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Aaron Levie traps GE in a Box
Cloud storage and collaboration firm Box has just signed up a massive new customer in the form of GE, the Industrial Internet giant that wants to power the next generation of connected devices. The deal, which was reportedly negotiated over for two long years, was revealed by Box CEO Aaron Levie in a blog post. ...
Intel injects cash inside Server SAN startup Maxta
Maxta, the Server San software startup that lets servers multitask for storage, has raised $25 million in its second round of funding in six months. The series-B funding round was led by Intel and Tenaya Capital, and comes at a time when the software-defined and coverged storage trends are just about to take off. Previously, ...
Antivirus isn’t dead, it’s just been reborn
Symantec made a few headlines earlier this week with its rather odd pronouncement that antivirus was, to all intents and purposes, “dead”, and that security firms would need to look elsewhere to stay in business. The comments came from Symantec’s Brian Dye in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. This isn’t the first time ...
SAP’s merry-go-round continues with key exec dumped from the cloud
There’s a big shake-up going on over at SAP, with reports suggesting its executive in charge of its cloud business unit, Shawn Price, has been sacked. This comes just three days after SAP exec Vishal Sikka apparently stepped down for “personal reasons”, and just four months after Price replaced Robert Calderoni, who quit the post ...
VMware: Get your hands dirty + build your own VSAN nodes
When VMware first unveiled its VSAN, a programmable storage feature built directly into vSphere, it teamed up with a number of partners who were ready and willing to offer compatible servers to integrate as “ready nodes”. This included the likes of Dell, Cisco, Supermicro, Inspur and Fujitsu, who all promised to ready tricked-up servers with ...
EMC bets big on hybrid clouds swallowing the enterprise
IT companies offer their customers dozens of ways to either build their own hybrid or private clouds, and EMC has just joined the party with the launch of its new EMC Hybrid Cloud package. Announced at EMC World earlier this week, the solution is claimed to deliver rapid application provisioning and deployment alongside improved levels ...
Is this the end for Bitcoin in China?
A shadow has once again been cast over the Chinese Bitcoin industry, with the news that its biggest exchange, BTC China, has been prevented from taking cash deposits from the People’s Bank of China. The news came from the horses’ mouth via Twitter: “Dear users, Due to regulations, we have suspended CNY deposits from Bank ...
EMC’s Syncplicity adds missile-grade authentication & smarter sharing features
There’s a violent struggle going on right now in the business sync ‘n’ share market of late, with the likes of Microsoft and Dropbox using sheer muscle power – a whopping 1TB and unlimited storage respectively – to grab a bigger market share. Microsoft has also been stressing the importance of Office integration with its ...
Mozilla’s radical plan to save net neutrality
There’s been an interesting twist to the never-ending net neutrality debate. Mozilla, makers of the Firefox browser and all-round champion of Internet freedom, has proposed a novel way the Federal Communications Commission can legally protect net neutrality, giving activists and the Obama administration what they’ve wanted all along. In a nutshell, what Mozilla’s doing is ...
Symantec: Antivirus is dead – long live security-as-a-service!
Antivirus software maker and web security firm Symantec has hinted at plans to get out of its main line of business. Rather than fixing security problems, Symantec wants to stop them from happening in the first place, adding that the concept of antivirus software was on its last legs. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, ...