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Unified storage provider Nexsan Inc. is to become a private company once more through a deal with Spear Point Capital Management that will see it spun out from parent company Imation Corp. Under the deal announced Tuesday, Imation Chief Executive Officer Bob Fernander …
Dataguise launches DgSecure data governance support for AWS
Big Data solutions firm Dataguise Inc. has announced that their DgSecure solution for global sensitive data governance now supports data discovery on Amazon Redshift and Amazon RDS, as well as Amazon Simple Storage Service. Support for Amazon products was announced at the …
Nutanix beats forecasts in first post-IPO quarter, but shares fall on outlook
Enterprise virtualization and storage firm Nutanix Inc. beat market forecasts with its first set of financials following its Sept. 30 initial public offering. For its first quarter of fiscal year 2017, Nutanix booked revenue of $166.8 million with a loss of 37 …
Report: Open source opens security products to hacking
A new report from software vulnerability management and open source security solutions company Flexera Software LLC has found that a significant number security products are included on a list of products with the most software vulnerabilities. The report, Flexera’s “Vulnerability Update1” covers …
Intel rearranges IoT division to create self-driving vehicle group
Intel Corp. has launched a major reorganization of its management structure to create for the first time a group within the company that is focused only on self-driving vehicles. The new group, known as the Automated Driving Group or simply ADG, will …
Indian bitcoin startup Unocoin launches mobile wallet for iOS and Android
Indian bitcoin startup Unocoin Technologies Private Limited has launched its first mobile bitcoin wallet for both iOS and Android. Developed by the company itself, the app allows consumers to buy, sell, send, receive and store bitcoin with a one-touch button. It allows …
Customers blackmailed following Liechtenstein bank hack
Customers of a bank in Liechtenstein are being blackmailed by hackers who are threatening to publish their account details or hand them over to financial authorities. Valartis Bank (Liechtenstein) AG account holders started receiving emails last week demanding that they send 10 …
Support rises for bitcoin software fork that would double transaction limits
Bitcoin is coming close to undergoing a soft fork, or a new direction of the underlying software, as an upgrade that boosts the network’s transaction capacity is gaining widespread support. Called Segregated Witness or simply SegWit for short, the fork will more …
San Francisco commuters get free Muni rides thanks to ransomware infection
San Francisco public transport passengers received a pleasant surprise over the weekend as the city’s Muni network offered free rides as a result of the ticketing network being hijacked by ransomware. A variant of the HDDCryptor malware hit 2,112 computers within the …
Uber rival Ola seeking new funding on reduced valuation of $3B to $4B
Uber Technologies Inc. rival Ola (ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd.) is seeking to raise new funding in a down round, according to a report published in India. According to The Economic Times, quoting “five people aware of the developments,” Ola is seeking to …