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Cisco Meraki cloud engineering error leads to customer data loss
Cisco Systems Inc. has admitted to losing some of its customers’ Meraki Cloud data late last week following a configuration error. “On August 3rd, 2017, our engineering team made a configuration change that applied an erroneous policy to our North American object storage service and caused certain data uploaded prior to 11:20AM Pacific time on ...
Startup Rubrik emerges as major player in data center backup and recovery
Gartner Inc. is offering up its latest Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup and Recovery Software, charting some interesting movements for Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and Rubrik Inc. The latter company is probably the biggest winner in this year’s edition, coming from nowhere to emerge as one of two “visionaries” in Gartner’s box. The company ...
Accenture beefs up cloud services play with two more acquisitions
Technology consultancy Accenture Plc on Thursday announced it’s buying two more startups, bringing its total number of acquisitions this summer to seven. The company said it’s acquiring the marketing and sales consultancy Brand Learning Partners Ltd., in addition to finalizing a deal for Search Technologies Corp., which provides consulting and implementation services for data analytics ...
Primary Data lands $40M to fuel its chase for data management leadership
Primary Data Inc. has just picked up $40 million in funding to fuel its growth in data management. The company said $20 million came via a Series C funding round, while the other half came thanks to a new line of credit. The round was led by Pelion Venture Partners, with participation from Accel, Battery Ventures ...
Google’s cloud gets a boost as Forrester names it a leader in data analytics
Google Inc.’s efforts to establish itself as a major player in cloud computing received a small boost Wednesday when it was named by research firm Forrester Research Inc. as the undisputed leader in a part of the market Forrester calls “Insight Platform as a Service.” It should be noted that Insight PaaS is just a ...
Tableau’s stock rises as subscription sales rocket
Another solid quarter for Tableau Software Inc. lifted the company’s shares in after-hours trading Wednesday as it speeded up its transition to a subscription-based business model. The big data visualization company reported a profit of 10 cents a share before certain costs such as stock compensation. The second-quarter profit was well ahead of forecasts by Wall ...
Cohesity consolidates archive and backup data storage with Orion 5.0 release
Data consolidation provider Cohesity Inc. is updating its software-defined storage platform that combines big data storage with end-to-end data protection on infinitely scalable architecture. The new release, Cohesity Orion 5.0, is significant as it’s claimed to be the industry’s first platform that serves as both a data backup solution and a searchable archive for structured ...
Red Hat Enterprise Linux gets a refresh with new performance, security capabilities
Red Hat Inc. has made the next major update to its Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform generally available, sporting new features focused on boosting performance and security. The RHEL 7.4 release has been in beta since May. The new features include enhanced audit and forensic capabilities that are necessary for companies using the platform to ...
WANdisco links with Amazon cloud’s Snowball truck to enable use of data in transit
Data replication specialist WANdisco Inc. is integrating its Fusion product with Amazon Web Services’ Snowball and Snowmobile products that move huge amounts of data physically to Amazon cloud data centers, in a bid to ensure that transactional data can still be used and updated even when it’s literally in transit. Fusion is WANdisco’s main data replication ...
Email prankster tricks White House officials into replying
A British prankster is reported to have conned several White House staffers, including ex-communications director Anthony Scaramucci, into replying to his emails after posing as several high-ranking individuals in the Trump administration. The unnamed prankster, who uses the Twitter handle @SINON_REBOR, sent one email to Homeland Security Advisor Tom Bossert, purportedly from President Trump’s son-in-law ...