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VMware considers buy out of parent company EMC
EMCs existential crisis just keeps getting more confusing. There’s a new twist in the battle for control of the storage giant’s federation, with reports suggesting that EMC is considering being bought out by its subsidiary VMware Inc., the virtualization software giant, on the recommendation of its activist investor Elliott Management Corp. According to Re/Code‘s unnamed ...
Databricks casts its net wider with Apache Spark platform update
Just two months after launching its Apache Spark-powered cloud platform, Databricks has announced a major update with a range of new feautures designed to help users facilitate Spark app development and control access to date. Databricks’ platform is a cloud-based Big Data processing engine based on Spark, offering a multi-user graphical interace and standard libraries ...
Report: Enterprises aren’t doing enough to mitigate API security threats
A new survey on API security has revealed the emergence of a new “digital divide”, as more companies embrace APIs without fully understanding how to mitigate the new threat vectors that might lead to critical data being exposed. API management firm Akana Inc. quizzed over 250 security practitioners for its first-ever Global State of API ...
GE’s Industrial Internet heads to the cloud
General Electric Co. (GE) has made no secret of its desire to become the ruler of what it calls the “Industrial Internet,” a concept that’s often described as the Internet of Things for big industry. But to do that, GE needs to refashion itself as one of the biggest players in IT, and no IT ...
Coverity claims open-source is “significantly” more vulnerable
Coverity, a subsidiary of Synopsys Inc., is controversially claiming that proprietary software is significantly more secure than open-source code. The latest Coverity scan open-source report (PDF) claims that static analysis defect density scans reveal how open-source software has outpaced proprietary software in terms of quality through 2013 and 2014. In addition, the 2014 report also ...
Bing delves into behavioral analytics with Interana
When considering how to do Big Data analytics, most IT people automatically think of Hadoop. But although the legendary elephant toy platform is by far and away the most popular choice, it’s far from being the only stat-crunching tool in the box. A good example of an alternative solution is Interana Corp.’s behavioral analytics platform, ...
Financial firms’ cloud strategies “rapidly maturing”
Far from being scared off by cloud security, financial firms are taking a “rapidly maturing approach,” with almost 100 percent of companies quizzed by CipherCloud, Inc. storing at least some personally identifiable information (PII) in the cloud. That’s according to the Q2 Global Cloud Security report from the enterprise security provider, which highlights emerging trends in the way ...
Media powerhouse Advance delves into Big Data with 1010 Data acquisition
Global media firm Advance Publications, Inc, which owns the Condé Nast publishing group and the cable company Bright House Networks LLC, among others, has raised a few eyebrows by delving into Big Data analytics with the acquisition of New York-based 1010data Inc. in a deal valued at $500 million. It’s an odd move for Advance, ...
Audi, BMW and Daimler snap up Nokia’s HERE Maps for $3B
Nokia Corp. has put an end to weeks of rumors surrounding the fate of its HERE Maps, announcing that it’s sold the service to a consortium of German car makers for $3 billion (€2.8 billion). The auto makers in question are Audi AG, BMW AG and Mercedes’ parent company Daimler AG, who all take an ...
Beware: Stealth ransomware posing as Windows 10 installer
Cybercriminals are taking advantage of the Windows 10 rollout to try and trick unsuspecting netizens into downloading a particularly nasty variant of ransomware, according to reports. First reports of the malware came from Cisco Systems Ltd.,’s security team, which noticed a gang of cybercriminals was stepping up its efforts to spread the CTB-Locker ransomware using ...