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Check Point takes new approach to zero-day detection
Asserting that sandbox security is both inconvenient and unreliable, Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. has come out with a variation that it claims provides vastly improve performance by detecting threats at the CPU level. The SandBlast platform, which is available both on premise and as a service, identifies malware at the exploit phase before common ...
Brocade skips complexity to unify enterprise apps for mobile users
Many organizations are facing a crushing backlog of development request for mobile applications, driven by the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) movement and the competitive pressure to make field sales and service people more efficient. The problem is that many vendors’ mobile apps aren’t all that good. And even the ones that are don’t integrate seamlessly with apps ...
HP’s new security technology looks for malware phoning home
Reflecting the growing realization that traditional signature-based approaches to malware detection aren’t working any more, Hewlett-Packard Co. today is rolling out an analytics-based tool that identifies infected hosts by inspecting an enterprise’s Domain Name System (DNS) traffic. The HP DNS Malware Analytics (DMA) service inspects all of an organization’s DNS records and applies a Big ...
Birst’s ‘Networked BI’ lets users play but keeps data safe
Fast-growing analytics startup Birst, Inc. is announcing a new way for organizations to democratize business intelligence, enabling individual users to customize their views and applications without compromising the central data store. A concept the company calls “Networked BI” is designed to “virtualize the entire BI ecosystem, transforming every aspect of an organization’s approach to analytics,” ...
Where some see cloud, Equinix sees “interconnections”
Today’s cloud infrastructure services work pretty much the same way that corporate data centers have worked since the 1960s: Large, centralized server farms deliver information over far-flung networks. But Equinix, Inc. believes it’s come up with a better way to support the exploding amount of data and processing coming from the cloud, while delivering faster ...
ClearSky seeks to erase lines between cloud and local storage
Network latency and unpredictable performance have made cloud storage mostly the domain of cloud-native applications or file stores, but ClearSky Data, Inc. wants to make the cloud as fast and manageable as a local disk array. The company today is launching a global storage network that combines co-located equipment, private networks and proprietary software to ...
Dell goes after midsize companies with hyper-scale needs
Hoping to replicate the success of its Data Center Solutions division, which sells hardware and software to the biggest hyper-scale customers, Dell, Inc. has created the Datacenter Scalable Solutions (DSS) group to go after second-tier companies whose computing demands aren’t quite as big, but which are rapidly growing their IT investments in areas like web ...
Maritz relinquishes CEO role as Pivotal run rate tops $100M
Paul Maritz (right), who is best known as one of the top executives at Microsoft during the peak of its market dominance, but who has more recently been a critical figure in the development of the EMC Federation, said he will step down as CEO of Pivotal Software, Inc. but remain on Pivotal’s board of ...
VMware exec counters critics, says vCloud Air growing rapidly
VMware, Inc. has said it wants to be a major provider of public cloud services, but its execution strategy around its vCloud Air offering has drawn a fair amount of criticism. Two years into deployment, revenues from hybrid cloud and SaaS offerings (of which vCloud Air is a key component) were better than six percent of VMware’s ...
Ask a Wikibon analyst: Why should I care about PaaS?
If you’re wondering what platform-as-a-service (PaaS) is and whether you should worry about it, Brian Gracely says you’re already behind the curve. Gracely, who began contributing to the Wikibon community last month after a long and successful career at multiple vendors and cloud providers, thinks software development will need to become a core competency for ...