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Red Hat makes a strategic investment in OpenStack database-as-a-service Trove
The OpenStack project was launched five years ago with the singular mission of making it easier to provision and scale on-premise infrastructure, but as adoption slowly started to gain steam, the need spread up the stack to the applications running above. That’s what ended up driving Red Hat Inc. to announce a rare strategic investment ...
DataGravity infuses more automation smarts into its analytic hybrid arrays
While the world’s largest organizations are working to decouple their workloads from underlying hardware, DataGravity Inc. is helping small- and medium-sized businesses move in the exact opposite direction with its analytic storage arrays. And its integrated value proposition was made even more attractive this week following the release of a major overhaul to the management stack ...
Docker Content Trust shores up container security
While the surrounding partner ecosystem works to fill its manageability gaps, Docker Inc. is trying to tackle the other major challenge facing its namesake containerization engine with the addition of a new security feature meant to address the lack of native workload protections. It’s an expansion of the digital signing functionality rolled out for the ...
HP targets speedy new Vertica release at real-time Hadoop clusters
SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE isn’t the only thing turning heads at Hewlett-Packard Co.’s third annual analytics conference in Boston this morning. The opening keynote saw the introduction of a new iteration of its widely-used columnar data store optimized to support real-time processing at massive scale. The “Excavator” release of Vertica packs a specialized access layers developed in collaboration ...
Full circle: Symantec sells off Veritas for $8 billion in cash
A year after unveiling plans to unload its data protection business in a push to refocus on driving growth, Symantec Inc. is finally moving forward with the break-up, although not quite as originally intended. While chief executive Michael Brown initially envisioned separating his outfit into two separate publicly-traded entities, its other half is now being ...
DigitalOcean taps Bitnami’s self-updating app marketplace to expand developer choice
The meteoric rise of DigitalOcean Inc. to the second place on the list of the world’s largest cloud providers isn’t owed to any one factor, but the simplicity of its platform can be credited with an outsized contribution to that growth. And now the startup is doubling down on that ease-of-use through the addition of a ...
American Airlines and Sabre hit by reported Chinese hack
The hackers behind the biggest data breaches of the past year have reportedly struck again in a two-fold attack against American Airlines Group Inc. and flight reservation management giant Sabre Corp. that may have compromised millions of people. The information likely plundered through the cyberheist completes another piece of a complex identify puzzle being assembled in ...
IBM discovers another critical Android flaw that lets hackers replace real apps with malware
IBM Corp. has not waited for the shock from the recent discovery of a vulnerability affecting 95 percent of Android phones to wear off before dropping another security bombshell that is bound to raise even more alarm over the safety of the world’s most popular mobile platform. Its researchers have discovered a second exploit deep ...
What you missed in Cloud: The platforms of the future
The focus in the cloud turned to platforms last week, the highly scalable kind built to support the world’s largest enterprises. Red Hat Inc. set the ball rolling with the launch of a new version of its popular OpenStack distribution that promises to provide exactly the kind of elasticity required for the task. Red Hat Enterprise Linux ...
Syncsort updates its data processing software to cut the mainframe bill
More than fifty years after the first mainframe entered the enterprise, big iron continues to find use with the world’s largest institutions, and continues to impose many of the original operational challenges on its prestigious user base. Standing out in particular is the matter of ongoing costs, which Syncsort Inc. hopes to tackle with the ...