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Vidder Inc. has added endpoint trust assessment to its PrecisionAccess software-defined perimeter product, which provides access protection at the software application level. The company’s approach is based upon the Software-Defined Perimeter initiative that is being developed by the Cloud Security Alliance. SDP is essentially …
Big data firm Hortonworks revamps pricing to cover both on-premises and cloud
Hortonworks Inc. is kicking off its DataWorks Summit in San Jose, California, this week with the announcement of a new software support subscription that provides unified pricing to organizations as they move between on-premises and Amazon Web Services Inc.-based cloud deployments. Hortonworks …
In the Buckeye State, an innovative cybersecurity collaboration experiment takes root
Columbus, Ohio, doesn’t come immediately to mind as a center of high-tech excellence. But thanks to a thriving new experiment in corporate collaboration, the Buckeye State capital is now beginning to turn some heads in tech — in the increasingly challenging area …
Dell blames component shortages for slowing growth rate
Saying it is holding or increasing market share in all its core markets, Dell Technologies Inc. reported net revenue of $17.8 billion in its fiscal first quarter revenue, up 46 percent from a year ago. However, the growth rate was down from the …
Sumo Logic seeks to disrupt pricing for log analytics
Sumo Logic Inc., a well-funded log management and analytics startup, has introduced a new pricing scheme and expanded data ingestion capabilities to its core product, which provides an analytics layer that companies can use to manage applications. The company said these enhancements, announced …
HPE launches community to fuel technology, market development for ‘The Machine’
Seeking to build momentum behind the most ambitious project to emerge from its laboratories in a decade, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today announced the formation of a user group for technologists, developers and industry experts interested in programming for what it calls …
MapR pushes deeper into storage market with cloud-scale data store
In a crowded market for big-data platforms, vendors struggle to find differentiation points. Today’s announcement by MapR Technologies Inc. indicates that it has concluded that the data storage platform is one of them. That’s the apparent impetus behind MapR-XD, a cloud-scale data store that …
Netskope lands $100M in new funding for its cloud-native security platform
Netskope Inc. is set to break out of the cloud security pack with a huge $100 million late-stage funding round announced today. The oversubscribed Series E round brings the company’s total funding to $231.4 million, an amount that will comfortably see it …
Adaptive Insights adds self-service features and targets software CFOs
Corporate performance management software vendor Adaptive Insights Inc. has brushed up its Adaptive Suite in version 2017.2, adding self-service analytics, user-configurable time modeling and improved flexibility and scalability. The company is also rolling out its first vertical package, targeting financial executives at …
How to find the silver lining in the EU’s looming General Data Protection Regulation penalties
With less than a year remaining until the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation kicks in, the level of hyperventilation in the business world has reached epic proportions. An April study by Veritas reports that 86 percent of organizations worldwide are concerned that that …