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IBM is betting on a growing demand for hybrid clouds in the enterprise with its acquisition of Blue Box Group, which specializes in offering OpenStack open-source cloud hosting services. According to IBM, the marriage will help the company to speed up private …
Niara Inc. staves off cyberattacks with new Security Intelligence Solution
Cyber attacks are becoming increasingly more sophisticated and covert, which means intruders can remain undetected for weeks and even months at a time. Now, cyber security startup Niara Inc. has emerged from stealth with a Security Intelligence Solution to combat these kinds …
MongoDB zeroes in on the enterprise with new connector, security & GUI upgrades
MongoDB Inc., the company that’s trying to commercialize the MongoDB database, yesterday revealed the developer edition of its software has been downloaded more than 10 million times. What’s more, over 300,000 people have taken education classes in MongoDB, and the company boasts …
Couchbase hits back at MongoDB: “You’re not credible!”
Couchbase Inc., has come out with guns blazing in response to recent research that claims rival MongoDB is streets ahead of its competitors in terms of scalability. The company has revealed its own independent benchmark test results, which show that contrary to …
Avinash Lakshman’s Hedvig Inc. scores $18M Series B to push SDS
Hedvig Inc., the software-defined storage (SDS) startup, that burst out of stealth with $12.5 million in funding just two months ago, has secured an additional $18 million in a Series B round that brings its total funding to $30.5 million. The startup …
MongoDB claims superior scalability over Cassandra & Couchbase
MongoDB Inc. believes it’s set to become the “default” NoSQL database in the enterprises now that its performance is at the same level as its wide variety of features, the company’s president claimed yesterday. The MongoDB database outperforms rival NoSQL software by …
Salesforce gets a digital assistant with Tempo acquisition
Salesforce.com, Inc. has acquired Tempo, maker of the smart, artificial intelligence-powered calendar app of the same name, for an undisclosed amount. The deal means that Tempo will no longer be available to new users, and the software will be discontinued for existing …
The Internet of Things: A solution looking for a problem?
The Internet of Things (IoT) is being wildly overhyped, and developers would be better off looking at it as the “Internet of Sensors” if they want to get ahead. “Companies that embrace the IoS and not the IoT will be the winners …
Faulty software install led to Airbus A400M plane crash
Airbus SAS has admitted that a software problem caused its A400M transport plane to crash in an accident that killed four people last month. Germany’s Handelsblatt newspaper reports the software in question was installed incorrectly, and that caused the A400M’s engines to …
Microsoft to release Windows 10 on July 29
Just hours after the launch date for Windows 10 was supposedly ‘leaked’, Microsoft has gone and confirmed that Windows 10 will be available globally on July 29. Users of Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 will all be able to download the new …