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The rise in a new-generation of threats like the cyberespionage campaign China-linked hackers are seemingly waging against top U.S. corporations has helped catapult the need to modernize data center security practices to the top of the enterprise agenda. But in focusing on …
VMware upgrades vRealize for better hybrid cloud DevOps
The hybrid cloud is once again the center theme of VMware Inc.’s annual user conference in Barcelona, where attendees were greeted this morning by a new iteration of its infrastructure automation software that promises to take more complexity out of day-to-day operations. …
What Dell’s $67 billion acquisition of EMC means for the data center
After postponing his retirement not once but twice, Joe Tucci, the 67-year-old EMC Corp. CEO who has been called the last of the enterprise technology world’s old guard, is finally hanging up his spurs. The executive is concluding his long and fruitful …
Syncsort sells out to private equity fund
It’s shaping up to be a historic week for enterprise technology. Against the backdrop of Dell Inc. confirming its long-rumored plans to acquire EMC Corp. in one of the biggest mergers that the industry has ever seen, another veteran name in the business …
What you missed in Big Data: Chasing the competition
The buzz at Amazon Inc.’s annual re:Invent cloud conference last week spilled over into the analytics world following the introduction of a new business intelligence service promising to simplify the visualization of data stored on its platform. The aptly-named QuickSight comes with the …
What you missed at re:Invent: Container mania
Five days every year, the industry takes a break from its usual competitive routine and turns its collective attention to Las Vegas, where Amazon Inc. sets the agenda for the next 12 months in the public cloud at its re:Invent conference. Last week’s …
Segment raises $27 million for its data lake lite
The notion of centralizing all of an organization’s data in a single repository to improve access for users was shot down almost as soon as it entered the discussion due to the impossible logistics of the undertaking. But there do exist some …
EMC teams with Mesosphere in open-source storage push
Only a few weeks after entering an agreement to help Microsoft Corp. bring its namesake data center orchestration framework to Windows, Mesosphere Inc. is announcing a partnership with another major vendor hoping to secure a seat at the software-defined table. EMC Corp. …
Pure Storage tanks after lukewarm IPO in latest flash disappointment
Wall Street doesn’t seem to be nearly as enthusiastic about the applications of solid-state memory in the enterprise as storage practitioners judging by the reception to Pure Storage’s IPO. The array vendor, which saw its revenue quadruple last year, is now trading …
AppDirect joins the unicorn club following $140 million funding round
The latest addition to the billion-dollar valuation club is a six-year-old startup called AppDirect Inc. that raised $140 million in a funding round announced this morning to do for the enterprise what the App Store did for mobile content consumption. The difference …