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Elasticsearch Global BV is continuing its quest to build a business based upon open-source software with a bundle of products anchored by its Elasticsearch search engine and targeted at big data applications. Elastic Stack 5.0 bands together a suite of products that were previously …
IBM offers Watson certification
Having defined a vision it calls “cognitive computing,” IBM Corp. is seeking to put some structure around it with a certification program for developers who use the artificial intelligence platform. IBM says its Watson Application Developer Certification is intended to “help developers …
Hybrid storage unicorn Infinidat embraces compression, iSCSI
Infinidat Inc., which raised $150 million last year to build a hybrid storage array, is today announcing version 3.0 of its InfiniBox storage system, featuring improved scalability, inline data compression, integrated performance analytics and full support for the iSCSI storage transmission protocol. …
Tibco releases IoT integration toolkit to open source
Integration software vendor Tibco Sofware Inc. is getting into the Internet of Things business with an integration engine designed for edge devices that it’s releasing today under an open source license. Tibco claims Project Flogo’s runtime footprint is 20 times smaller than …
MariaDB beefs up MaxScale database proxy for the enterprise
Open-source database vendor MariaDB Corp. is strengthening its bid to win enterprise customers with a series of enhancement to its MaxScale database proxy that boost availability and security while improving support for streaming data. A database proxy brokers the connection between the client …
UK-based hyper-convergence startup bets on ARM processors
Cambridge, U.K.-based startup Kaleao Ltd. is entering the hyper-converged systems market today with a platform based on the ARM chip architecture that it claims can achieve unparalleled scalability and performance at a fraction of the cost of competing systems. The KMAX platform …
Promapp’s process manager now handles variations from the script
Auckland, NZ-based process management vendor Promapp Solutions Ltd. is adding new features to its Process Variant Management (PVM) software to give companies the ability to control variations in automated processes. Promapp, which also has offices in San Francisco, Sydney, Melbourne and London, …
Survey says data leakage by insiders is a growing threat
One in three organizations has experienced an insider cyber attack in the last year, and 74 percent of security professionals say they feel vulnerable to insider threats. Fifty-six percent think insider leaks have become more frequent over the past year. Those are …
Researchers want your opinions for annual cloud adoption survey
How is your use of cloud computing platforms changing? Which IT functions are migrating most rapidly to the cloud and which are staying put? How much data do you store in the cloud today and how much will you store there two …
Mastercard gives e-commerce developers an API playground
The application program interface (API) economy continues to surge the Mastercard Inc.’s introduction of a new developers platform that provides a single gateway for commerce partners to access a range of APIs in areas such as payments, data and security. Mastercard also announced a …