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Plexxi wants to bring the network into sync with the rest of the data center
The centralized manner in which a software-defined network can be managed makes it much faster to perform configuration changes than traditional setups that require every affected piece of hardware to be updated individually. But the task often still necessitates a great deal of manual tinkering, which can lead to delays that have the potential to ...
IBM opens its first cloud data center in Africa
African organizations that rely on IBM Corp.’s infrastructure-as-a-service platform will no longer have to keep their applications in another continent from now on. The vendor is inaugurating a new data center in Johannesburg today that aims to address the growing infrastructure demands of the region’s budding private sector. The market for cloud services in South ...
Watch out, Slack! Cisco launches $150M fund to boost rivaling collab service
Cisco Systems Inc. may not be the first name that comes to mind when thinking of enterprise collaboration software, but it’s starting to make big waves in the segment. The technology giant this morning launched a $150 million program designed to encourage the development of third party functionality for its Spark communications platform. The move is ...
HPE intros dense new storage server for hyperscale giants
Like the traditional enterprise crowd, the world’s largest data center operators are consolidating the historically disparate components of their infrastructure in an effort to save space and simplify management. Hewlett Packard Enterprise is moving to capitalize on the trend this morning with the launch of a new hyperscale storage server that can pack as much ...
Report: IBM looking to offshore as much as 80 percent of services biz
The latest round of layoffs at IBM Corp.’s professional services business may be shaping up to be much smaller than it could have been, but the long-term outlook for employees is still bleak. The Register this morning leaked the contents of what is described as a confidential letter in which the company’s management discloses plans ...
Salesforce.com adds new security functionality to safeguard customer data
Achieving a balance between security and convenience in a mission-critical business application was difficult even before employees started using their mobile devices to take work outside the office. Salesforce.com Inc. wants to ease the task for the providers and large enterprises that run custom services on its CRM service with a new authorization mechanism that is rolling this morning ...
What you missed in Big Data: Ensuring transparency
For all the hype, even the most sophisticated machine learning algorithm still can’t fully match a human’s decision-making capability, a fact that is perhaps most evident in the world of online marketing. Promotions distributed through automated services like Google AdWords often end up on sites that don’t attract members of the target audience, an issue Pathmatics Inc. ...
What you missed in Cloud: It’s all about automation
Like the rest of the software industry, development automation providers have also been moving their offerings to the public cloud in recent years. Shippable Inc. hopes to set its service apart from the growing crowd with a set of new capabilities that rolled out last week to help streamline large application projects running outside the ...
10,000 IBMers reportedly set to lose their jobs as restructuring begins
The massive restructuring effort that IBM Corp. insiders warned about a few weeks now appears to be underway. Lee Conrad, the head of an independent union serving the company’s U.S. workforce, first sounded the alarms earlier this week after he started receiving emails from a large number of employees claiming to have been given their termination ...
Docker buys ex-Googlers’ startup to automate large-scale container clusters
Docker Inc. is moving towards closing the functionality gap between containers and traditional virtualization software one strategic acquisition at the time. The latest addition to its arsenal is Conductant Inc., a low-key startup that was founded by a group of Google Inc. and Twitter Inc. veterans to help organizations automate the management of their large-scale ...