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Centrify Brings Centralized MDM to Samsung Phones with Knox Integration
Delivering on a partnership that was first announced in February this year, identity services provider Centrify has integrated its cloud-based mobile device management platform with Samsung Knox. The manufacturer’s end-point security solution utilizes containerization to separate corporate data from personal data, making it practically impossible for users (and nosy admins) to gain unauthorized access to ...
Fresh Out of Stealth, Gray Matter Eyeing Big Data Services
Lost in the hype but not overlooked by CIOs, professional services account for 44 percent of the Big Data market, which is expected to more than quadruple from $11.59 billion in 2012 to over $47 billion in 2017. A newly launched startup called Gray Matter is looking to carve out a slice of this segment ...
GE Augments Industrial Internet with New Solutions, Partners
For GE, the path to the Industrial Internet goes through the predictive analytics market, layering Services atop the complex machines powering the movement. At this week’s Minds+Machines summit in Chicago, the conglomerate bolstered its networked machinery management system with 14 new predictive solutions, bringing the total number of technologies available on the platform to 24. ...
FalconStor Improves Cloud Support with Software Refresh
Disk-based data protection specialist FalconStor has unveiled the latest versions of its Continuous Data Protector backup solution and Network Storage Server business continuity platform. Featuring the company’s new RecoverTrac 2.7 DR automation function, the solutions simplify data migration to and from the cloud while providing tighter integration with VMware environments. In addition to supporting VMware ...
BlackBerry on the Lookout for New Bidders
The BlackBerry saga has taken on a new twist with reports that the struggling phone maker is soliciting bids from more potential buyers. Insiders claim that the company is asking for “preliminary expressions of interest” from several major technology vendors despite signing a letter of intent to go private under FairFax Financial just a few ...
GE: Enterprises Can Save Billions with Industrial Internet, Intelligent Data
A new GE report entitled “The Industrial Internet@Work” argues that organizations can save billions of dollars annually by eliminating deficiencies in how they gather, store and share machine data. Co-authors Marco Annunziata and Peter Evans, the company’s chief economist and director of global strategy and analytics, respectively, say that making information more consumable in “just ...
Tintri Expands Virtual Storage Lineup with New Appliances, Software
Scalability has long been a pain point for CIOs, forcing them to make unnecessarily large investments in data center equipment and software licenses to accommodate their organizations’ growth. Tintri, a Mountain View-based provider of hybrid storage solutions, is addressing this issue with new appliances for virtualized environments. Geared toward midsize and large enterprises, the Tintri ...
IBM Refreshes Infrastructure Lineup as Part of Hybrid Cloud Initiative
IBM is augmenting its already massive infrastructure portfolio in a move to capture the hybrid cloud market. Driven in large part by the increased adoption of open systems in the enterprise, this segment is witnessing double digit growth that is only expected to accelerate as the technology trickles down to small and midsize businesses. Underscoring ...
Splunk.conf Recap: Splunk to Become the Google of Big Data
Wrapping up last week’s Splunk.conf 2013, SiliconAngle founder John Furrier and Wikibon’s Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly gathered in theCUBE to discuss how the machine data analytics firm is disrupting enterprise IT. Dave remarks that Splunk’s recently unveiled cloud offering and Hunk, its Hadoop-based querying and visualization tool, are highly strategic products that “bump into ...
On the Heels of Acquisition, BlackBerry Unveils Enterprise Cloud Service
BlackBerry, the second dying mobile giant to have been acquired in recent weeks, is under renewed pressure to monetize its patents and multi-billion dollar service business. To this end, the company announced a new cloud-based enterprise mobility management solution that aims to help organizations drive value in the BYOD era. Unveiled at this week’s Gartner ...