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Enterprise news you gotta know for May 26, 2015 – Salesforce price tag was $70B
A daily summary of stories in the areas of Big Data, cloud computing and software-led infrastructure from some of the top news sources on the Web. Business News Biz Break: Salesforce wanted $70 billion from Microsoft, report says – San Jose Mercury News Microsoft was willing to fork over fifty-five billion dollars for what ...
Cyber adAPT says it can detect intruders already inside your network
As cybersecurity sentiment increasingly shifts from prevention to containment, another startup has raised venture capital for an enterprise-focused platform that applies analytics to threat detection. The Real-Time Network Threat Detection Platform appliance from Cyber adAPT, Inc. passively observes network traffic at line rate speeds up to 40Gb/sec and look for malicious activity – both malware and human-driven ...
Enterprise news you gotta know for 5/22/15 – McNealy’s back!
A daily summary of stories in the areas of Big Data, cloud computing and software-led infrastructure from some of the top news sources on the Web. Business News HP’s profit slips 21% as services business stumbles – Computerworld There aren’t many bright spots in Hewlett-Packard Co.’s quarterly earnings, as even stalwart product lines like ...
Enterprise headline roundup for May 21, 2015 – another healthcare hack
A daily summary of stories in the areas of Big Data, cloud computing and software-led infrastructure from some of the top news sources on the Web. Business News Health Insurer CareFirst Says It Was Hacked – Wall Street Journal The breach occurred nearly a year and affected about 1.1 million members. Attackers may have ...
Enterprise Headline Roundup for May 19, 2015 – OpenStack love
A daily summary of stories in the areas of Big Data, cloud computing and software-led infrastructure from some of the top news sources on the Web. Product News IBM Broadens Hybrid Cloud Portfolio With OpenStack Play – InformationWeek Big Blue aims to bridge the gap between born-on-the-cloud startups and legacy-laden enterprises. “IBM’s OpenStack Services allow ...
MapR boosts SQL with addition of Apache Drill to core Hadoop distribution
MapR Technologies, Inc. marked a milestone of sorts today with the announcement that it is shipping Apache Drill 1.0 in the MapR distribution of the Hadoop Big Data platform. The company has been shipping earlier versions of Drill, for which it has been the primary developer for the past three years, since last September, but ...
Enterprise Headline Roundup for May 19, 2015
A daily summary of stories in the areas of Big Data, cloud computing and software-led infrastructure from some of the top news sources on the Web. Business News Hightower Raises $13M Series B Round For Its Leasing Management Service – TechCrunch “This new round brings Hightower, Inc.’s total funding to $22 million, which makes it ...
Wikibon’s new Big Data analyst sees explosive changes coming
Wikibon’s newest analyst sees dramatic shifts happening in the way organizations are looking at data, and that will lead to major changes in platforms, skill requirements and the way business is done. George Gilbert joins Wikibon as lead Big Data and Analytics analyst after six years on GigaOm Research’s coverage team of those areas. With ...
Zebra doubles down on Android, launches first industrial app store
Hot on the heels of a blowout quarterly earnings report, Zebra Technologies Corp. announced the opening of an app store for its line of industrial mobile devices and bulked up its Android line with a high-end device featuring multi-carrier 4G LTE capabilities, extra-long battery life and the ability to withstand harsh drops and water immersion. ...
Confused about PaaS? Wikibon can help
More than 1,500 developers, operators and managers are gathering in Santa Clara, CA this morning for the two-day Cloud Foundry Summit, highlighting the popularity of the new breed of development platforms that are specific to the cloud. Pivotal Software, Inc.’s Cloud Foundry is just one of a diverse and growing lineup of so-called platform-as-a-service (PaaS) ...