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In the wake of the record-breaking botnet attack that hit one of its highest profile users last month, it’s no surprise that Akamai Technology Inc. is doubling down on security. The content delivery giant this morning picked up a Sunnyvale, CA-based startup called …
IBM will spend $200 million to kit out its Watson IoT HQ
Just 10 months after inaugurating the global headquarters of its Watson IoT business in Munich, IBM Corp. is already expanding the office’s scope of operations. The company today announced that it will invest $200 million to set up new cutting-edge labs in …
Restless Bandit snags $8M to help companies find hidden gems in rejected resumes
Like all other types of data in the enterprise, resumes have a tendency to pile up. A job posting can easily attract hundreds of applications nowadays that often filed away for later in case they’re rejected. But HR departments rarely make effective …
IBM, Carbon Black team up to patch corporate security holes
Just because an organization finds a vulnerability in its infrastructure doesn’t necessarily mean that the problem will be fixed. NASA, for instance, has more than 378,000 unpatched exploits across its employee endpoints as of August. IBM Corp. and Carbon Black Inc. today …
AMD challenges Intel with Bristol Ridge Pro chips for business PCs
Even if workers are increasingly relying on their mobile devices to be productive, there’s still plenty demand for business PCs that can handle more advanced tasks — most powered by Intel Corp. chips. Now, the chip giant can expect serious competition. Advanced …
Hot on Amazon’s heels, Microsoft announces new data centers in France
Microsoft Corp. Satya Nadella (above) today revealed the next step of his company’s plan to expand its cloud computing ambitions, this time in Europe. At a press event in Dublin today, the software giant said it intends to open a set of cloud data …
What you missed in Big Data: Hadoop and more AI
Organizations are moving more and more of their analytics workloads to the cloud in a bid to reduce operating expenses. One of the vendors trying to capitalize on the trend is Microsoft Corp., which last week rolled out a set of major …
What you missed in Cloud: Google, Amazon chart global expansion
After years of trailing Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. in the cloud market, Google believes that it’s time for a change of strategy. The search giant last week launched an ambitious reorganization effort that is set to see its infrastructure- and software-as-a-service …
Demandbase launches AI-powered tool to help marketers find new leads
Salesforce.com Inc. isn’t the only cloud vendor that is infusing artificial intelligence functionality into its offerings. Today, Demandbase Inc. is following the software-as-a-service giant’s lead and launching a new business graph for its business-to-business marketing platform that uses machine learning algorithms to …
What you need to know about Nutanix’s blockbuster IPO
Technology firms that have been holding off their initial public offerings of stock for fear of lackluster investor interest may be rethinking those plans today. The latest tech company to go public, the cloud computing company Nutanix Inc., saw its shares jump …