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Here’s how Dell plans to pay back its debt from the EMC merger
Dell Inc. is having an almost suspiciously hard time keeping the lid on its plans to sell the market on its record-breaking acquisition of EMC Corp for $67 billion. Unnamed insiders leaked this week that the company is negotiating with a group of big-name private equity firms to offload several of its secondary businesses in ...
CoreOS introduces full-stack security for rkt containers
Security is the new competitive battleground for containers Merely two weeks after Docker Inc. released a set of access control features to help prevent intrusions into production deployments of its namesake platform, CoreOS Inc. is upping the ante with a competing cryptographic framework that provides protection against tampering all the way down to the firmware. ...
Dynamics CRM 2016 launches with Cortana-powered analytics
Bob Stutz, the former Microsoft Corp. vice president who led the development of Dynamics CRM 2016, wasn’t around to announce the news of its launch this week following his recent defection to Salesforce.com Inc. Fortunately, newly prompted right-hand man Jujhar Singh had no trouble stepping up to the plate. The latest iteration of Redmond’s customer relationship ...
Hewlett Packard Enterprise brings the cloud DevOps experience on-premise
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise apparently didn’t need much time to get used to operating as an independent company. Merely a month after separating from its former consumer electronics arm, the data center equipment giant is unveiling a new kind of converged system that promises to change the way applications are run behind the firewall. It’s the culmination ...
What you missed in Big Data: Scaling analytics
The analytics ecosystem grew a little bigger last week with the launch of a new open-source project from IBM Corp. that aims to help simplify the development of machine learning models for data crunching applications. The aptly-named SystemML framework is a product of the company’s work on Watson that abstracts away many of the complicated ...
What you missed in Cloud: A blast from the past
The public cloud returned to its roots last week after Amazon Inc. rolled out a dedicated hosting option that allows users to rent out entire servers in its data centers for the first time. The service is offered as an alternative to regular virtual instances for organizations that wish to make use of software licenses ...
After pulling the plug on its public cloud, HPE turns to former rivals
Much like counterpart Satya Nadella at Microsoft Corp., Meg Whitman isn’t letting old rivalries stand in the way of her growth plans. Just over a month after announcing plans to shut down Hewlett-Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) struggling public cloud, the chief executive has revealed a partnership with Redmond to fill the gap with its once competing ...
Insiders: EMC scraps plans for joint cloud venture with VMware
The first casualty of EMC Corp.’s $67 billion acquisition by Dell Inc. appears to be its public cloud strategy, which was until recently set to see the disparate infrastructure-as-a-service offerings scattered throughout its federation combined into a new joint venture with VMware Inc. early next year. Insiders leaked word yesterday that the plan has been ...
Fortscale raises $4 million to help enterprises defend against insider threats
As sophisticated as hackers have become in recent years, traditional external attacks against the corporate network are still overshadowed by the threat from malicious insiders, who account for a massive 43 percent of data breaches in the enterprise according to an Intel Corp. study released last quarter. The latest startup to take a shot at ...
Superfish 2.0: Bogus certificate found lurking in Dell machines
Dell Inc. customers should think twice about using the preinstalled software on their computers from now on. The diagnostics toolkit that the consumer electronics giant ships with its most popular Windows machines to help troubleshoot problems has been found to use an unsafe root certificate that poses a major security threat on the same scale as the Superfish ...