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SIOS is bringing machine learning into VMware environments | #CUBEconversations
There’s much talk in industry circles about the potential of machine learning to automate and improve IT infrastructure, but the discussion can seem distant to the majority of administrators working for traditional organizations that are still grappling with the everyday challenges of virtualization. That’s the divide that SIOS Technology Corp. has set out to bridge with ...
Wi-Fi Alliance rolls out P2P standard for the Internet of Things
The prerequisite to realizing the grand vision for vast networks of connected devices working in tandem to improve our lives that has been going around in recent years is an effective medium to facilitate that connectivity within the constraints of the underlying hardware. Numerous protocols and standards have emerged over that period to meet the ...
ARM gains more ground in the data center as SUSE joins the 64-bit party
Intel Corp.’s decades-long dominion over the data center isn’t about to end anytime soon, but the first cracks are starting to show. SUSE LLC, one of the top commercial distributors of Linux in the enterprise, has begun offering partners a special version of its platform specifically designed to run on ARM chips. The move, like ...
More love for Docker monitoring as Sysdig bags $10.7 million from VCs
After managing an impressive few weeks without a single funding announcement, the Docker ecosystem is returning to its usual energetic self with the completion of a $10.7 million round in an emerging startup called Sysdig Inc. that offers monitoring for containerized services. It’s the third such provider to have hit the industry radar recently. We’ve previously ...
Delphix scores $75 million for its data virtualization service
The wave of investor interest in storage consolidation reached full circle this morning after Delphix Inc., one of the earliest pioneers of the centralized data management movement, revealed the completion of a hefty $75 million investment from a roster of high-profile backers. The funding ups the ante for the other players that have emerged lately to capitalize on the ...
Microsoft targets new Cortana Analytics Suite at knowledge workers
Microsoft Corp.’s Cortana is officially coming to the enterprise with the launch of a new suite that leverages the artificial intelligence as a natural-language interface for accessing insights generated using its cloud-based data processing services. It’s an arrangement that could potentially prove tremendously attractive for organizations hoping to step up their analytics efforts. That appeal ...
What you missed in Big Data: Evolving positions
The competitive roster of the analytics world was reshuffled once again last week after Splunk Inc. splashed $190 million on a relatively low-key machine learning specialist called Caspida Inc. in its largest acquisition to date. The deal will help make its log management platform better-equipped to catch hackers on the corporate network, already one of ...
What you missed in Cloud: Shifting competition
Last week was an especially busy one in the cloud, with not one but two of the industry’s leading infrastructure-as-a-service providers debuting new services to reach more parts of the enterprise. The opening shot, as usual, came from Amazon Inc., which doubled down on developers with the launch of several project management capabilities into general ...
Azure Data Catalog is a crowdsourced discovery service for business analysts
Microsoft Corp. has clearly perfected the art of playing catch-up with Amazon Inc. in the public cloud over the last few years. Less than 24 hours after its arch-nemesis debuted two new services for developers, the software powerhouse is firing back with the announcement of a fully managed discovery engine aimed at another key constituency in ...
AWS launches Device Farm and API Gateway to attract mobile developers
Vendors usually avoid introducing new products in the middle of the fiscal year when technology budgets are already committed to other solutions, but then Amazon Inc. is not known for following competitive conventions. The cloud-turned-retail giant pulled another surprise from its sleeve this morning in the form of two new services meant to help make ...