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Weekly security review: hackers take jab at top services, NSA cracks iOS
Skype has once again found itself on the front lines of cybersecurity this week after the notorious Syrian Electronic Army hacked into its social media profiles and published a tweet discouraging people from using Microsoft-owned services. The instant messaging giant quickly regained control of the accounts and released a statement saying that no other systems ...
Zerto unveils hardened disaster recovery platform for cloud providers
Virtualization has taken hold in the worldwide server market, but there’s still plenty of room for growth, which is what disaster recovery specialist Zerto is banking on. The five-year-old firm is rolling out a new edition of its flagship Zerto Virtual Replication (ZVR) platform that is simpler and more scalable to meet the requirements of ...
Sony reportedly considering making Windows Phone devices
Cornered by Samsung in the Android ecosystem, Sony may attempt to diversify its mobile lineup through a partnership with Microsoft, insiders told TheInformation this week. The tipsters said that the two rivals are in talks to launch a Windows Phone device as soon as mid-2014, a narrow time frame that indicates the prototype designs are ...
HP to fire 5,000 more workers in 2014
Unlike Michael Dell, who last year succeeded in wresting control of his namesake firm from shareholders, Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman still has to perform the delicate balancing act between executing her long-term transformation strategy and satisfying Wall Street’s fixation on short-term results. And as always, the employees are caught right in the middle. Citing “market ...
Clearwater automates reporting for insurers
Big Data is proving to be a key asset across all vertical markets, with the financial sector in particular emerging as a hotbed of analytics growth. But as unstructured information piles up, practitioners come to realize that extracting meaningful patterns and relations is only one of the challenges to gaining a competitive advantage. The resulting ...
Avigilon shells out $32M for video analytics firm
Accounting for more than 50 percent of all internet traffic, video is among the main drivers behind the rapid growth of unstructured information. But while technologies for processing social media interactions and machine logs have garnered a tremendous amount of hype in the enterprise, video analytics is only now entering the mainstream. At present, this ...
Cloud industry starts 2014 off on the right foot
The cloud is poised for rapid growth in the enterprise, with more and more CIOs embracing hybrid models to keep pace with the growing number of devices and applications in the Internet of Things. John McAdam, the president and CEO of F5 Networks, expects this trend to swing into high gear in 2014 across both ...
HP targets EMEA customers with the POD 20ce | #HPDiscover
Overwhelmed with the amount unstructured information coming in from outside the firewall, CIOs are scurrying to find the talent and technology solutions they need to effectively tap into their growing troves of data. Like most of its peers, tech giant Hewlett-Packard is trying to capitalize on this trend with a multi-pronged product strategy spanning the ...
Stealth startup Pushd secures more funding for mysterious product
Pushd, a San Francisco-based stealth startup with rock star social networking talent, has bagged another $1 million from anonymous investors last week, an SEC filing picked up by VentureBeat reveals. The funding brings the company’s total capital raised to $2.35 million. Established in 2012, Pushd is led by Abdur Chowdhury, who made a name for ...
HP’s David Scott on the different flavors of enterprise storage | #HPDiscover
As senior vice president and general manager of HP Storage, David Scott is at the forefront of industry change, with a finger firmly on the pulse of enterprise demand. In his latest appearance on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE, the executive went in-depth on the storage trends he will be focusing on in 2014 and beyond with hosts ...