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While most of the other vendors attending the Mobile World Congress this week are showing off their latest consumer gadgets, BlackBerry Ltd. is focusing solely on the enterprise. The main talking point at the company’s booth this morning is its launch of …
Infobright promises x1000 faster queries with new optimization tool
Vendors in the overcrowded data management space are becoming more and more creative in their efforts to stand out from the pack. The latest example of this increasing resourcefulness comes from Infobright Inc., which is rolling out a new offering today that …
Nimble dives into the all-flash market with new petabyte-scale systems
Six months after word leaked that Nimble Storage Inc. is planning to follow in the footsteps of its top rivals from the hybrid array market and expand to the all-flash category, the news is now official. The vendor this morning pulled back …
Alluxio, the in-memory store for Apache Spark, hits version 1.0
As the Hadoop File System continues to lose traction among Spark adopters, new and more sophisticated storage frameworks are starting to take its place. One of the most popular options is the open-source Alluxio (previously known as Tachyon), which is moving under …
Docker takes containers on-premise with new DevOps platform
Thousands of organizations have adopted Docker Inc.’s container engine since its release three years ago, but only a tiny fraction boast large-scale production deployments. And the number becomes even smaller when narrowing down the list to traditional enterprises. The startup is moving …
xMatters wants to solve DevOps’ communications problem
The first step toward bringing a downed server back online or undoing a botched patch is finding the right person for the task, which is easier said than done in a large enterprise with thousands of employees. Alerting provider xMatters Inc. has …
What you missed in Big Data: Training AIs
Last week witnessed yet another escalation in the fight to win over the hearts and minds of the machine learning community. The first shot came from Google Inc., which open-sourced a homegrown automation framework designed to simplify the deployment of the complex …
What you missed in Cloud: Reining in off-premise records
Renting hardware resources from a cloud provider is much more convenient than buying and maintaining in-house infrastructure, but managing the workloads running on top is an entirely different story. The difficulty of handling the growing amounts of information that are being moved …
KPCB-backed Trusona exits stealth to disrupt user authentication
Venture-backed security startups are a dime a dozen nowadays, but Trusona Inc. stands out. For starters, one of its advisers is credited as the inspiration behind a blockbuster Leonardo DiCaprio film. And more notably, it’s developed a new kind of authentication service …
Pivotal picks up Singaporean web development shop Neo Innovation
If three do indeed make a trend as the old journalistic saying goes, then Pivotal Software Inc. is now officially on an acquisition streak. The vendor this week made its third strategic purchase in two months and picked up a Singaporean web …