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Israeli startup promises unbreakable encryption for the Internet of Things
Even the most advanced cryptography can theoretically be cracked with enough time and processing power, but that’s the least of an organization’s network protection worries. A much more tangible concern is the fact that conventional security protocols suffer from certain design flaws that hackers are potentially able to exploit in order to simply bypass their encryption, ...
Amazon is setting up shop in a classified U.S. intel facility
It appears that the CIA isn’t the only member of the U.S. intelligence community to have taken an interest in Amazon Web Services (AWS). Two years after landing a massive $600 million contract from the spy agency to take over its infrastructure operations, Jeff Bezos’s firm has received an equally unprecedented tax break to set up shop on ...
Docker launches a unified DevOps service for container clusters
Docker Inc. hopes to bridge the gap between the developers and operations professionals using its namesake container engine with a new paid service that offers to centralize application management in a unified interface. It’s meant to fill a role analogous to VMware Inc.’s vSphere in traditional virtual infrastructure but bears a much closer resemblance to ...
EMC doubles down on the public cloud in data protection push
While VMware Inc. is reportedly scaling back the development of new features for its infrastructure-as-a-service platform, parent company EMC Corp. is doing the exact opposite and expanding its footprint in the public cloud with a major update to its data protection portfolio. The main highlight is a new iteration of the FAST.X tiering service that enables administrators to move information off-premise ...
What do Salesforce.com and DARPA have in common? A little startup called Cogito
Salesforce.com Inc. has joined the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on Cogito Corp.’s exclusive list of backers through a newly announced financing round that saw its prolific private equity arm combine forces with Romulus Capital to buy a $5.5 million equity stake. The funds from the investment will enable the startup to ramp up marketing ...
Investors shower $20 million on ProtectWise’s cloud-based network security service
A mere seven months after announcing its first round, ProtectWise Inc. has received another $20 million from Tola Capital LLC and all four of its existing backers in a follow-up investment that tops off a historic financing streak for the enterprise security space. The new funds will help maintain its head start over all the ...
HPE embraces Docker
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is following up the biggest update to its 3PAR portfolio since becoming an independent company with the introduction of Docker support in its flagship StoreServ arrays and the StoreVirtual management software for server-attached drives. The integration will enable customers to relegate important data from their deployments to its equipment for permanent storage using ...
Docker gets a lot more secure with user namespaces and new image controls
Hackers will soon have a much harder time breaking into container clusters thanks to new security functionality Docker Inc. is introducing at its second annual European user conference this morning that promises to block off two key threat vectors. The first is its official third party software catalog, which curates operating system images, databases, and other ...
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise jumps aboard the 3D NAND bandwagon with 3PAR upgrade
In the first major update to its flagship 3PAR storage array lineup since becoming an independent company two weeks ago, Hewlett Packard Enterprise is rolling out new solid-state memory drives based on the latest 3D NAND specification that can be retrofitted into existing deployments. The launch comes less than six months after Dell Inc. revealed ...
What you missed in Big Data: It’s all about access
In the era of real-time analytics, organizations not only require an economic way of storing the vast amounts of information generated by their daily operations but also the ability to quickly access that data whenever the need arises. The latter requirement has proven the more difficult of the two to meet due to the complex ...