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Enterprise flash maker Pure Storage files for IPO
In the first of what could be a wave of initial public offerings following the biggest technology bubble in 15 years, flash-storage maker Pure Storage, Inc. filed to go public in a market that delivered questionable returns for other so-called “unicorns.” Pure, which last year raised $225 million on a valuation $3 billion, said it ...
HotLink unites cloud management under vCenter
With VMware, Inc.’s Vsphere owning more than half of the on-premise virtualization market, the people at HotLink Corp. have a simple proposition: Why not use VMware’s VCenter console to manage an entire hybrid cloud ecosystem? The company today is rolling out a cloud management platform that promises to unite management of major public and private ...
Users look for HP to fill gaps in its Big Data pipeline | #HPBigData2015
As Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Big Data Conference 2015 kicks off this week in Boston, customers will be looking for evidence that the hardware giant is evolving its strategy in software and can be a strategic supplier for Big Data and analytics initiatives. To do so, say Wikibon analysts, it needs to fill gaps in the platform ...
Fighting fire with fire: Anonymous security net targets enterprises
Paul Kurtz believes US enterprises have a fundamental disadvantage in fighting cyber attacks: The bad guys are cooperating with each other while the good guys work alone. Concerns about government regulation, bad publicity and intellectual property theft prevent organizations from telling anyone outside their four walls about security threats they face, said Kurtz (right), former ...
Virtual Instruments expands VM support in performance management platform
Virtual Instruments Corp. is further boosting its infrastructure performance management and application-tuning platform with the addition of support for Microsoft Hyper-V and IBM PowerVM virtual machines. Previously, the software had only supported VMware, Inc.’s vSphere. The firm also enhanced its analytics capabilities and said it will soon introduce a cloud option. The company also said it ...
Wikibon analysts see merit, peril in EMC re-assimilation of VMware
Could EMC cross up its critics and spin VMware, Inc. back in to the mother ship instead of spinning it out as activist investors have demanded? That’s the scenario being floated by Arik Hesseldahl, senior enterprise editor at Re/code in an article published today. Hesseldahl cites no sources with inside knowledge of EMC’s plans, but notes ...
IONU says it has a better idea about data encryption
IONU Security, Inc. (pronounced “eye on you”) thinks it has a better way to make data encryption viable in the enterprise while plugging one of the persistent holes in the ways in which most organizations implement encryption. The flaw in most current schemes is that data is typically decrypted once it arrives on a host ...
Considering DevOps? This new Puppet Labs report is for you
The manufacturing world embraced lean principles decades ago, so why has the concept struggled to find a foothold in software development? The latest State of DevOps Report from Puppet Labs, Inc. provides compelling evidence that traditional throw-it-over-the-wall approaches to programming make less and less since in the face of DevOps, a lean-like discipline that emphasizes ...
Identity crisis: Will CDO role make CIOs irrelevant? | #MITCDOIQ
The chief information officer (CIO) role seems to go through a crisis about once every decade, from the “career is over” one-liners of the 1990s to Nicholas Carr’s 2003 declaration that “IT Doesn’t Matter.” Its newest challenge may come from the emerging function of the chief data officer (CDO). This week’s MIT Chief Data Officer ...
Wikibon says Server SANs set for explosive growth
The Server SAN market is set for explosive growth that will see this new breed of software-led storage quickly overwhelm traditional spinning disk arrays within the next five years and make up 88 percent of the enterprise and hyper-scale storage markets by 2026, according to a new Wikibon report. Server SAN is built on commodity ...