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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 ...
Blockchain adoption on the rise but obstacles remain, survey finds
Blockchain is gaining steady traction in the enterprise as banking and financial firms look to leverage the technology, but obstacles such as interoperability and the disruption it causes to business practices continue to get in the way. That’s according to a new survey from Juniper Research of almost 400 executives at organizations with greater than 20,000 employees. ...
Facebook buys AI startup Ozlo to improve its flawed virtual assistant M
Facebook Inc. has gotten its wallet out to make up for its shortcomings in artificial intelligence, acquiring a startup called Ozlo Inc. to help improve its Messenger platform’s virtual assistant M. Ozlo could be just what the doctor ordered as far as M is concerned. Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg had originally planned for the ...
Red Hat acquires data cleaning specialist Permabit’s technology & assets
Red Hat Inc. is bolstering its storage product portfolio with the acquisition of Permabit Technology Corp.’s technology assets, the enterprise Linux provider revealed Monday. The agreement will also see 16 of Permabit’s employees join Red Hat. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded back in 2000 with a total of $12 million in venture ...
Cato Networks beefs up its platform with new intrusion detection features
Network traffic management startup Cato Networks Ltd. is beefing up its platform security with the launch a new Intrusion Prevention System designed to spot advanced threats as soon as they appear. The IPS offering integrates with the Cato Cloud secure software-defined wide area network service, which enables centrally controlled communications management from data centers, branch ...
VMware scales up flagship vSphere platform in new update
Virtualization giant VMware Inc. has made a new update to its vSphere 6.5 platform generally available. VSphere is the company’s flagship platform for implementing and managing virtual machine infrastructure on a large scale, allowing companies to run multiple operating systems on the same hardware. The new update, called “vSphere 6.5 Update 1,” comes with improvements ...
Salesforce adds new customization tools to its Service Cloud
Salesforce.com Inc. on Thursday updated its Service Cloud with new capabilities that make it easier for users to customize and extend the platform across their organizations and implement personalized customer service campaigns. Salesforce’s Service Cloud is a customer relationship management platform that allows users to automate service processes, streamline workflows and find key articles, topics ...