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Cloudreach expands migration assessment platform to handle multiple clouds
Cloudreach Ltd., a decade-old cloud consulting and managed service provider, is furthering its push into the software market with a new version of its Cloudamize cloud management software platform. The new version expands dependency assessment capabilities and extends cost optimization and management to multicloud environments. The software, which Cloudreach picked up with the acquisition of ...
HPE containerizes machine learning model development
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today is expanding its reach into artificial intelligence development with a software platform that supports the full lifecycle of machine learning model construction and deployment using the self-contained software environments called containers. HPE ML Ops provides for the rapid rollout of machine learning workloads across on-premises, public cloud and hybrid cloud environments. ...
Group says its blockchain-based encryption scheme makes passwords all but impossible to crack
The Tide Foundation, a nonprofit organization that’s building an open-source framework for protecting personally identifiable information, has developed a blockchain-based encryption scheme that it claims is vastly more difficult to crack than other methods. Its approach uses a technique called “splintering” in which encrypted username/password pairs are broken up into small pieces and scattered across ...
Ahead of joining VMware, Pivotal reports strong earnings growth
Pivotal Software Inc. is going out on a high note. In what may be its last earnings report as a public company, the maker of the Cloud Foundry cloud development platform reported a narrower quarterly loss on 17% revenue growth driven by a 38% rise in subscription revenue. Pivotal agreed to be acquired by sibling ...
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HPE earnings rise, but revenue slide continues for third straight quarter
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s stock rose as much as 8% in after-hours trading Tuesday after it reported third-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street estimates and raised its full-year forecast. However, investors might be getting ahead of themselves, as revenue fell 7% and the company offered little optimism that growth would resume anytime soon. Adjusted earnings ...
SPECIAL REPORT: COPING WITH MULTICLOUD
At VMworld, VMware announces a hybrid cloud product blitz for partners
VMware Inc. will kick off its annual VMworld conference in San Francisco today with a slew of announcements aimed at positioning itself as the company everyone wants to partner with for hybrid cloud management. In addition to new versions of its operations and automation suites for hybrid cloud, the company will deepen its integration with server ...
SPECIAL REPORT: COPING WITH MULTICLOUD
For better or worse, multiple clouds are here to stay
In information technology circles, it’s called “one throat to choke.” It’s a metaphor for chief information officers’ preference for concentrating most of their business with a single strategic supplier in each category of application and infrastructure. The approach has a lot of appeal to risk-averse IT organizations, including fewer points of failure, better customer service, ...
Remediant lands $15M to take privileged access management security mainstream
Remediant Inc., developer of a new breed of access control software called privileged access management, today announced that it has raised $15 million in a new funding round. The Series A investment led by Dell Technologies Capital and Forgepoint Capital Management LLC will go toward marketing and field operations, product engineering and channel development. Founded four ...
IronNet offers threat-sharing service free to small firms
IronNet Cybersecurity Inc. a five-year-old security intelligence company founded by a group of former national security officials and Beltway insiders, is making its principal collaboration platform available free to qualifying organizations. The company charges some enterprise customers a significant though undisclosed sum annually for the service, which is called IronDome. It enables participating organizations to anticipate ...
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The sun sets on the big-data era: HPE to acquire MapR’s assets
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Inc. said today it will acquire the assets of MapR Technologies Inc. for an undisclosed sum, ending a two-month drama that cast a harsh light on the struggles of once high-flying big-data companies. HPE said the deal, which was announced this morning, includes MapR’s technology, intellectual property and expertise in artificial intelligence and ...