Suzanne Kattau
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The encryption process behind Parallels’ new business app
Parallels, a hosting and cloud services enablement and cross-platform solutions provider, today introduced Parallels Access for Business which enables IT admins to centrally assign, manage and secure remote access to their users’ computers. Designated admins can create a business account, manage access to corporate computers, grant or revoke permissions, and manage users. Before Parallels Access, ...
Why OpenStack doesn’t need a vendor to lead it
The young-but-growing OpenStack ecosystem consists in part of vendors who seem content to work together forever as one big happy, code-sharing family. But the reality is, they’re all lined up at the proverbial starting line, secretly jockeying for position in a race they hope will ultimately prove lucrative. Which vendor will emerge the leader? More ...
Red Hat, NetApp collaborate on open hybrid cloud architecture | #OpenStackSummit
Aiming to fuel enterprise adoption of OpenStack, open-source solution provider Red Hat today announced a collaboration with storage and data management solution provider NetApp to deliver what the companies describe as a new “open hybrid cloud reference architecture.” Announced at OpenStack Summit 2014 taking place this week in Atlanta, the new architecture promises to help ...
How ServiceNow is expanding beyond IT help desk services | #Know14
People don’t know what they want until it’s shown to them, as the late Steve Jobs once said. This philosophy is the reason behind cloud-based IT automation vendor ServiceNow’s current expansion from providing IT help desk services to providing IT service management automation. Whether they know it yet or not, companies need to replace IT ...
Innovations in software-defined networking, network functions virtualization | #ONS2014
The Open Networking Summit is a conference that brings together the entire networking ecosystem each year to discuss advances in Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). The fourth annual Open Networking Summit was held March 3-5, 2014 at the Santa Clara Convention Center and Hyatt Regency in the heart of Silicon Valley. theCUBE ...
How IBM is reinventing business around cloud : Key buys + offloads
IBM is changing, reinventing business around the cloud. The coming together of industry trends such as cloud, mobile, social, and Big Data and analytics is helping to drive this change. IBM’s new cloud-oriented focus applies to IBM’s own business as well as its existing clients’ business. To reinvent itself as a cloud-oriented business, IBM has ...
Datameer 4.0 visualizes data quality in Hadoop
Datameer, maker of self-service analytics software for Hadoop, today pulled the curtains back on Datameer 4.0, the latest version of its namesake platform. Datameer 4.0 introduces the ability for data scientists and data analysts to examine results throughout all of the stages of the data collection and visualization process—a feature the company hails as an ...
Jaspersoft and MapR team up for business intelligence on Hadoop
Competition is heating up in the Hadoop ecosystem as the pure-play distributors move up the stack to address the expanded enterprise checklist for Big Data. With customers shifting their focus from the underlying technologies that make analytics possible to meeting business goals, core considerations such as availability and security have made way for more strategic ...
Wise.io bags $2.5M to democratize predictive analytics
As the very definition of IT broadened over the last few years, data has become too vast for humans to manage manually, let alone analyze and act upon in real time. Organizations are increasingly applying Machine Learning to address the expectation gaps that were born out of this mega trend. But, while most of the dirty ...
Hot on Amazon’s heels, VMware expands cloud platform with desktop-as-a-service offering
The cloud ecosystem is heading into a new phase of growth as the industry shifts its focus away from the lower layers of the stack to higher, value-added functionality. This turning point represents both an opportunity and a challenge for incumbent vendors such as VMware, which must find a way to match the pace of ...