startup, which was founded in 2014 by the original creators of the message broker, today released a real-time analytics module for the project ...
vArmour raises $41M to cut off malware propagation paths in the enterprise
The continuing rise in corporate data breaches is leading companies to expand their security efforts beyond preempting attacks to ensuring they’re prepared for the possibility of a successful hack. As a result, money once spent on traditional network protection software is now going to startups like vArmour Inc., which just raised $41 million in new ...
JFrog’s new Xray service can see through every layer of your Docker images
One of the main advantages that containers possess over traditional virtualization software is that they’re simpler in design and provide more operational flexibility as a result. But the same can’t necessarily be said for the workload running inside a Docker instance, which is usually some mix of application components, automation processes and various other scaffolding. ...
What you missed in Big Data: Fighting fraud with AI
The investment floodgates opened for the analytics world last week and unleashed a torrent of funding announcements bigger than anything the industry has seen in quite some time. One of the first startups in line was France’s Shift Technology, which closed a $10 million round led by Accel to finance the development of new features ...
What you missed in Cloud: Branching out
Last week saw some of the more traditional players in the public cloud move outside their comfort zone to explore new ways of gaining market share. SAP SA led the charge with the introduction of an enterprise-oriented advertising network that runs on its in-memory HANA database. The service makes it possible to purchase media space ...
Dell unifies array families with new ultra-efficient storage OS
After three years of development, the latest round-number version of Dell Inc.’s storage stack is finally about to hit the market. The arguably biggest selling point of SCOS 7 is a new federated migration feature that promises to facilitate interoperability between the firm’s so-far disjointed EqualLogic and Compellent array families. Organizations running systems from both ...
SAP takes on Google with new Hana-powered ad network
Like rival Oracle Corp., SAP SE is aggressively expanding its marketing automation portfolio in a bid to capture a bigger slice of CMOs’ technology budgets. This week saw the initiative move beyond software after the company introduced a pair of new cloud services that provide access to consumer buying data and, more curiously, advertising space. ...
SAP wants to sell companies data about their customers
In addition to selling companies software for analyzing their marketing data, SAP SA will now also provide the information itself through a new cloud offering that was revealed at its annual user conference today. Digital Consumer Insight is not a software-as-a-service solution in the traditional sense, however: It’s integrated into the vendor’s web store and ...
Alphabet has developed a custom chip for running machine learning algorithms
Amazon Inc. is apparently not the only web giant that designs its own processors. At its annual developer summit this week, Alphabet Inc. revealed the existence of a homegrown server chip that can supposedly run machine learning algorithms ten times faster than publicly-available alternatives. This performance advantage is the result of a secretive development effort ...
IBM Cloud adds Nvidia Tesla M60s to speed up VDI workloads
While it still has a long way to go before catching up with AWS and Azure on adoption, IBM Corp. is already pulling ahead it comes to the breadth of hardware options available in its public cloud. The technology giant this morning announced that it’s become the first major provider to add support for Nvidia Corp.’s ...