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Darktrace bags $18M to expand security analytics reach
UK network security startup Darktrace has just raised $18 million from investors from Invoke Capital, Talis Capital and Hoxton Ventures, in a round that takes its valuation to some $80 million, according to the company. Darktrace, which has previously been backed by former Autonomy founder Mike Lynch’s Invoke Capital, says it will use the new ...
Microsoft updates Azure cloud & Windows 10 for the Internet of Things
Microsoft has just its biggest play yet to stay relevant in the growing Internet of Things (IoT) market, announcing a new highly customisable cloud-based service for its Azure platform. The new Microsoft Azure IoT Suite is set to be launched in preview mode later this year. The offering is meant to help organizations easily integrate ...
The Walking Dead? Flawed data shows over 6.5 million Americans are aged 112
People might be living longer, but not this long. Flawed data from the U.S. Social Security Administration shows that over 6.5 million American citizens have reached the ripe old age of 112. Of course, barely a handful of those people are really still alive, given the Gerontology Research Group claims there were only 61 people ...
U.S Military drops $1.6B VMware contract after protests
The Defence Information Security Agency (DISA) reversed a decision to award VMware Inc. with a $1.6 billion contract, following a protest by number of tech companies last February. The Pentagon’s decision to cancel its joint enterprise licensing agreement with VMware means the Government Accountability Office (GAO) was able to dismiss protests against the award made ...
Microsoft previews Office 2016 & Skype for Business
Microsoft rolled out a couple of new software previews this morning, including the first look at Office 2016 for Windows, and a technical preview of its Skype for Business client, which basically blends the enterprise features of Microsoft Lync with the world’s most popular VoIP program. The releases are designed to put the software in ...
Fujitsu offers up cool liquid answer to smartphone overheating
Japanese tech giant Fujitsu Ltd. has hit upon a novel way to cool down smartphones that it says is five times as effective as metal and graphite sheets. As most smartphone users will appreciate, one of the problems associated with ever-more powerful devices is that they tend to get extremely hot when they’re being used, ...
Apache Tajo’s Big Data warehouse comes to Hadoop
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has just announced the relatively unknown Apache Tajo open source data warehouse software is ready for commercial use, almost two years after it first became a top-level project, and five years after its development began. Tajo is an SQL-on-Hadoop platform that’s designed to help organizations extract more intelligence from their ...
HP targets white box market with “no-frills” Cloudline servers
Hewlett-Packard Co. is taking a lead from the likes of Facebook and Microsoft with a new line of low-cost Cloudline servers that embrace the concept of open hardware designs. HP’s cheap and cheerful “no-frills” servers are a radical departure from the proprietary tech in its high-end Proliant servers. They’re based on the specifications established by ...
IBM’s Rometty stays bullish on Big Blue’s “transformation”
IBM CEO Ginni Rometty has released her annual Chairman’s Letter to the company’s shareholders, telling them that last year was “a critical year of transformation” for the company, yet much work remains to be done. In the letter, Rometty noted the company’s disappointing financial results reflected this period of transition, but she said it was ...
China launches “Internet Plus” initiative to take over the Web
China has launched a new drive to help its local Internet companies gain more impetus in international markets, and it’s putting its money where its mouth is by funneling more government cash into its emerging tech industry, according to reports. The initiative, called “Internet Plus” was announced by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang at the country’s ...