Maria Deutscher
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With the recent wave of high-profile attacks against major banks and retailers, cybercrime has come to dominate the headlines in the security world, but a new study from Vormetric, Inc. reveals that it’s not outside but rather insider threats that top the …
Cloud startup goBalto bags $12 million for tools to speed drug trials
Adding to the momentum of cloud services in the health care industry, goBalto Inc. raised another $12 million from investors on Wednesday to help accelerate the development of new drugs. The investment brings the startup’s total funding to $37.6 million, making it …
No, it’s not a typo: Oracle plugs a record 167 security holes
Oracle rolled out a mammoth batch of patches on Tuesday in the first of four annual security fixes for its vast array of enterprise software products. What makes the otherwise routine update stand out is the sheer number of vulnerabilities addressed: a …
MuleSoft bridges gaps between mobile and enterprise data
MuleSoft Inc. is rolling out a major upgrade to its popular application connectivity service that takes aim at one of the most overlooked challenges in enterprise mobility: hooking up applications running on employee devices to the back-end infrastructure storing the data that …
Egnyte moves to steal Box’s analytics thunder
Days before enterprise file-sharing kingpin Box Inc. is due to hit the stock exchange, one of its biggest rivals is rolling out new analytics functionality as part of a deliberately timed pivot aimed at taking the competitive fight beyond collaboration. The move …
What CIOs can learn from web startups running containers in production
Gartner Inc. recently brought the gaping functional gaps between containers and conventional virtualization into the spotlight with a widely-covered report that concluded that the average organization is still better off using a hypervisor than a container for most workloads. That isn’t stopping …
Why software-defined networking matters | #VTUG
Software-defined networking promises the freedom to provision transport capacity through a consistent programming interface instead of individually configuring the underlying components, but details of how that will translate into practice for the average organization have been relatively scarce. Joe Onisick of Cisco …
Apache Falcon gets top-level status, filling gap in Hadoop ecosystem
Hadoop marked another milestone along its breakneck evolution on Monday when Falcon, one of the most promising technologies in the upstream ecosystem, exited incubation to become a top-level project of the Apache Software Foundation. The news comes just a few short months after the …
Canonical ushers Ubuntu into the Internet of Things
Canonical Ltd. is making the container-centric edition of its popular Ubuntu Linux distribution available for connected devices in a major expansion of its existing mobile efforts into the Internet of Things. Ubuntu Core made its original debut almost four years ago with …
What you missed in Cloud: One-upsmanship
The public cloud saw a spike in activity last week as both emerging providers and established names stepped up their fight over infrastructure spending amid growing interest from new types of buyers. Google provided the initial push with the release of a service …