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HP unleashes new hyperconverged appliance for small and mid-sized customers
A year after debuting its first entry into the world of hyperconverged appliances, Hewlett-Packard Co. is launching a successor described as faster, more efficient and, perhaps most importantly, fairly easy to use. That reflects a focus on small- and medium-sized buyers with limited resources that are interested in keeping their management overhead to a minimum. ...
Zscaler scores $100 million to expand its cloud-based security service
Zscaler Inc. moved $100 million closer to its long-anticipated public offering this morning after announcing the completion of an oversubscribed round led by private equity giant TPG Capital. The investment is the latest sign of the venture capital community’s unprecedented interest in cloud security amid the accelerating migration of corporate data beyond the firewall. That ...
What you missed in Big Data; A new era for marketing automation
Marketing made a comeback into the analytics discussion last week after Radius Intelligence Inc. raised a hefty $50 million from investors to support the development of its business-to-business targeting service. The funding caps off a record year that saw its revenue quadruple thanks to an influx of new clients drawn to the prospect of being able ...
What you missed in Cloud: Go big or go home
As if more proof was required of how high the stakes have become in the public cloud, Alibaba Holding Group Ltd. pledged to make a ten-figure investment in its infrastructure-as-a-service arm last week to take the fight to competition and build new data centers in three additional continents. The first stop is the U.S. East ...
HP wants to help simplify the switch to Windows 10 for CIOs
Downloading Windows 10 is as easy as hitting the upgrade icon in the system tray for the average consumer, but it’s an entirely different story in large enterprises with upwards of tens of thousands of users to manage. The challenge lies not so much in the installation itself as moving the related organizational processes, which ...
Report: Top providers joining forces to combat hackers in the public cloud
Threat sharing networks are nothing new, but one forthcoming addition to the bunch could hold tremendous significance for the millions of organizations storing data beyond the firewall. Rackspace Inc. is reportedly in the process of recruiting its fellow providers for a consortium that will attempt to set deep-seated rivalries set aside to help make the ...
Obama signs executive order to build world’s first exascale supercomputer
The next big breakthrough in supercomputing may not come from IBM Corp, Cray Inc. or any of the other original pioneers of the field but rather a new interagency task force formed through an executive order this week with the goal of building the world’s first exascale cluster. That represents a more than order of ...
DataTorrent debuts free data integration service to complement its ultra-fast Spark alternative
DataTorrent Inc. is wasting no time adjusting to its new status as an open-source company. Merely two months after releasing its homegrown data crunching engine for Hadoop under an Apache 2.0 license, the analytics provider is launching a free companion tool designed to help users move their information into the analytics framework more easily. There are already ...
HP buys Stackato, the PaaS powering its hybrid cloud, from long-time partner
The latest acquisition in Hewlett-Packard Co.’s renewed shopping spree should come as little surprise to customers. The technology giant has bought Stackato, a platform-as-a-service toolkit developed by a Canadian partner called ActiveState Software Inc. that has been shipping with its public cloud for the last three years. There reason why HP chose the technology over ...
Alibaba invests a billion dollars to dethrone Amazon in the public cloud
Chinese e-commerce titan Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is opening a new competitive front against arch-nemesis Amazon Inc. with a billion dollar investment in its cloud business that will help fuel expansion to three additional continents. It’s an ambitious move taken straight out of the IBM Corp. playbook, or perhaps more appropriately, checkbook. The enterprise technology ...