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Microsoft today announced that it has acquired Cycle Computing, a twelve-year-old Connecticut-based company that focuses on helping enterprises orchestrate high-performance computing jobs, large data workloads and other “big computing” jobs in the cloud. The financial details of the deal were not disclosed. While Microsoft plans to use the company’s expertise to improve its… Read More Continue reading Microsoft acquires Cycle Computing
During mergers and acquisitions, companies should conduct third-party risk assessments to identify insider threats that might be lurking on the network.
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Microsoft takes it easy for companies to use Office 365 and has been very successful in moving customers to the cloud. But when you get to the cloud and find that your company is involved in a corporate merger, acquisition, or split, things are not so easy because the tools to do the work don’t exist. Some glimmer of hope exists as ISVs have started to take interest in the space.
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Microsoft’s latest acquisition will be used to help Azure customers maximize their usage of cloud based services and save costs.
Most of the U.S. military’s weapons systems were built without any effort to protect them from cyberattacks on hardware components, and there is evidence that some already have been fitted with digital backdoors, meaning an enemy could make them fail in a real conflict, Pentagon science advisers said. In its latest report, the Defense Science Board published the results of research by its Task Force on Cyber Supply Chain, concluding that despite the risk, the capital cost of building and maintaining a DoD-owned “foundry” to make its own microchips “is not a feasible expense.” The task force warns in stark terms that current weapons systems may already have been back-doored, meaning they would be useless — or worse — in a shooting war. “Of particular concern are the weapons the nation depends upon today,” reads the report, adding “almost all were developed, acquired, and fielded without formal protection plans,” to guard against the the […]
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Applications management company AppDynamics was just wrapping up the final touches on its initial public offering when they learned that Cisco was interested in discussing a potential deal, after preliminary talks were abandoned in November. The discussion picked up again last week, and the IPO was slated to price tomorrow. Although many companies seek acquisition offers in the months leading… Read More Continue reading Why the $3.7 billion AppDynamics acquisition happened right before IPO
HPE today announced that it has acquired data management platform SimpliVity for $650 million in cash. SimpliVity is one of the many companies in this space focused on what is often called “hyperconverged infrastructure.” That sounds like somebody’s buzzword — and it definitely is — but the core idea is pretty sound: hyperconverged systems combine compute,… Read More Continue reading HPE acquires SimpliVity for $650M in cash
Company behind Norton bets big on identity-theft protection services. Continue reading Symantec buys anti-ID fraud firm LifeLock for $2.3 billion
New York marketing tech firm Sprinklr has acquired Portland-based LittleBird, according to Sprinklr founder and CEO Ragy Thomas. LittleBird was founded in 2011 to help researchers quickly find the top experts and influencers on any given subject … Continue reading Sprinklr acquires LittleBird, a tool for finding experts on anything via Twitter
GE Digital today announced that it has acquired Wise.io, a machine-learning powered service that helps businesses find patterns and trends in their vast data stores. At first glance, that may seem like an odd acquisition for a company like GE. It’s important to keep in mind, though, that with Predix, GE already offers its customers a service that focuses on helping them monitor their… Read More Continue reading GE acquires Wise.io to deepen its machine learning stack