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Cisco to let customers run competitors’ software on its flagship switches
Cisco Systems Inc. is adding support for a key software-defined networking standard to its flagship backbone switches as part of an effort to provide customers with more freedom in how they run their environments. The update underscores the broader shift to open standards, a trend that is slowly forcing incumbent vendors to change their proprietary ...
Actifio cloudifies data virtualization tech to keep storage costs down
Actifio Inc. is launching a new cloud-based implementation of its flagship data virtualization technology that offers to help companies protect their applications from outages more effectively. The service tackles a new side of the fundamental operational challenge that the startup has made its goal to address. Organizations suffer from a great deal of sprawl in ...
Iterable nets $1.2 million for holistic email marketing service
An emerging startup called Iterable Inc. has raised $1.2 million in seed funding from a group of prominent angel investors to bring email back to the marketing fore in the social media era. The capital will help fuel the development of its namesake service, which provides a command center for targeting online audiences. Iterable plugs ...
What you missed in Big Data: Governance (again) tops the industry’s agenda
The past week witnessed a number of major milestones in evolution of enterprise analytics across both the open-source and proprietary camps, which came together around the fundamental challenges of processing data at scale. Hortonworks Inc. led the charge with the launch of a new industry effort aimed at addressing the need to control the massive ...
Tech giants propose privacy standard for the public cloud
As organizations shift more of their data to the public cloud, including a steadily growing number of mission-critical workloads, the need for privacy controls grows. A group representing some of the biggest names in tech has put forth a standard aimed at addressing that requirement on an industry level for the first time. The rather ...
Hackers raid Anthem in biggest health care breach yet
Barely a month into the new year, industry has already experienced its first large-scale data breach. Anthem Inc., the second largest insurance provider in the U.S., said it fell victim to a historic attack that saw hackers make off with personal information belonging to tens of millions of Americans. A systems administrator at Anthem, which ...
VMware picks up Immidio for VDI smarts
Hot on the heels of releasing a landmark upgrade for its hypervisor, VMware is dropping another bombshell with the acquisition of a low-key startup called Immidio B.V. to match the competition on desktop virtualization. The deal buys the company much-needed profile management capabilities for controlling which applications and data users receives with their images. Immidio ...
Cloudera buys startup for query optimization
Cloudera has acquired an emerging startup called Xplain.io Inc. to help organizations run their analytic clusters more efficiently. The deal could provide it with needed differentiation amid increased competition from rival Hadoop distributors that are making substantial gains on other fronts. Former Oracle engineer Anupam Singh founded Xplain.io in his back yard 15 months ago together ...
It’s the thing to do: EMC builds app store into VMware-powered converged appliance
App stores and data center equipment apparently go well together, or at least that’s what some vendors seem to believe. Hewlett-Packard offers an application catalog for its software-denied networking platform and now EMC is jumping on the bandwagon with a new converged infrastructure module that offers– you guessed it – a selection of pre-packaged services ...
Continuous integration buzz continues: Investors pour $15 million into Sauce Labs
Sauce Labs Inc. reappeared on the industry radar this morning after raising $15 million to capitalize on the accelerating adoption of continuous integration principles in the traditional enterprise. The investment will help fuel the development of its flagship testing service, which provides a cloud-based environment for organizations to test their customer-facing applications. The three-year-old startup ...