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Intel unveils new SSDs for data centers, connected devices and PCs
A week after its buzzed-about customer conference in San Francisco, Intel Corp. is making headlines once again by launching six new SSDs for three different markets. The fastest of the new additions is the enterprise-oriented DCP3520, a 0.2U drive that can handle to 375,000 random reads and 26,000 random write operations per second while also providing ...
Report: SAP is buying Hadoop-as-a-service startup Altiscale for over $125M
It appears that more consolidation is on the way for the analytics ecosystem. An anonymous insider has told VentureBeat that SAP SA is in the final steps of closing a $125-million-plus agreement to acquire Altiscale Inc., a Palo Alto-based startup that provides managed data processing services. The outfit started out in 2012 with a hosted implementation of ...
IBM follows Amazon and Microsoft to South Korea
IBM has expanded its global cloud network once again by launching a new hosting facility in the South Korean city of Pangyo, which is located a short drive away from Seoul. The data center is part of a collaboration between the vendor and regional technology giant SK Holdings C&C Co. that aims to address the growing local demand ...
Shippable revamps its CI/CD platform to streamline DevOps workflows
Rolling out application updates is set to become much easier for Shippable Inc. users. The startup today launched a new iteration of its continuous deployment platform that promises to dramatically reduce the amount of effort involved in creating code release pipelines, particularly for large enterprise projects. The arguably biggest time-saver introduced in the release is the ...
Auth0 raises $15M to make building authentication functionality into apps a breeze
Most of the authentication providers out there cater to IT personnel seeking to better regulate how line-of-business users access third party services, but Auth0 Inc. is different. The Washington-based outfit is working to help companies improve the security of their own software, an effort that received a$15 million boost today from Trinity Ventures and three other backers. ...
Study: Most U.S. IT pros now make over $100K annually
Working in IT has never been more lucrative. According to the newest DevOps Salary Report from infrastructure automation giant Puppet Inc., some 58 percent of enterprise technology practitioners in the U.S. now earn over $100,000 annually. This figure represents a massive 11 percent increase over 2015 when less than half of the community counted itself ...
SecureAuth joins the fiercely competitive cloud SSO market
Now that its on-premise authentication platform has been deployed at over 1,000 organizations, SecureAuth Corp. is looking to replicate its success in the cloud. The vendor launched a managed incarnation of the offering this morning that promises to help workers interact with web applications more safely. SecureAuth Cloud Access supports about 8,000 software-as-a-service offerings and ...
SimpliVity intros a 22TB all-flash hyperconverged appliance
Hyperconverged infrastructure and flash storage, two of the most-buzzed about technologies in the data center today, are coming together. One of the vendors driving the trend is SimpliVity Corp., which today added a new model to its popular line of integrated appliances called the CN-5400-F that packs 14 speedy Intel S3610 SSDs into a 2U chassis. ...
Syncsort picks up UK mainframe outfit Cogito to unlock big iron data
Though analytics technology is advancing in leaps and bounds, many traditional organizations still rely on mainframes for their most important data processing workloads. Syncsort Inc. hopes to put itself in a better position to target this segment by acquiring Cogito Ltd., a British firm that develops software for freeing information locked in big iron deployments. The firm sells performance optimization tools ...
Google’s new IntelliJ plugin helps developers deploy cloud apps more easily
Google is coming up with new and increasingly creative ways to lure developers away from rivaling cloud providers. As part of its efforts, the company has launched a plugin for JetBrain s.r.o’s popular IntelliJ IDEA that provides the ability to push code to its hosted platform-as-a-service environment directly through the native interface. The offering appears ...