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Pivotal Spin-Off a “Brilliant” Move for EMC + VMware. Profits Ahead
Interlaced data center giants EMC and VMware have teamed up on a fresh initiative that’s boldly positioning them on innovation and monetization. Appropriately named Pivotal, the brand new collaboration is just one of several major updates for both EMC and VMware these past couple of weeks. Breaking down the market implications and outlining action items ...
50% of BYOD Programs Lost Sensitive Data
Allowing employees to bring their own mobile devices to work has a very positive effect on productivity, but it also introduces great complexity to corporate networks. This exposes organizations to many security threats that are often left unaddressed, according to the latest infographic from enterprise security software developer Ipswich. Ninety-five percent of organizations allow employee-owned ...
Can EMC’s New Pivot Project Function with So Much VMware Overlap?
EMC and VMware recently held a joint analyst meeting in New York to show off the Pivotal Initiative, a set of spun off assets that will become an independent company on April 1st. Wikibon analyst Stu Miniman was at the event this week, appearing on this morning’s NewsDesk segment to go over the details with ...
VMware vs. Amazon : Competing Over (and with) the Public Cloud on Multiple Fronts
VMware is expanding its business to new markets, and pulling out of others, in an attempt to gain a more solid foothold in the cutthroat cloud market. The rivalry against Amazon is getting increasingly heated in the enterprise space, each cloud provider pushing one initiative after another to claim the bulk of this bubbling opportunity ...
Egnyte Launch Combos Choice + Control : Integrate without Doing the Plumbing
Egnyte, a Silicon Valley-based file sharing specialist, announced a major update to its flagship offering this week. The company is touting a new feature that allows users of its EgnytePlus platform to easily integrate cloud services into their environments without having to worry about the plumbing. EgnytePlus is a data management framework that stores information in ...
Watson’s Journey to Becoming an Oncologist’s Best Friend
In his three part series, ServicesAngle editor Bert Latamore examines the transitions that IBM’s famous AI platform, Watson, underwent in the past two years. The synthetic Jeopardy! champion transformed from a bulky supercomputer into an artificial intelligence system that leverages powerful algorithms to diagnosis patients and save lives. Medical information is complicated, unstructured, and aplenty: ...
EMC + VMware: Turn Losing Assets into Golden Geese with Pivotal Spinoff
EMC and VMware invited industry analysts to New York this week in order to go over their reworked roadmap for the Pivotal Initiative, an upcoming joint venture between that two companies that was first announced in December last year. At the time of the announcement, a spokesperson said that Pivotal will be responsible for managing ...
EMC Does Right by XtremIO Buy : Analyst Calls It “Solid”
The datacenter is an ever-changing thing, striving for efficiency. One notable shift is now taking place in flash, where innovative startups like Fusion-io are at risk of losing their lead now that industry giants like EMC have validated flash with viable solutions of their own. Dubbed the Flash Wars, what do these developments mean for ...
Google’s Bevy of Personal Data Compromises Results in More “Awareness” Tools
This Tuesday Google settled a lawsuit that accused it of scooping data from unprotected WiFi networks as a part of its Street View mapping initiative, which was banned in Germany and a few other countries for fear that it would violate the privacy of citizens. The case was brought by 38 states after it became public ...
PaaS Boosts Developer Productivity, Infrastructure Utilization at Chase Bank
PaaS has taken another step towards establishing itself in the enterprise sector, where complex system deployments are often difficult to outsource. But recent improvements in PaaS technology has earned a big win with one of the finance industry’s biggest forces. Apprenda recently released a case study that outlines how over the course of two years, ...