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Red-hot data visualization vendor Tableau Software Inc. will attempt to position itself at the center of an ecosystem during its this seventh annual customer event in Seattle this week by showcasing an impressive lineup of partners that are building upon the company’s …
Advertisers win in Facebook’s efforts to dethrone YouTube
Facebook Inc. appears to be positioning itself as a rival to YouTube with new functionality aimed at bringing the media viewing experience on the News Feed more up to par with that offered by Google Inc.’s dominant video sharing website. The social …
Fool me twice: Malware used in Target attack catches Home Depot off guard nearly a year later
The latest major cyberattack on a top U.S. retailer employed a variant of the malware that hackers used to break into the network of Target Corp. last December, according to influential security blogger Brian Krebs. The holiday season heist saw the assailants …
The public cloud gets more secure with chip-level enforcement and real-time behavior scanning
IBM hopes to address CIOs’ persistent unease with the state of cloud security by adding a new layer of control for its infrastructure-as-a-service platform that enables organizations to enforce access policies down to the chip level. Dedicated servers from SoftLayer, the managed …
How a 140-year-old utility biz went back to selling subscriptions – via the cloud
Ohio’s CBTS may not be a household name like Google or Amazon, but it boasts a much longer and extensive history than either. The firm traces its roots to local telephone kingpin Cincinnati Bell, which began operating all the way back in …
The software-defined data center puzzle is finally clicking together | #VMworld
VMware Inc. has closed the loop on the software-defined data center, according to the head of its software-defined data center unit. Appearing on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE at the virtualization giant’s recently concluded customer conference in San Francisco, vice president John Gilmartin made the …
Facebook and LinkedIn double down on privacy with new controls
The social media sphere has produced quite a few notable privacy controversies in recent years, a reputation that the top networks are now trying to shake off with new features aimed at enabling users to take responsibility over who can view their …
What you missed in Big Data: Hadoop bandwagon gets even more crowded
Hadoop has once again emerged as the flavor of the week for the industry after Cisco Systems Inc. pulled the curtains back on new solutions in its Unified Computing System (UCS) family of converged infrastructure solution that take aim at the core …
What you missed in Cloud: an odd mishmesh of containers and analytics
Cloud computing may have settled in as a permanent fixture of the enterprise technology landscape, but the chase for the next big thing is not over by any stretch. The hot new technology making headlines today is containerization, which the industry appears …
Analyst expectations for Tableau as new rivals emerge
For all the talk of automation among analytics vendors nowadays, data is ultimately only as useful as what the user can take away from it, a fundamental reality of decision-making that was largely glossed over until Tableau Software Inc. came along. The …