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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …