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Survey finds growing confidence in public cloud security
The long-held perception that cloud computing is inherently less secure than on-premise computing is finally dissipating, but cybersecurity pros still have plenty of anxiety about the aspect of cloud security they can’t control: end-user behavior. A new survey of 2,200 security pros by Bitglass Inc., a provider of cloud access brokering services for use outside ...
What’s up with Bluemix? IBM cloud tech chief’s got the skinny
Angel Luis Diaz (@AngelLuisDiaz, right) is a busy man. In addition to running IBM’s cloud technology operations, he’s in charge of the company’s San Jose, CA lab and one of its leading evangelists for open-source software. He’s also in charge of development of Bluemix, the IBM platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that Technology Business Research recently ranked as ...
Alpine Data adds Python support, Jupyter Notebooks integration to Chorus analytics platform
Alpine Data Labs is continuing its efforts to bridge the gap between data scientists and the C-suite with release 6.0 of its Chorus analytics platform. Chorus is a data science and machine learning platform that combines people, datasets and collaborative workspaces. It’s intended to support projects that incorporate elements of data science and end-user programming ...
Datos IO says it’s cracked distributed data protection nut
Nearly nine months after launching out of stealth with $15.2 million in funding, Datos IO Inc. is announcing the fruits of two years of development on technology to protect data in the new era of distributed databases. RecoverX is being touted as the industry’s first scale-out data protection software for what some people are calling ...
HPE rollouts underline multi-cloud integration plans | #HPEDiscover
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is joining the parade of enterprise technology vendors trying to simplify customers’ move to hybrid cloud. After a tumultuous year in which the pre-split HP first declared its intention to become a major infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) vendor and then backed off that strategy, a rejuvenated HPE is going full bore toward hybrid ...
Atlassian lets users ask “what if?”
Collaborative software development vendor Atlassian Corp. PLC is adding what-if modeling to its Portfolio for JIRA portfolio management system and tightening integration between the portfolio manager and its flagship JIRA software tracking and project management system in a new release announced today. Version 2.0 of Portfolio enables managers to plan and forecast release dates and ...
SIOS rolls SQL Server support into VMware management suite
SIOS Technology Corp. is giving system administrators in big SQL Server shops reason to smile in release 3.7 of its SIOS iQ machine learning analytics software for managing VMware Inc. environments. SIOS iQ is an agentless machine learning analytics platform for IT operations information and issue resolution. The addition of SQL Server support comes through integration with ...
Helpshift takes in $23M to build out mobile support technology
Helpshift Inc. raised a $23 million series B funding round for its in-app customer service technology , bringing total capital raised to $36.2 million. Participants in the new round include Microsoft Ventures Inc., Salesforce Ventures, and all previously existing investors, including Intel Capital Corp., Nexus Venture Partners, True Ventures and Visionnaire Ventures. The company said it ...
#SparkSummit West 2016 preview: The power of 2.0
Spark Summit West kicks off in San Francisco today, and you can bet the buzz will be all about Spark 2.0. DataBricks Inc., the principal curator of Spark, was impeccable in its timing, announcing the successor to the current version 1.6 just three weeks ago after teasing it for three months. DataBricks may be looking ...
ServiceNow extends growing security arm with BrightPoint buy
Cloud workflow powerhouse ServiceNow Inc. is wasting no time in expanding its footprint in its newest market: computer security. Barely three months after announcing the expansion of its platform into security operations, the company said it has acquired BrightPoint Security Inc. for an undisclosed sum. BrightPoint provides threat intelligence by combining information from multiple external ...