Maria Deutscher
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With the workplace now extending beyond the four corners of the office into the public cloud and the mobile universe, the traditional perimeter-centric approach to securing corporate data has become all but obsolete. Yet while much of the vendor ecosystem is still …
Honey, I shrunk BlackBerry: CEO signals growth stage of bold restructure plan
After three years marked by wave after wave of aggressive cutbacks, employees at BlackBerry Ltd. can finally catch a breather, according to an internal memo from CEO John Chen that fell into the hands of the press on Tuesday. The news hold …
From chore to value: How HP analytics transformed data protection| #HPdiscover
To say that Hewlett-Packard Co.’s acquisition of Autonomy didn’t go smoothly would be a tremendous understatement, but three years, an $8.8 billion writedown and several lawsuits later, the deal is paying dividends. That accomplishment didn’t come for free: it’s the result of …
Not even if they paid us! Globalfoundries turns down $1B from IBM to take over chip biz
IBM has reportedly hit its first major bump on the road to rid itself of the low-margin chip business after long-time supplier Globalfoundries Inc. refused a $1 billion offer to take over its struggling semiconductor operations. If true, the collapse of the …
Equinix cements position in hybrid cloud with Blue Box support
The promise of a hybrid cloud that makes it possible to shift workloads between on- and off-premise environments based on the specific business requirements at hand is certainly compelling, but what it has in allure it lacks in practicality. The ability to …
Weeding out bot traffic the Big Data way, comScore makes first acquisition in years
Data science has proven an invaluable asset in identifying malicious activity on the corporate network, a benefit that comScore Inc. is looking to put in the hands of online marketers with the purchase of MdotLabs Inc., its first acquisition in three years. …
After 9-month beta, RightScale launches multi-cloud analytics platform
From Netflix Inc.’s decision to open-source the Ice utility it uses for tracking internal Amazon Web Services (AWS) consumption to the recent move by Rackspace Inc. to simplify its pricing model, the industry’s collective efforts have helped make the public cloud more …
The human side to data governance | #MITIQ
There are as many opinions on the role of the chief data officer (CDO) as there definitions of the emerging position, but few are as well-informed as that of professor Yang Lee from Northwestern University. She helped author one of the single …
Sqrrl ups Hadoop support through integration with Hunk visualization
The security industry is increasingly embracing Hadoop as the standard for large-scale analytics. Sqrrl, Inc. is now offering to help customers make more of the batch processing platform – and their machine-generated logs – through newly expanded integration with Splunk, Inc.’s Hunk …
Western Digital claims breakthrough in flash storage performance
Move over, NAND; there’s a new flash architecture in town. HGST Inc., the enterprise storage supplier that merged into hard drive kingpin Western Digital Corp. two years ago, has unveiled a proof-of-concept that it claims surpasses the current gold standard for solid-state …