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Concerned about security, Commerce Department urges creation of IoT strategy
The United States government needs to formulate a national strategy for the Internet of Things to guide global standards and determine the best use of radio spectrum and other infrastructure assets. That’s the chief finding of a new report from the Commerce Department published Jan. 12. The report by Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration notes that ...
IBM announces all-flash storage arrays for cloud, machine learning jobs
IBM Corp. has updated its storage array line up with all-flash versions that offer increased capacities and support for cognitive and other demanding workloads. IBM announced the original DS8880 storage arrays last year, with a choice of three systems, each of which now has an all-flash variant. The company said in a release the new ...
The Trump effect: Political uncertainty trims Gartner’s 2017 IT spending forecast
Gartner Inc. is blaming political uncertainty for a rather modest forecast of 2.7 percent growth in global information technology spending this year. The research firm’s latest Worldwide IT Spending Forecast, which predicts spending of $3.46 trillion in 2017, says the growth will be driven by cloud infrastructure spending and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and ...
Arcadia Data brings visual analytics to Cloudera Enterprise
Arcadia Data Inc. is making it easier for users to extract business insights from Hadoop and other big data platforms in a new team-up Cloudera Inc. The company said Wednesday that it’s integrating its Arcadia Enterprise visual analytics software with Cloudera Enterprise to create what it calls a real-time, Hadoop-native analytics platform. The idea here is to simplify ...
Workday stock soars as it lands Wal-Mart in its biggest deal yet
Enterprise software company Workday Inc. saw its shares jump by almost 10 percent on Wednesday after it was revealed that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. had signed a subscription to use its human resources platform. Trading in Workday’s stock was briefly halted on the New York Stock Exchange pending the release of material news after it rose ...
Report: Microsoft Teams to surpass Slack within two years
A new survey on business chat apps from information technology network tools provider Spiceworks Inc. reckons the number of Microsoft Teams users will surpass that of Slack within just two years. Considering Teams has been available to Office 365 Enterprise customers only since November, that would be no mean feat. Spiceworks’ survey found that Microsoft’s Skype ...
Robocop startup Knightscope launches $20M crowdfunding campaign
Knightscope Inc., which builds security robots that are already out on patrol in malls and hospitals in the Silicon Valley area, is launching a crowdsourced “mini-IPO” in which it aims to raise $20 million in funding. The Mountain View, California-based company is using the Seedinvest platform to launch its campaign, after having previously raised $14.76M ...
Application container market to hit $2.7B by 2020, report says
The application container market is on the verge of taking off, with one analyst firm predicting it will grow to $2.7 billion by 2020. If that happens, it would see the market size more than quadruple in size from $762 million in 2016, representing a compound annual growth rate of 40 percent, according to 451 Research ...
Apache Software Foundation announces two more top-level open source projects
The Apache Software Foundation’s stable of open-source projects continues to grow, with the addition of two more top-level projects in the past 24 hours. They include a Google Inc.-backed unified programming model for batch and streaming big data processing and a new monitoring tool for big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark. Apache ...
Virtuozzo puts a lid on container security with new data encryption feature
Server virtualization firm Virtuozzo, which was spun out of German tech company Parallels IP Holdings GmbH last year, is beefing up data security on its software platform with the addition of a new disk encryption feature for containers. The company, which offers a infrastructure platform that lets users deploy containers, virtual machines, and software-defined storage from ...