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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 ...
Meg Whitman doesn’t want to be CEO of Uber. Anyone else?
Uber Technologies Inc.’s search for a new chief executive shows no signs of ending after one of the top candidates for the position publicly denied any interest in joining the company. The candidate in question is Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. CEO Meg Whitman. On Thursday, she made it clear she’s not interested in joining the ...
GigaSpaces spins off cloud orchestration unit Cloudify
In-memory computing company GigaSpaces Technologies Inc. said Thursday it will spin off its Cloudify business unit into a new entity that’s focused on delivering cloud-based applications and network functions virtualization technology. GigaSpaces, based in New York, said it has been planning the spinoff since last year due to the growth of its enterprise cloud offerings and ...
Prodea Systems acquires Arrayent to deliver integrated IoT services platform
Cloud services company Prodea Systems Inc. has acquired Internet of Things platform provider Arrayent Inc. to deliver what it says will be the world’s first managed IoT services platform. Prodea, which is based in Richardson, Texas, said Tuesday that the newly created platform will be able to absorb data from an array of IoT sensors and devices, before ...
Silicon Valley is no longer home to the best developers, survey finds
If asked to guess which U.S. state is home to the best software developers, most people would probably assume the answer is California, home of Silicon Valley, the nation’s largest tech hub where many of the world’s largest high-tech corporations are based. But according to a new analysis from HackerRank, a website that offers tests ...