machine learning

Managed Services

Proofpoint adds anti-phishing capabilities to automated email protection solution with new CLEAR solution

September 5, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Proofpoint adds anti-phishing capabilities to automated email protection solution with new CLEAR solution
The new capabilities come from the Proofpoint acquisition of Wombat Security earlier this year, and significantly beef up what had been Proofpoint’s TRAP automation platform.

VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger at VMworld 2018
Cloud

At VMware’s 20th birthday party, CEO Gelsinger plots company’s next act

August 28, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off on At VMware’s 20th birthday party, CEO Gelsinger plots company’s next act
Kicking off VMworld in VMware’s 20th year, Pat Gelsinger outlines the company’s history of building bridges, and identifies the next bridge to cross.

Data Centre

Dell EMC builds PowerEdge bridge to next-gen workloads with modular PowerEdge MX architecture

August 21, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell EMC builds PowerEdge bridge to next-gen workloads with modular PowerEdge MX architecture
Dell EMC will launch their new modular PowerEdge MX platform September 12, promising to remake data centre architecture with technology that will support both traditional and next-gen applications within a composable computing framework that pays much more attention to memory than earlier iterations of that technology.

Backup

Cohesity introduces Helios SaaS-based orchestration and management solution

August 21, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Cohesity introduces Helios SaaS-based orchestration and management solution
Helios is the first SaaS-based application on top of the Cohesity platform, something that was always part of the company’s vision, and which provides new data and app orchestration and management capabilities.

Big Data

Increasing data catalogue adoption leads Alation to establish first partner program

August 16, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Increasing data catalogue adoption leads Alation to establish first partner program
The Alation program launches with a dozen partners, which includes BI vendors and a mix of regional and niche integrators.

Security

FireEye adds machine learning as the fourth engine in Endpoint Security solution

July 31, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on FireEye adds machine learning as the fourth engine in Endpoint Security solution
FireEye has spent the last two years developing its own machine learning engine, which now complements signature, behaviour-based and intelligence-based engines in their endpoint offering.

Big Data

Looker upgrades their platform’s machine learning with highly complementary Google Cloud BigQuery ML integration

July 30, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Looker upgrades their platform’s machine learning with highly complementary Google Cloud BigQuery ML integration
The integration between Looker and BigQuery ML unites all elements of data scientist workflows, so they can do all their work without having to Leave Looker.

Artificial Intelligence

Data science startup Insight Engines adds log data analysis and hybrid cloud capability to ask better questions of data

July 26, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Data science startup Insight Engines adds log data analysis and hybrid cloud capability to ask better questions of data
Grant Wernick, the CEO and co-founder of Insight Engines, says that their product revolutionizes log store search and helps companies address the scarcity and cost of data scientists by letting English majors do the same job.

Backup

Rubrik deploys Radar SaaS service on Polaris platform for easy recovery from ransomware

July 25, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Rubrik deploys Radar SaaS service on Polaris platform for easy recovery from ransomware
While anti-ransomware measures to date have largely focused on trying to keep it out, Radar focuses on quickly assessing the damage and then recovering from it as quickly as possible.

Cloud

PagerDuty continues to build out go-to-market model with AWS Marketplace availability

July 20, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on PagerDuty continues to build out go-to-market model with AWS Marketplace availability
The San-Francisco-based company with a strong Canadian connection has been moving beyond their direct model as they expand, introducing a channel program earlier this year, and now making themselves available for sale to AWS customers on that marketplace.