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What you missed in Cloud: Disrupting consumption models
The promise of cloud computing remains elusive for the traditional enterprise nearly a decade after the trend first reared its head. Organizations are caught in a trade-off between control and flexibility that makes it difficult to realize the full benefits of the model, but striking the right balance became a notch easier last week as ...
Catalogic unleashes ECX 2.0 to tame duplicate data in the enterprise
Catalogic Software Inc. has launched a new version of its copy management platform that promises to help organizations make more efficient use of their storage capacity amid the rapid growth in unstructured data. The release is the culmination of a journey that started three years ago at an entirely different company. The technology at the ...
Rising SDN wave, Cisco sees demand for programmable gear soar in the second quarter
Software-defined networking poses a threat to the expensive proprietary appliances that the current industry leaders make most their living selling, but that hasn’t stopped Cisco Systems Inc. from achieving record growth in the second quarter. In contrast to other industry giants that have seen revenue growth slow in the face of customer demand for services ...
AppDirect lands $50 million to put “on-demand” into cloud services
AppDirect Inc. has snagged $50 million from investors to bring the one-click purchase model that Apple helped popularize on mobile devices to cloud services in the enterprise. The capital infusion tops off a wave of industry interest in making it easier for organizations to consume technology. It was only a week ago that EMC introduced ...
Hitachi’s Pentaho acquisition is part of bigger industrial Internet strategy
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) Corp. is acquiring one of the fastest rising names on the business intelligence block as part of a strategic pivot into the connected universe. The Japanese technology giant has reportedly agreed to pay between $500 and $600 million for Pentaho Corp., which makes the deal the biggest exit in the category ...
Watch out, hackers! Facebook rallies web giants behind new threat-sharing network
Facebook has launched a new platform for companies to share information on security threats aimed at facilitating industry collaboration against hacking. The initiative is the latest in a string that the social networking juggernaut introduced over recent years to encourage cooperation on key technology trends. It all started in 2011 with the Open Compute Project, ...
Datadog makes first acquisition to expand its analytics reach
Datadog Inc., a rising star in the burgeoning cloud monitoring space, has bought out a fellow New York analytics startup to provide a broader view of infrastructure and applications. No financial terms were disclosed, but it’s safe to assume a substantial part of the capital for the purchase came from the $31 million funding round Datadog ...
SAP seeks 360° customer view with ‘hybris’ marketing platform
SAP SE is introducing a new “contextual marketing platform” from its e-commerce division that seeks to provide a comprehensive view of customers. The business intelligence giant claims that it’s in a unique position to deliver on that well-worn pitch thanks to the use of multiple internal and external data sources. The aptly-named hybris Marketing suite integrates ...
Smart-home devices riddled with security flaws, HP study finds
The increasingly sophisticated and powerful security systems emerging from the connected universe present a double-edged sword for the smart home, according to a new study from Hewlett-Packard on the risks of the technology. The results are alarming, to say the least. The hardware giant unleashed its cloud-based vulnerability testing service on 10 of the most ...
What you missed in Cloud: New frontiers for virtualization
The competition over enterprise cloud spending kicked into high gear last week on the virtualization front as VMware revealed a new version of its namesake hypervisor that promises to address some of the biggest pain points in managing off-premise infrastructure. Chief among them is distance. Moving virtual machines to a remote geographic location involves a ...