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Dell Quest Releases Big Data Security Solutions
A recent survey conducted by Dell Software found that 52 percent of organizations saw their unstructured data volumes increase by at least 25 percent in the past year, but only 45 are taking the appropriate measures to secure their sensitive information. These figures reflect a business opportunity that Dell is eager to exploit. This morning, ...
IBM Edge Highlights: Software-led Storage, Cloud and More
IBM unveiled a host of new enterprise solutions and improvements to existing products at this week’s IBM Edge 2013 conference. Among the announcements are several additions to the company’s storage portfolio. Big Blue kicks things off by announcing the general availability of FlashSystem, a family of all-flash appliances built from the ground up to digest ...
Can’t Make it to E3? Check Out These Sites
The 2013 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) doesn’t officially start until tomorrow, but the big players are already showing off their new products and game titles. Those of you who are not roaming the show floor as we speak can tune in to the conference via one of these channels: Video Twitch – Xbox: A new ...
Big Data Review: PRISM, E-Commerce and iRadio
PRISM, the NSA’s hush-hush data gathering program, has kept political commentators and tech pundits very busy over the past few days. The gloomy revelation is still dominating headlines. On Wednesday, The Guardian published what appeared to be a copy of a fresh court order that mandates Verizon to hand over customer data to the NSA ...
Cloud Review: Bad Manners and Acquisitions
Last week IBM showed its competitors that it plays hardball. The firm announced a multi-billion deal that will extend its cloud business into Amazon’s turf, and later thwarted a lucrative contract that the CIA had awarded to the company. The news from IBM hit the wire shortly after Salesforce announced its multi-billion acquisition, and on ...
ServiceNow VP Discusses App Creation for Newbies
ServiceNow has positioned itself at the forefront of the abstraction tidal wave that’s sweeping through IT with the recent launch of App Creator, a new system that makes it much easier for users to extend their platform with custom functionality. Matt Schvimmer, the company’s vice president of product management, talked about the news and discussed ...
Nutanix Lands in Australia as a Part of Global Expansion Initiative
Nutanix, an emerging provider of modular cloud infrastructure solutions, has launched its first Australian office in Sydney earlier this week. The new outlet is the eighth international office that the San Jose-based company has opened in the past 12 months. Nutanix says that its next Asia Pacific destination is Melbourne, which it chose as the ...
IBM Pulls the Rug from Under AWS
A $600 million contract between the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Amazon has been derailed by IBM, which complained that the cloud provider has received favorable treatment from the spy agency. This week, the U.S. Government Accountability Office announced that it has accepted the company’s claims. Big Blue alleges that the CIA “failed to properly ...
OpenStack Startup Mirantis Receives $10M Boost from IT Leaders
The rapid adoption of OpenStack in the enterprise has not gone unnoticed by the movers and shakers of the IT industry. The big vendors are elbowing each other for every chance to grow their presence in the open-source community, and there is no shortage of opportunity. Thursday morning, OpenStack integration specialist Mirantis announced that it ...
Accenture Scores Former HP Labs Boss Prith Banerjee
Accenture revealed that it has hired IT superstar Prith Banerjee to head its research and development arm, which “looks at the future of enterprise IT and makes recommendations for how companies can take advantage of technology.” As the new managing director of Global Technology Research & Development for Accenture’s Technology Growth Platform, Banerjee will direct ...