Tavis J. Hampton
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Pivotal team-up with Hortonworks seen as no threat to HP’s investment
Pivotal Software, Inc. said Monday that it will collaborate with Hortonworks, Inc. on the open source Apache Ambari project. Hortonworks currently uses Ambari for Hadoop monitoring and management. Other contributors to Apache Ambari include Red Hat Inc. and IBM. Pivotal, which is part of EMC’s federation around PaaS, Big Data analytics and application development., plans ...
ThetaRay raises $10M to expand data-driven threat detection
ThetaRay announced today that it has completed its Series B funding round, having raised $10 million from investors. The Israeli company, which offers on-premise and cloud Hyper-dimensional Big Data Analytics solutions, plans to use the funding to expand its operations into the U.S. Focusing on security and threat detection, the people at ThetaRay say they ...
Tucci expected to fight activist EMC investor pushing for VMware spin off
A hedge fund with more than $1 billion invested in EMC plans to convince the company to spin off its subsidiary, VMware, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. Elliot Management Corporation is the fifth-largest shareholder, owning approximately two percent of EMC, and people running the hedge fund believe EMC will significantly increase its stock value ...
Contradictory ruling in Gmail case leaves questions of privacy
A judge in a United States District Court ruled that federal law enforcement agencies are allowed to search the entire contents of a Gmail user’s account to find evidence laundering case. The ruling in the case potentially opens up the door for more cloud-related searches and investigations. Gabriel Gorenstein, United States Magistrate Judge for the ...
NetApp unveils private storage for Microsoft Azure
NetApp announced today the availability of NetApp Private Storage (NPS), a new solution for Microsoft Azure that provides private, dedicated, elastic storage for the public cloud platform. NPS is one of many solutions NetApp now offers for Microsoft Cloud technologies, including FlexPod for Microsoft Private Cloud. NPS is intended to bridge private resources with the ...
Cortana speaks smart home: Insteon upgrades app for Windows Phone
Insteon announced today that it has added new features to its home automation and control app for Windows 8.1 phones, including integration with Cortana, Microsoft’s intelligent assistant. Users will now be able to speak to their homes and perform tasks using Cortana’s natural language capabilities. Features of the assistant include the ability to vocalize inquiries, ...
Zimbra strengthens collaboration platform with Mezeo buy
Zimbra, Inc. said today that it has acquired Mezeo Software, Inc., a provider of on-premise and cloud-based file sharing and storage. Zimbra intends to augment its open source collaboration suite with Mezeo’s file syncing technology, while also benefiting from Mezeo’s file security and storage efficiency patents. Mezeo’s on-premise file sharing and syncing includes security features ...
Jeremy Burton on EMC’s #megalaunch: #RedefinePossible CrowdChat
On Tuesday, John Furrier and the people at SiliconANGLE had an opportunity to hold an open question and answer CrowdChat with Jeremy Burton, EMC Corp.’s President of Products and Marketing, in order to discuss EMC’s #megalaunch, which included updates to EMC Isilon, and enterprise-grade scale-out Data Lake, XtremIO 3.0, its all-flash arrays, and several other ...
Ed Walsh brought on to Catalogic to shape its future
Catalogic Software announced plans to bring on Ed Walsh as its new CEO. Walsh has become a household name in enterprise IT for being a startup energizer, propelling several startups onto success, including Avamar, now part of EMC, and Storwize, now part of IBM. Walsh brings to Catalogic 20 years of experience and a healthy ...
RackWare raises $2.3M for automated cloud management
RackWare announced today that it has raised $2.3 million in funding thanks in part to investors such as Kickstart Seed Fund and Osage Venture Partners. The automated cloud management provider also revealed that it has benefited from a 75 percent increase in customers over the last three quarters. RackWare offers its customers an automated cloud ...