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The public cloud returned to its roots last week after Amazon Inc. rolled out a dedicated hosting option that allows users to rent out entire servers in its data centers for the first time. The service is offered as an alternative to …
After pulling the plug on its public cloud, HPE turns to former rivals
Much like counterpart Satya Nadella at Microsoft Corp., Meg Whitman isn’t letting old rivalries stand in the way of her growth plans. Just over a month after announcing plans to shut down Hewlett-Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) struggling public cloud, the chief executive has …
Insiders: EMC scraps plans for joint cloud venture with VMware
The first casualty of EMC Corp.’s $67 billion acquisition by Dell Inc. appears to be its public cloud strategy, which was until recently set to see the disparate infrastructure-as-a-service offerings scattered throughout its federation combined into a new joint venture with VMware …
Fortscale raises $4 million to help enterprises defend against insider threats
As sophisticated as hackers have become in recent years, traditional external attacks against the corporate network are still overshadowed by the threat from malicious insiders, who account for a massive 43 percent of data breaches in the enterprise according to an Intel …
Superfish 2.0: Bogus certificate found lurking in Dell machines
Dell Inc. customers should think twice about using the preinstalled software on their computers from now on. The diagnostics toolkit that the consumer electronics giant ships with its most popular Windows machines to help troubleshoot problems has been found to use an unsafe root certificate …
Apache Brooklyn graduates from incubation to take on Google’s Kubernetes
The Apache Software Foundation swelled its ranks this morning with the addition of the open-source Brooklyn orchestration framework, which has officially become a top-level project after 18 months in incubation. The graduation is the culmination of a much longer journey that started in 2011 …
Cisco shells out $700 million for teleconferencing interoperability provider Acano
The booming London startup scene is marking another high-value exist with Cisco Systems Inc.’s acquisition of local enterprise communications specialist Acano Ltd. for a massive $700 million in cash and stock. The deal will help the networking giant make its teleconferencing solutions …
Intel and friends assimilate smart home group in bid for IoT dominance
The Intel Corp.-backed Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC) is expanding its presence in the smart home with the acquisition of a fellow standards association called the UPnP Forum, which was founded in 1999 to maintain the Universal Plug and Play family of peer-to-peer …
What you missed in Big Data: Smart connectivity
The difficulty of processing unstructured data is most often brought up in the context of the business analysts charged with extracting the insights inside, but it’s an equally big challenge for the developers who produce the software supporting that work. Last week …
What you missed in Cloud: Integration returns to the spotlight
The public cloud experienced yet another round of consolidation last week after Canadian hosting bigwig CentriLogic, Inc.. acquired a fellow Toronto-based provider called Advanced Knowledge Networks Inc. to grow its local footprint. One of the main factors behind the deal is the …