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Report: HP looking to sell off network security business ahead of split-up
Hewlett-Packard Co. has reportedly begun purging non-core assets ahead of its planned split-up later this year, with anonymous insiders claiming that the first casualty could be its little-known TippingPoint firewall business. The rumored divestment would mark the latest milestone in what has been a long and twisting journey for the division. The company of the ...
LinkedIn previews upcoming enhancements for Apache Kafka
The engineering team at LinkedIn Inc. hasn’t been sitting idly since contributing its homegrown message broker to the open-source community three years ago. The volume of data flowing through its network has since ballooned to over 1.34 petabytes per week, which required making some major modifications that are slated to become available in the next ...
Syncsort open-sources Spark connector for mainframes
The clash between old and new gripping the analytics world moved up yet another notch this morning with the release of a connector from Syncsort Inc. that aims to make it easier for organizations to tap records in their mainframes using Apache Spark. It’s being made available under the same open-source license as the data ...
SAP debuts an in-memory query engine for Spark in renewed IoT push
While the who’s who of the industry are at San Francisco’s Moscone Center for VMworld 2015, SAP SE is throwing an event of its own just over a over a mile away to introduce a new tool that promises to help organizations take better advantage of Apache Spark. The launch comes as the competition likewise ...
Apple partners with Cisco to provide a wireless “fast lane” for corporate iPhones
The corporate network is about to get a lot faster for iOS users thanks to a new partnership between Apple Inc. and Cisco Systems Inc. that will see traffic from iPhones and iPads receive priority treatment from the latter’s widely-deployed switches. It’s the latest of the mobile giant’s efforts to strengthen its hold over the ...
Startup Reduxio launches a new kind of hybrid array that makes snapshots “obsolete”
Between the roughly half a dozen startups leading the transition towards flash storage and all the traditional vendors that have jumped aboard the bandwagon, there isn’t much room left for new contenders. But Reduxio Systems Inc. thinks that the industry could make do with another hybrid array. The venture-backed startup is entering the game with the HX ...
Salesforce joins $108 million round into partner Apttus in biggest investment yet
Salesforce Ventures made the biggest investment in its six years of operation this morning as part of a $108 million round into a little-known partner called Apttus Inc. that has quietly risen to prominence in the billing management space. That handily beats the previous record, the $41 million capital infusion that the cloud giant led into the ...
VMware revamps its hybrid cloud stack for better interoperability
The predictable barrage of product announcements arrived on cue at VMworld 2015 this morning, tracing out a line from the data center all the way to the public cloud, which witnessed the biggest update with the addition of two key managed services. The launch comes amid serious doubts over the future of the virtualization giant’s ...
VMware taps startup Vera to provide “military-grade” data governance for virtual environments
Organizations using VMware Inc.’s virtualization software to power their infrastructure now have a powerful new option for data governance thanks to a partnership with Vera Inc. announced at its annual customer conference this morning. The alliance marks a major step forward for a technology that has already proven itself highly effective in the public cloud. ...
CloudPhysics brings data-driven monitoring to VMware environments
Keeping with tradition from previous years, CloudPhysics Inc. is debuting a major new iteration of its monitoring service at VMworld 2015 this morning that promises to help virtualization administrators become a lot more proactive in their work. That means catching risky configuration settings and stopping emerging problems before they have a chance to spread. CloudPhysics, ...