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Google, Microsoft and other tech giants team up to fix email security
The proportion of inbound messages that arrive in Gmail properly encrypted has jumped from 50 percent to nearly 70 percent over the past two years, a figure that Google Inc. expects will continue to increase as providers around the world strengthen their security capabilities. But the remaining emails that are still being sent in a plain-text ...
What you missed in Big Data: Mapping out the customer journey
Customer engagement emerged as the dominant theme in the analytics discussion last week after Google Inc. unveiled a new business intelligence suite designed to help organizations gain a better understanding of their customers. The main highlight of the bundle is a dashboarding tool that makes it possible to visualize the massive amounts of demographics and ...
What you missed in Cloud: Automation through collaboration
Last week saw the spirit of collaboration envelope the cloud ecosystem as several of the biggest names in the business partnered up to help their users become more productive. Box Inc. and Okta Inc. led the charge by expanding the integration between their respective platforms to help ease the task of protecting corporate data from theft. ...
Kubernetes 1.2 makes large-scale Docker clusters 400 percent more scalable
Operating large-scale container clusters is set to become much more straightforward thanks to the new version of Google Inc.’s Kubernetes orchestration framework that hit the pages of GitHub this week. The release quadruples the maximum number of nodes in an implementation to 30,000 and brings a host of new automation capabilities designed to reduce the amount ...
Syncsort lets companies keep a closer eye on their mainframes with new Ironstream release
While much of the software used in the enterprise today is supplied by outside vendors, older applications left over from the mainframe era often contain homegrown code that can be challenging to maintain. It’s even more difficult to add new capabilities like integration with a third party service, which complicates operations a great deal. Syncsort ...
Toshiba to spend $3.2BN on cutting-edge new 3D flash plant
The world’s supply of 3D NAND memory will increase significantly in the coming years if Toshiba Corp. succeeds with its latest venture. The Japanese technology giant is preparing to start construction on a cutting-edge new semiconductor plant in its home country that will mass-produce chips based on the ultra-dense flash variant. Toshiba expects to spend ...
Box teams with Okta to make accessing files from mobile devices safer
With cyberattacks against the enterprise continuing to increase both in sophistication and frequency, traditional authorization functionality is no longer sufficient to protect employee-owned devices. Box Inc. is expanding its partnership with Okta Inc. this morning to help organizations that rely on its collaboration platform bolster their defenses and regulate mobile access to internal data more ...
Striim nabs $10M to enable real-time analytics without complex infrastructure
The venture capital community appears to have developed quite an interest in stream processing startups as of late. Just days after Israel’s Alooma Ltd. secured financing to help organizations pipe new data into their business intelligence environments in real-time, Striim Inc. has announced the completion of a $10 million investment that will go towards widening the ...
EMC scores partial victory against Pure Storage in patent dispute
One of the most closely-watched legal battles in the enterprise storage market appears to have come to a tentative end this week after a jury ruled that Pure Storage Inc. must pay EMC Corp. $14 million for violating its intellectual property. The WSJ reports that the technology at stake was a piece of deduplicated software ...
Salesforce.com moves into the multi-billion dollar field service space
For the third time since the begining of the month, Salesforce.com Inc. is rolling out new functionality for its customer management platform. Today’s update brings an entire standalone service designed to help the technicians and other specialists who work with an organization’s clientele out in the trenches to become more productive. The cloud giant first ...