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The pieces of IBM Corp.’s plan to woo developers came together this morning with the release of a major upgrade to its public cloud that brings four new services for automating how information is handled inside web applications. Headlining the rollout is …
OpsClarity brings its automated monitoring tech to the Hadoop ecosystem
As if keeping tabs on how the different workloads in a data center interact wasn’t already difficult enough, Hadoop has another layer of dependencies among its internal components. The recently-funded OpsClarity Inc. hopes to simplify the monitoring of the analytics framework with …
Google and Verizon are reportedly teaming up against Amazon
For two underdogs in a market as competitive as the public cloud, joining forces is one of the only ways to push ahead. That’s how Google Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. reportedly ended up in talks to develop a joint infrastructure-as-a-service offering …
IBM joins $60 million funding round into blockchain startup Digital Asset
Big Blue appears to have developed an appetite for fintech startups. Two weeks after picking up Germany’s IRIS Analytics GmbH for its fraud detection technology, the company has contributed to a $60 million funding round in Digital Asset Holdings LLC. The capital …
HPE targets big banks with new cloud-based analytics service
Banks and other companies in regulated industries have an exponentially larger number of legal obligations to meet than the everyday enterprise, which makes it that much easier to end up on the wrong side of the compliance fence. Hewlett Packard Enterprise became the …
IBM bets big on marketing biz with second creative agency acquisition in a week
Already the world’s largest provider of marketing services, IBM Corp.’s Interactive Experience business is about to grow bigger still. The vendor today announced that more than 300 additional workers will join its ranks in the coming months as part of the acquisition of …
“The Beast” is the internal nickname for Cisco’s newest SAN director
The game of one-upmanship in the storage networking market reached another height today with the introduction of a new director switch from Cisco Systems Inc. that packs what is described as a record-setting 786 ports. The combined bandwidth capacity of the MDS …
Druva puts all-in-one twist on its cloudy data protection service
The one-stop value proposition has proven itself across countless different product categories and market segments over the past few decades. Now, Druva Inc. is looking to add cloud-based data protection to the list with the addition of a new disaster recovery feature …
Microsoft wants to move its data centers underseas
More and more organizations are deploying their hardware in self-contained data center modules as part of the industry shift towards converged infrastructure. But out of all the big names on the bandwagon, Microsoft Corp. is the only one implementing the model underwater. …
What you missed in Big Data: Separating the signal from the noise
While most of its peers in the contact center automation segment focus on helping organizations improve the quality of their support, Pindrop Inc. makes its living separating legitimate callers from potential scammers. Its software has been adopted by three of the four …