The demand to use big data for a competitive advantage in commercial fields has never been greater, but all too often practitioners get distracted by the data's noise, instead of concentrating on the signal, as thin and hard-to-hear as it may be.Full article
The Grace Hopper Celebration demonstrated many women find exciting careers in computer science. But as all participants agreed, there's still a lot of work ahead to level the field and crack the glass ceiling.Full article
The growing emphasis on DevOps and IT automation as vendors seek to provide "frictionless IT" to ease the transition to hybrid cloud infrastructure has prompted open source leader Red Hat to acquire up-and-coming automation specialist Ansible Inc. Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) said Friday (Oct. 16) the Ansible acquisition gives it an IT automation and DevOps ...Full article
At SpectraSummit held in Boulder, Colorado, this week, Spectra Logic debuted a new nearline disk storage system, called ArcticBlue, which snaps into the company’s BlackPearl hybrid storage architecture to create an object storage based disk platform that ticks three primary boxes: longevity, efficiency and cost effectiveness. Spectra has purpose built this product for a variety of ...Full article
Some technology businesses and non-profits are rising to the challenge of encouraging more girls to consider computer science careers, unveiling long-term initiatives at the Grace Hopper Celebration in Houston today. YouTube, in partnership with Google's Made with Code team, will partner to host "codeGirl" at no cost on Nov. 1 through 5 before it hits ...Full article
VMware earlier this week announced a refresh of its hybrid cloud management platform that ties those tools more closely to its NSX network virtualization platform for software-defined datacenters. The upgrades were intended to help configure networks and enable micro-segmentation, which VMware executives stress is a key use case for NSX. VMware followed up that cloud ...Full article
October 6 was quite an interesting day for consumer privacy. After 15 years in place, the Safe Harbor agreement was declared invalid by Europe’s highest court, the Court of Justice of the European Union. Driven by data localization trends and consumer privacy concerns in the wake of the “Snowden Effect,” the ruling empowers each country ...Full article
By manipulating or changing data, hackers can alter medical or financial records and put enterprises -- or even lives -- in danger. Tools like threat modeling allay these concerns, says Todd Feinman.Full article
On the day the Grace Hopper Celebration welcomed 12,000 attendees – primarily young women – to Houston, the Anita Borg Institute introduced a local initiative – and a group of employees from a Texas business came to learn how its grassroots group for female engineers could blossom. The Anita Borg Institute (ABI) unveiled the launch ...Full article
Once known for sexy Superbowl commercials, GoDaddy has recast itself as a promoter of equality in hiring – and now, equal pay. The company that once made waves with Danica Patrick ads is now leveraging its "internal culture" and doing more than discuss diversity. Last year at the Grace Hopper Celebration, the web-hosting company disclosed its ...Full article
More data points emerged this week about cloud adoption rates as well as the reasons behind application delivery snafus in the cloud and virtual platforms. The findings emerged in separate surveys from a VMware (NYSE: VMW) event and another study released by VMware's new parent company, Dell Inc., which acquired VMware along with its parent ...Full article
This past year there was a major debate in tech media over the future of artificial intelligence in business. The battle centered on whether AI should be feared and whether it would put people out of jobs. For some, the answer was it definitely would. Others believed it definitely wouldn’t. It turned out to be ...Full article
With the need for more flexibility when it comes to defining and handling large amounts of data, NoSQL has emerged as a feasible alternative to relational databases. NoSQL databases enable better application development productivity, greater ability to scale dynamically to support more users and data, and the ability to develop highly responsive applications and more ...Full article
VMware rolled out a batch of upgrades to its hybrid cloud management platform a day after it was merged as part of EMC Corp. with Dell Inc. VMware (NYSE: VMW) unveiled a "complete refresh" of its cloud management platform during a company event on Tuesday (Oct 13) in Barcelona, Spain. The upgrades include new versions ...Full article
The "hyper-convergence" of computing and storage accelerated with confirmation that Dell Inc. and technology investor Silver Lake Partners will acquire storage leader EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC) for an estimated $67 billion. Under terms of the deal announced on Monday (Oct. 12), EMC subsidiary VMware (NYSE: VMW) would remain an independent, publicly traded company. Additionally, EMC ...Full article
Dell will buy the storage provider EMC (NYSE: EMC) in a deal worth about $67 billion, reports The New York Times today (Dell Announces Purchase of EMC for $67 Billion). Dell and the investment firm Silver Lake, its financial backer, are betting that a huge acquisition will help one of the best-known names in the ...Full article
If he wasn't busy before, Ashley Gorakhpurwalla, vice president and general manager, Servers, at Dell, no doubt is even busier today, now rumors of a merger between Dell and EMC swirl among tech pundits and financial whizzes. A few weeks before these discussions hit the headlines, Gorakhpurwalla sat down with EnterpriseTech's managing editor Alison Diana ...Full article
Amazon Web Services (AMZN) beefed up the Docker application container infrastructure this week with the roll out of a container registry and interface tool designed to scale and rapidly update micro-services and distributed applications. The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) container registry unveiled this week at a company event follows last year's launch of its ...Full article
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