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More than a month ahead of VMware Inc.’s annual Las Vegas conference, the rumor mill is already starting to churn. An anonymous insider told CRN this week that the vendor plans to launch a high-performance computing (HPC) service for vCloud Air at …
Microsoft Azure now offers a visual dashboard for tracking your cloud expenses
Monitoring resource consumption in Azure is about to become much easier for customers. Microsoft Corp. today open-sourced a reporting system it calls the Usage and Billing Portal that provides the ability to visually track all of an organization’s cloud expenses, even if they’re …
AWS could be getting a native IDE in wake of Amazon’s Cloud9 acquisition
After seeing DigitalOcean Inc. become the industry’s second largest cloud provider on the back of its developer following, Amazon Inc. is moving to making its rivaling infrastructure-as-a-service platform more appealing to programmers. The company today acquired a San Francisco startup called Cloud9 …
Silicon Valley and Wall St. giants shower $9M on risk analytics startup CyberGRX
Less than 24 hours after network protection provider Bay Dynamics Inc. closed a $23 million funding round, the security space is marking yet another high-profile investment. Denver-based risk analytics startup CyberGRX Inc. today announced that it’s raised $9 million from a group …
Security analytics specialist Bay Dynamics raises $23M amid growing competition
Most of the funding that is flowing into the security market nowadays goes to early stage startups, but the investment community is also willing to bet on more established players when an opportunity presents itself. The latest example is Bay Dynamics Inc., …
Plexxi’s upgraded networking stack makes SDN more accessible for enterprises
The software-defined networking crowd is working hard to broaden the appeal of its value proposition in a bid to increase demand among enterprises. One of the vendors leading the effort is Plexxi Inc., which today announced a major update for its switching …
DigitalOcean launches a fast SSD-based block storage service
It looks like DigitalOcean Inc. has been putting the $130 million line of credit that it took out five months ago to good use. Following numerous user requests, the provider is adding a block storage service to its public cloud today that …
Indegy raises $12M to secure the world’s industrial infrastructure
Industrial control systems can be found at almost every organization that operates heavy machinery, from the energy companies drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico to the world’s leading electronics makers. As a result, they’re a natural target for hackers. This …
Microsoft has a bold new plan for driving Windows 10 and Surface adoption in the enterprise
Hot on the heels of announcing a joint connected device push with General Electric Co., Microsoft Corp. has unleashed another round of updates at its partner conference in Toronto today. The main highlight is a pricing shakeup that is poised to make …
Chef’s new flagship DevOps platform aims to automate the entire application lifecycle
After a fairly uneventful first day at Chef Software Inc.’s user conference in Austin this week, the show is kicking into high gear. The company announced a new flagship offering called Chef Automate this morning that combines all of its standalone application …