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IBM teams with Actifio for “data virtualization” service
Big Blue has once again thrown down the gauntlet to Amazon with the Tuesday announcement of a new cloud-based service that aims to help companies rein in on Big Data by reducing storage requirements to a minimum. One of the main barriers keeping organizations from tapping into their growing information troves is the need to ...
OpenStack community making strides towards enterprise-readiness | #OEForum
Three and a half years after launch, OpenStack is growing faster than ever. Initially regarded as just another cloud experiment, the platform has emerged as the de facto operating system for massively scalable open environments, garnering hundreds of corporate backers and thousands of individual contributors along the way. The attendance figures from last week’s OpenStack ...
Adaptive Planning rebrands as Adaptive Insights, refreshes platform
While it has not received nearly as much attention as other fast-growing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers such as Workday and ServiceNow, Adaptive Planning is emerging as an equally formidable force in the enterprise. Adaptive Planning, a provider of cloud-based business analytics solutions, had focused exclusively on selling cloud-based budgeting solutions for most of its 11-year history. But ...
HP outlines new enterprise threat landscape in annual report
Despite increasing security awareness and a heightened focus on information privacy, enterprises remain highly vulnerable to all manner of cyber attacks, Hewlett-Packard concluded in the latest installment of its annual Cyber Risk Report. Published on Monday, the paper lists configuration issues and and widespread use of antiquated technologies among the main threats to large organizations. ...
Insiders say Dell preparing for massive layoffs, spokesperson denies
Rumor has it that Dell intends to lay off a substantial portion of its workforce in what is shaping up to be the company’s largest cost cutting sweep since going private last September. Citing two sources familiar with the matter, British tech publication The Register reported on Monday that the struggling hardware maker is preparing ...
Early SiliconANGLE contributor Sean Percival now a partner at 500 Startups
Seed investment and accelerator fund 500 Startups today announced that it has recruited two new venture partners, including early SiliconANGLE contributor and serial entrepreneur Sean Percival. Currently the vice president of marketing at Topix, a fast growing local news and forum site, he has made a reputation for himself as an expert on all things ...
Twitter waves white flag in patent wars, strikes compromise with IBM
Being a fast-growing web company with only a handful of patents has made Twitter a natural target of intellectual property bullying. The microblogging was hit with its first infringement lawsuit in 2009 after the Texas-based TechRadium claimed ownership over the concept of mass notification systems, and in November 2013 received a letter from IBM accusing ...
OpenStack pioneer Chris Kemp says enterprise cloud headed for revolution | #OEForum
Saving the best for last, theCUBE hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante wrapped up the recently concluded OpenStack Enterprise Forum with an in-depth discussion on the private cloud featuring Chris Kemp, an open source visionary who led the development of OpenStack as the CTO of NASA. He went on to found Nebula, a startup that ...
Weekly cloud review: SaaS vendors double down on privacy, expand footpirnt
Cloud computing is sweeping through the enterprise, but the allure of improved productivity and universal access comes at a heavy price, leaving IT organizations struggling to manage the risks introduced by the use of unauthorized – and potentially unsafe – applications. Enter Bitglass, which emerged from stealth on Wednesday to eliminate the tradeoff between security ...
Weekly Big Data review: Hadoop, alternative databases march on
Despite the deafening buzz around hyperscale and OpenStack, the Big Data ecosystem continued along on its path of growth this week, with Altiscale pulling the curtains back on a hosted platform built from the ground up to run Hadoop. The newly launched Altiscale Data Cloud is designed specifically for organizations that lack the technical expertise ...