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Alibaba dodges bullet as researchers flag security flaw in its commerce engine
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has patched a major vulnerability in one of its e-commerce portals that exposed tens of millions of users to possible account theft or worse. Almost as alarming as the magnitude of the threat, which was successfully averted, is the ease with which a keen-eyed cybercriminal could have exploited the flaw to ...
First Apple/IBM mobile apps illustrate alliance’s enterprise focus
Barely five months after first revealing an alliance to target mobile workers in vertical markets, IBM and Apple are rolling out the first ten of the more than 100 planned applications that the partnership is set to produce. The short time between the announcement of their landmark partnership and delivery of products shows the urgency ...
Newly independent Cloud Foundry parts ways with EMC Federation
The industry’s hottest open-source platform-as-a-a-service (PaaS) stack is entering the next stage of its evolution with the inaugurat ion of the Cloud Foundry Foundation, which is officially taking over responsibility for its namesake project from the EMC federation. The launch marks the latest chapter in what has been an unusually long journey dating back more than ...
Blue-chip investors pile on to DataGravity’s analytical storage
DataGravity Inc. has raised a healthy $50 million in funding from the venerable Accel Partners and several other venture capital giants to promote its hybrid storage arrays. The series is said to be the first in the industry to include built-in data analytics functionality. That unique approach is the brainchild of industry veterans Paula Long ...
Altiscale nets $30 million for purpose-built Hadoop cloud
With the industry’s eyes fixed on the growing rivalry among the top Hadoop distributors, Altiscale Inc. is quietly encroaching into the emerging market for managed implementations of the notoriously complex data-crunching framework. The startup raised an additional $30 million in funding on Tuesday to expand its efforts. Altiscale is not the first nor the only ...
What you missed in cloud: Docker courts the enterprise
Last week saw containers return to the center of attention in the cloud after Docker Inc. unleashed three orchestration tools that make the technology much more viable for enterprise-scale projects. The additions span the bulk of the application management lifecycle, starting with the initial set-up. Instead of having to individually configure the hosts in their ...
Top investors stoke Mesosphere with $36M for data center operating system
Mesosphere Inc. kicked off the week with a $36 million funding round led by Khosla Ventures to push its homegrown spin on the concept of a unified data center operating system. The new platform departs from the traditional virtualization model to provide a centralized pool of resources that resembles the average consumer device more than ...
SAP reported to be building massive cloud marketplace
SAP SE hopes to build a massive cloud-based marketplace that will enable organizations to consume software and services as needed on a self-service basis, according to a New York Times report citing senior-level insiders. If true, the plan would add the business software giant to the growing ranks of enterprise vendors trying to put their ...
Microsoft pledges to reunite splintered .NET Framework
A month after revealing plans to open up .NET, Microsoft has provided an early glimpse into the future of the development framework beyond Windows. The company is promising to do away with the legacy barriers that have held back the technology from the new era of multi-platform applications, and developers say it can’t move quickly ...
What you missed in Big Data: Accessibility rules
For all the talk of increased automation in data collection and processing, information is only as useful as what the user can make of it. That once again emerged as the dominant theme in the analytics market last week, with several vendors making significant progress in their efforts to make insights more accessible to enterprise ...