In an attempt to keep pace with its cloud rivals, Google has acquired a cloud enterprise services startup and its platform for buying and selling enterprise software in the cloud. Orbitera's platform helps independent software vendors and systems integrators distribute services on the cloud. At the time the acquisition was announced, the Los Angeles-based startup ...Full article
Blockchain and other "crypto-currency" technologies are gathering momentum as investors continue to pour money into digital transaction approaches while banks shift from pilot projects to production deployments. According to estimates by U.K. market analyst Juniper Research, venture capitalists invested $290 million in blockchain technologies and Bitcoin companies during the first six months of this year. ...Full article
Micron Technology Inc. used last week's Flash Memory Summit to roll out its new line of 3-D XPoint memory technology jointly developed with Intel Corp. while demonstrating the technology in solid-state drives. Micron (NASDAQ: MU) claimed its Quantx line delivers PCI Express (PCIe) SSD performance with read latencies at less than 10 microseconds and writes ...Full article
The Obama administration has released a new federal open-source policy for improving access to software developed by or for federal agencies. The new policy released this week by Tony Scott, the Obama administration's CIO, "requires new custom-developed source code developed specifically by or for the federal government to be made available for sharing and re-use ...Full article
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced today that it will acquire rival HPC server maker SGI for $7.75 per share, or about $275 million, inclusive of cash and debt. The deal ends the seven-year reprieve that kept the SGI banner flying after Rackable Systems purchased the bankrupt Silicon Graphics Inc. for $25 million in 2009 and assumed the SGI ...Full article
A Google-backed startup emerging from stealth mode this week is pitching a concept called the "real world web," a cloud-based platform designed to capitalize on emerging virtual reality technology to deliver "mixed reality." Big league ballparks are among the early adopters. Xperiel emerged Thursday (Aug. 11) to announce a $7 million initial funding round that ...Full article
Nimbus Data and Netlist unveiled new storage and memory products of major potential at the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara this week. Nimbus launched an all-flash platform for cloud and big data, called ExaFlash, that company CEO and founder Thomas Isakovich said “will reshape the storage and data center industries,” with pricing at less ...Full article
Electronic disk storage became popular in the early 2000’s for archive and compliance storage. SEC Rule 17a-4 is the federal regulation that requires broker-dealers and other regulated companies to retain business-related communications. It requires that records be preserved in a non-rewriteable, non-erasable format. EMC Centera was the first electronic disk storage solution that satisfied Rule ...Full article
The latest release of a network virtualization overlay is designed to connect multiple OpenStack cloud implementations while providing a software-defined networking (SDN) approach to emerging container orchestration engines making their way into production. San Francisco-based network virtualization specialist Midokura said Wednesday (Aug. 10) the latest release of its enterprise "MidoNet" would allow container orchestration engines ...Full article
If we needed another sign that Intel is serious about mining AI market opportunities, it came today when the chip company announced it had inked a “definitive agreement” to acquire artificial intelligence and deep learning company Nervana Systems. Financial terms haven’t been disclosed yet, but a source familiar with the deal told Recode it’s worth more ...Full article
With security threats growing more sophisticated, the market for information security products is expected to boom over the next five years, led by security testing, IT outsourcing and data loss prevention offerings. Market watcher Gartner Inc. (NYSE: IT) said this week the IT security market would top $81 billion this year, a 7.9 percent annual ...Full article
Recent cloud statistics and predictions report that worldwide spending on public cloud services will grow from $70 billion in 2015 to more than $141 billion in 2019. Those numbers are positive, indicating that earlier concerns around reliability and security are leveling out. When the public cloud became a bona fide trend about 10 years ago, ...Full article
By hook, crook, negligence or equipment malfunction, $40 billion worth of goods pass through checkout lanes at retail stores around the world each year without being scanned. Be it the fault of consumers (using self-checkout machines) or employees using POS systems, non-scanning cuts into retail’s thin margins, particularly those in the grocery sector. Everseen, of ...Full article
Among the array of sensors being incorporated in Internet of Things architectures are fleets of drones being used to deliver cloud-based data such as hyper-local weather reports. The Weather Company, a cloud-based weather data platform acquired by IBM (NYSE: IBM) last October, said this week it would work with AirMap, a provider of "airspace management ...Full article
The manufacturing sector that is leading the way in factory automation and the leading edge of the Internet of Things, the so-called industrial IoT, is increasingly relying on statistical data to develop simulation tools that could be used for new automated manufacturing processes. Case in point is a collaborative effort between Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) ...Full article
When people drive, their cars identify who they are. Or who they might be. This includes people “of interest” to police: drivers with expired licenses or unpaid fines, with outstanding arrest warrants, who may be sought in a criminal investigation or who are driving cars that have been reported stolen. Or even people whose names ...Full article
The scaling of machine intelligence technology in the enterprise continues apace with another successful venture funding round reported by a cognitive computing startup. CognitiveScale of Austin, Texas, said Tuesday (Aug. 2) that Intel Capital and Norwest Venture Partners led a Series B funding round that garnered $21.8 million. The startup launched nearly two years ago ...Full article
The data center has become associated with complexity as traditional storage is struggling to keep pace with workload demands. To address these challenges, industry experts anticipate Software Defined Storage (SDS) and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) will be significant areas for investment in 2016 and beyond as organizations seek to manage their rising storage and compute requirements, especially ...Full article
Growing deployment of distributed applications on scale-out and cloud databases has, vendors claim, fueled the need to protect critical application data, resulting in data governance standards that mandate backup and recovery capabilities as part of the application stack. Those requirements prompted database recovery software specialist Data IO to forge a partnership with public cloud giant ...Full article
Is the closed-source system on its last legs? Maybe not just yet, but we’re pretty close to it. Consider the phenomenal growth in the last five years of new open source technologies and processes, such as containers, Hadoop and databases like MongoDB, ElasticSearch and Redis. An entirely new set of architectures, most of them open ...Full article
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