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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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
Azul launches “health check” for Apache Cassandra deployments
Azul Systems, Inc., has just released a new tool to help enterprises optimize their Apache Cassandra deployments on the fly. Azul is a developer of runtime platforms for executing Java-based applications, and Cassandra HealthCheck (Cassandra HC) has been designed to help eliminate …
Wikibon CTO urges caution over 3D XPoint memory tech
Intel Corp. and Micron Technology Inc., set the IT world abuzz this week when they unveiled their new 3D XPoint memory tech that offers up to 1,000 times the performance and endurance of regular NAND flash. The companies are touting 3D XPoint as …
ElasticHosts launches Spring.io, a pay-as-you-go cloud container service
Cloud hosting provider ElasticHosts Ltd. has lifted the lid off of Springs.io, a container-based cloud infrastructure service that offers “elastic capacity scaling” with pay-per-use billing. The company claims the service is priced lower than the equivalent virtualization-based cloud services offered by companies …
Google Glass 2.0: Back to work in the enterprise?
It’s probably unfair to say that Google Glass flopped as a consumer product, but for a number of reasons Google deemed that its wearable technology wasn’t quite ready for the masses. Even so, Google Glass did go down a whole lot better …
Cloudera partners with EMC to offer “Cloudera-on-Isilon” solution
Hadoop heavyweight Cloudera Inc. has just signed on with EMC Corp.’s Technology Connect partner program, which means that EMC customers can now license Cloudera Enterprise directly from the storage giant and its reseller partners. The move means that EMC customers now have …
How many “cloud giants” are there anyway?
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, IBM and Google are blazing a trail as the “Big Four” leaders in cloud infrastructure services, seizing control of over half the market, according to a new report from Synergy Research Group. The research outfit compiled second …