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Box adds analytics and automation to counter new threats from Amazon
As most traditional retailers and cloud service providers could attest, once Amazon.com Inc. is in the picture, trying to compete on pricing becomes an excerise in futility. That’s why a week after Jeff Bezos’s low-margin juggernaut entered the enterprise file sync market, Box Inc., the leader in that space, has pulled the curtains back on ...
Mainframe software titan Compuware to go private in $2.5B buyout
Compuware Corp. is officially leaving the stock market in a multi-billion-dollar deal that represents the end of another chapter in the history of the Detroit tech scene and provides a long-awaited exit for investors. The announcement of the landmark transaction comes a few short days after an insider leaked to the Wall Street Journal that ...
FireEye brings zero-day protection to Amazon cloud
Even though top providers such as Amazon.com Inc. spend considerably more resources on securing their environments than the majority of traditional IT organizations, many CIOs still mistrust the public cloud. Recognizing an opportunity, FireEye Inc. is looking to elevate some of those concerns with a new release of its flagship security service that works with ...
HP storage guru reveals how he shored up the 3PAR flash lineup | #vmworld
When Hewlett-Packard Co. unveiled its first purpose-built flash array last June, its pitch consisted of a mature management stack and not much else. Just over a year later, the company boasts one of the most well-rounded offerings in the high-end of the market that is at least as competitive on the hardware side as it ...
Teradata buys out the hottest Hadoop consultancy in Silicon Valley
Teradata Corp. hopes to close the loop on its Hadoop strategy with the acquisition of Think Big Analytics Inc., a professional services startup based in Mountain View that helps traditional organizations set up the necessary infrastructure to exploit their vast piles of untapped information. No financial details of were disclosed for the deal, the data ...
Google exec says VMware alliance is all part of search giant’s enterprise play | #vmworld
Lost in hype surrounding VMware Inc.’s recent move to embrace Docker, which is considered one of the single greatest threats to its proprietary brand of server virtualization, was the equally significant announcement of a partnership with Google to provide support for the search giant’s Kubernetes initiative. The open-source project relies on the Docker container engine ...
VMware’s plan: commoditize IT and kill Docker – but embrace it first | #vmworld
VMware Inc.’s recent foray into the converged infrastructure market is not merely an attempt to gain more control of its ecosystem but part of a broader push to help CIOs retool their operations, according to Chris Wolf, the hypervisor maker’s CTO for the Americas. Speaking on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE at the recently concluded VMworld conference in San ...
What you missed in Big Data: smaller means nimbler
The startup ecosystem continued to set the pace for the analytics industry last week with another series of major milestones that spell new competition for the incumbents reigning over the market today. GlassBeam Inc. fired the opening shot with the closing of $2.2 million in Series B funding from VKRM Group and new investor SRI ...
For Docker CEO Golub, it’s about being everywhere (even Windows) | #vmworld
Few enterprise software startups are growing as fast as Docker Inc., and probably none have managed to garner so much buzz in such a short time, certainly not anytime since the dot-com era. There’s a good reason for that, according to Docker CEO Ben Golub (right). Speaking on theCUBE at the recently concluded VMworld conference ...
Basho boss says workloads must drive infrastructure decisions | #vmworld
For the first time in recent memory, a major industry conference didn’t place Big Data at the center of attention, and the CEO of one of the hottest startups in that space says that’s a good thing. In his debut appearance on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE at the recently concluded VMworld 2014 summit, Basho Technologies Inc. head ...