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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …