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Prey’s device recovery software gets improved enterprise features
Prey Inc., maker of a freemium software suite for tracking and monitoring mobile devices to prevent theft, announced a new version of its enterprise offering with improved anti-theft and multi-device management capabilities. The improved geofencing and file retrieval capabilities help secure devices before they can be lost or stolen. Advanced search, labeling and large-scale management ...
SAP raises outlook on strong growth in cloud, business software sales
Strong sales of cloud services and even stronger sales of a next-generation business software suite lifted German software giant SAP SE’s second-quarter earnings released early this morning. “We have never been better positioned,” SAP Chief Executive Bill McDermott (pictured) said on this morning’s conference call, and if that’s usually a boilerplate quote, the enterprise resource ...
Workato raises $10M to simplify application integration
Self-service data integration vendor Workato Inc. has raised $10 million in early-stage financing and released a major update to its Workato Turing platform. The new Series A funding round, announced Tuesday, was led by Storm Ventures LLC with additional investment from Salesforce Ventures and Workday Ventures and brings the company’s total funding to $16 million. The initial investment ...
Open Container Initiative releases first fruits of its standard-building labors
More than two years in the making – a blink of an eye in standards-setting time – the Open Container Initiative version 1.0 is ready. The standard covers runtime and image specifications for containers, which define container lifecycles and image formats, respectively. Those are considered to be the most important elements needed to ensure container consistency ...
Oracle aims to one-up Microsoft with expanded Cloud at Customer service
Oracle Corp. is wasting no time returning fire at Microsoft Corp.’s announcement last week of the availability of its Azure Stack on-premises cloud offering. The database and business software giant today is expanding the breadth of services it will deliver via its similar Cloud at Customer service to include its full line of platform as a ...
Dremio tackles self-service analytics with Apache Arrow-based data abstraction engine
After two years in stealth mode, Dremio Corp. is entering the red-hot self-service data analytics market today with an open-source platform based on the Apache Arrow distributed query engine. Dremio said it eliminates the need for cumbersome tasks and technologies such as extract/transform/load procedures, data warehouses, multi-dimensional cubes and aggregation tables, providing ease of use without ...
How machine learning will spark a revolution in insurance
Siddhartha Dalal got his introduction to probabilistic analysis in the wake of the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Dalal’s research on behalf of the National Academy of Sciences found that NASA’s estimates of a 0.5 percent risk of the o-ring gasket failure that caused the explosion was dramatically off-target. At the 31-degree Fahrenheit air temperature ...
Startup Edgewise Networks takes security to the application level
Edgewise Networks has emerged from stealth mode with an approach to network security that is says fixes the biggest problem in firewalls: their reliance on IP addresses, the basic identifier for computing devices. Edgewise’s approach instead works at the application layer, allowing only trusted applications to communicate over approved network paths. The company said its ...
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Chief data officers bust out of the shadows onto the corporate front lines
Chief data officers are rapidly moving out of the shadows of back-office data quality and governance tasks and onto the front lines of corporate enterprise computing strategy. That became more obvious Thursday with the release of new Gartner Inc. research as well as stories shared by CDOs at the annual MIT Chief Data Officer and Information ...
Microsoft says its Azure Stack on-premises cloud is finally ready to ship
More than two years after it was announced, Microsoft Corp.’s Azure Stack is ready to ship. Microsoft has called the on-premises version of its cloud stack its secret weapon against Amazon Web Services Inc. because it leverages Microsoft’s legacy data center customer base in a distinctive way. Azure Stack is essentially Microsoft’s cloud in a ...