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IBM launches ‘enterprise-ready’ blockchain service
IBM Corp. won’t leave much doubt this week about its enthusiasm for blockchain, the distributed ledger technology that threatens to disrupt a wide swath of industries. On Monday, as part of a raft of announcements at its InterConnect cloud show in Las Vegas, the company will announce what it says is the first commercial blockchain ...
SolarWinds updates tools to simplify multi-cloud complexity
SolarWinds Inc. is buffing up its hybrid information technology management portfolio with updates announced Wednesday to several flagship products as well as its Orion unified monitoring platform. The company said the new features will help IT organizations better pinpoint performance and availability issues in complex hybrid cloud environments by enabling multi-cloud visibility along with on-premises monitoring ...
Rainforest QA adds exploratory option to crowdsourced testing service
Rainforest QA Inc. is expanding its line of crowdsourced software testing services with an exploratory testing option that leverages an elite group of testers to dig up problems that are difficult to surface with prepared test scripts. The company is one of a growing cadre of software testing firms that leverage the collective brain power of ...
Unitrends builds ransomware detection and recovery into backup software
Unitrends Inc., a maker of enterprise backup and continuity products, is building ransomware detection into its Recovery Series of physical backup appliances and Unitrends Backup Software. The new release leverages the always-on features of the products to spot anomalies and keep businesses running while ransomware is removed. Makers of backup software so far have not participated ...
DataStax revs up its enterprise-focused Cassandra database
DataStax Inc., which sells an enterprise version of the Apache Cassandra NoSQL database, today said it has tripled the speed of operational analytics compared with an open-source combination of Cassandra and Apache Spark in the newest version of its DataStax Enterprise product. The company, which has raised $190 million in venture financing, touts its enterprise ...
CloudVelox loops processes into cloud migration service
Cloud automation software provider CloudVelox Inc. today is expanding its automation and orchestration capabilities with new features that support customer processes as well as technology. The company’s One Hybrid Cloud software enables enterprises to map their existing network environments to a new or preconfigured network design on an Amazon Web Services cloud, cutting migrations by weeks ...
Pentaho pitches its integration platform as a machine learning aid
Pentaho Corp. is broadening the scope of its orchestration capabilities to include machine learning, saying its toolset can help teams of data scientists, engineers and analysts to train, tune, test and deploy predictive models in a fraction of the time typically required. Pentaho said its combined data integration and analytics platform enables predictive models to ...
MapR courts IoT developers with mini version of its big data platform
With the Internet of Things generating anticipation about a new model of distributed computing, MapR Technologies Inc. is hoping to get a jump on its big-data rivals with a version of its Converged Data Platform built specifically for processing at the network edges. MapR Edge, which is being announced today at Strata + Hadoop World, ...
VMware upgrades endpoint management tools for 20 percent less
VMware Inc. is rolling out a broad set of enhancements today to its Workspace ONE access management and AirWatch endpoint management toolsets and cutting Workspace ONE prices in the process. Workspace ONE gives information technology organizations the ability to manage any application on any device by integrating identity, application and enterprise mobility management both on-premises and ...
Intel places massive autonomous vehicle bet with $15.3B Mobileye purchase
Intel Corp. is placing a major bet that it can become the leading supplier of technology to power self-driving cars, striking a deal early today to buy Mobileye NV for about $15.3 billion. Mobileye makes chips that power the camera systems behind automated and semi-automated driving systems. Most notably, its technology is used by Tesla Inc. ...
