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BlackBerry furthers IoT push with $1.4B acquisition of security firm Cylance
Continuing its pivot away from its traditional smartphone market and into cybersecurity, BlackBerry Ltd. announced its biggest acquisition ever this morning, picking up security firm Cylance Inc. for $1.4 billion in cash. Cylance, which focuses on manufacturing and “internet of things” applications, will operate as an independent business unit. But BlackBerry said it will quickly ...
IBM, ServiceNow team up to expedite customers’ multicloud migrations
IBM Corp. is stepping up its pitch to be the preferred multicloud manager for enterprise businesses. The computer and services giant today announced a partnership with workflow automation and service management software provider ServiceNow Inc. and enhancements to its Cloud Migration Factory. Like most IBM partnership announcements, few details were provided. IBM said only that ...
Alfresco brings its content/process management platform to Amazon Kubernetes and Glacier
Alfresco Software Inc. is bringing its open-source enterprise content management and business process management services platform to the Amazon Web Services Inc. Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes or EKS and adding support for Amazon Glacier archival storage in a new release announced today. The company’s Digital Business Platform can be used to create automated workflows involving ...
ClearSky raises $20M, partners with Equinix to expand its storage as a service
ClearSky Data Inc. said today it has raised $20 million in venture financing and signed a partnership with colocation provider Equinix Inc. that will expand its footprint across the U.S. and eventually internationally. ClearSky sells a storage-as-a-service platform that provides guaranteed performance and data protection across a global network by using colocated equipment and a proprietary ...
Red Hat tightens container integration with latest OpenShift release
Red Hat Inc. is upping its Kubernetes game with the release of Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14, the latest version of its infrastructure-as-a-service product. The new version announced early today, which is based upon the OpenStack “Rocky” community version, improves integration with OpenShift, Red Hat’s own version of Kubernetes, and features better support for bare-metal ...
Talend shares plunge 35% on weak guidance, plans to buy data prep company
Updated: Data integration software provider Talend SA slightly beat Wall Street earnings estimates for its fiscal third quarter on revenue that matched analysts’ forecasts, but the news wasn’t all good today. The company also issued fourth-quarter guidance that was slightly below consensus estimates and said its on-premises data transformation business is contracting faster than expected, ...
MapR targets big-data rivals’ merger with free migration assessment
MapR Technologies Inc. is betting that the impending merger of big-data rivals Cloudera Inc. and Hortonworks Inc. will mire those companies in so much organizational minutia that customers will be open to making a switch. MapR is the sole surviving independent member of the trio of well-funded startups that emerged from the early days of ...
Kubernetes Special Report
Special Report: Kubernetes orchestrates a mass movement to the cloud
Bloomberg L.P. may be best known for its news service and ubiquitous stock trader terminals, but more than a quarter of its 19,000 employees are software engineers and technologists who turn out thousands of custom applications each year to help Bloomberg customers understand and forecast the machinations of financial markets. Bloomberg runs more than 14,000 ...
Graph databases get a boost as market leader Neo4j raises $80M
Graph database maker Neo4j Inc. said today it has raised an $80 million late-stage funding round, doubling the company’s total venture capital investment to $160 million and making it the best-funded startup in its market. The company said it will use the funds to hike investment in its flagship platform to “support popular use cases, including ...
Nutanix takes its multicloud manager to the on-premises data center
In a nod to the popularity of hybrid cloud architectures, Nutanix Inc. is taking its Beam multicloud governance and management software into the data center. The San Jose, California-based company today announced that the service it debuted in May for Nutanix cloud instances will now be able to peer into customers’ on-premises Nutanix environments as well. ...