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What you missed in Big Data: Vertical focus
Vertical-specific use cases took on a new importance in the analytics world last week after IBM Corp. announced the acquisition of a medical imaging provider for a billion dollars to augment its Watson-based medical analytics service. The technology it’s gaining through Merge Healthcare Inc. will enable the cloud-based platform to tap the CAT scans, X-rays and the ...
Google taps Avere’s NAS filer to open up its public cloud for the traditional enterprise
The programmatic approach of making data available through pre-implemented functions that mask the shifting complexity of the underlying logic has enabled public clouds such as Google Inc.’s to draw developers away from traditional storage solutions en masse. But many existing applications still abide by the old standards, which is why it’s teamed up with Avere ...
New nightmare exploit cracks cloud-based file sharing services wide open
File sharing providers such as Dropbox Inc. and Box Inc. have managed to maintain an impressive security record in spite of safeguarding vast amounts of corporate data that represents a massive target for hackers. But while their backend infrastructure may be protected, the local clients through which users synchronize their data to that backend are ...
OpenStack kingpin Mirantis throws its weight behind CoreOS
Securing partnerships with larger and better-established players is a key priority in the growth plans of any software startup, which is why landing the backing of a top OpenStack distributor is such a big deal for CoreOS Inc.’s container push. The newly announced alliance with Mirantis Inc. focuses first and foremost on its commercial management platform. Tectonic, ...
IBM launches new service suite to help Apple drive Mac adoption in the enterprise
The partnership that IBM Corp. struck with Apple Inc. last year to produce a series of business applications for iOS is moving beyond mobility with the launch of a new service suite that the enterprise technology stalwart is targeting towards large organizations adopting Mac machines. That segment represents a potentially massive opportunity that it’s in a unique ...
Microsoft revamps Outlook to help Office 365 users become more productive
Microsoft Corp. has turned the long-lagging web version of Outlook into a more integrated part of its online productivity suite with a landmark update that began rolling out yesterday and promises to help users manage their messages a lot more effectively. What ties the vision together is a new universal toolbar with features that should ...
Red Hat debuts new OpenStack distribution for reliability-conscious organizations
Three months after the latest release of OpenStack became available for download, the distribution race is officially won. Red Hat Inc. became the first vendor to have upgraded its version of the platform to the new iteration of the free management stack this morning with the introduction of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7, which brings ...
Storage startup Tintri scores a massive $125 million in funding to spread the flash gospel
After months of back-and-forth product updates in the flash storage ecosystem, Tintri Inc. is upping the ante with the announcement of a landmark $125 million funding round meant to help expand the adoption of its hybrid array series. The appliances are already among the most popular of their kind. Tintri hit the scene seven years ago ...
SUSE continues platform push with support for IBM’s Power-based HANA machines
IBM Corp.’s line of in-memory data processing appliances landed a key supporter from the operating system world this morning in the form of SUSE LLC, which announced that its namesake Linux distribution is now officially certified to run on the machines. It’s the latest pit-stop along the latter’s journey beyond the x86 servers powering most ...
Alert Logic debuts cloud-native security engine for AWS
Amazon Web Services is one of the most well-protected online properties in existence, with a security record clean enough even for the CIA. But that safety doesn’t extend much beyond the core infrastructure, leaving individual deployments no less vulnerable to configuration flaws than than any other environment. That’s a hole that partner Alert Logic Inc. ...