DALLAS, Aug. 21, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Amid the proliferation of real time data from sources such as mobile devices, web, social media, sensors, log files and transactional applications, Big Data has found a host of vertical market applications, ranging from fraud detection to R&D.; Photo - http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20140821/138541 "Big Data Market: 2014 – 2020 – Opportunities, Challenges, Strategies, Industry Verticals & Forecasts" Key Findings: In 2014 Big Data vendors will pocket nearly $30 Billion from hardware, software and professional services revenues Big Data investments are further expected to grow at a CAGR of nearly 17% over the next 6 years, eventually accounting for $76 Billion by the end of 2020 The market is ripe for acquisitions of pure-play Big Data startups, as competition heats up between IT incumbents Nearly every large scale IT ven... (more)

Skybox Security Receives $10.1 Million Series C Funding

In December 2004 Skybox Security completed a $10.1 million in third round equity financing co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Benchmark Capital and Carmel Ventures with additional participation from Mofet Technology Fund and Robert Thomas, former CEO of NetScreen and a board member at Skybox. The funds will be used to leverage Skybox's market momentum and leadership by building out a strong sales and marketing infrastructure for the company's products. "We are pleased with the opportunity to continue to support Skybox Security. Skybox has demonstrated remarkable momentum based on innovative technology that will enable corporations to continuously manage security risks in their IT infrastructures," said Ravi Mhatre, General Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners. "We're pleased to close our third round of financing and even more gratified that our existing group of... (more)

Intel Heads Into Consumer Electronics Flash Market

Intel is moving beyond its cellular flash products into flash memory for consumer electronics devices. Intel will also start making flash memory cards, a new market for the chip company. "Intel is no longer a niche business that plays in cellular only," said Darin Billerbeck, vice president Intel Communications Group, "We realized (our previous approach) wasn't the greatest strategy because we excluded ourselves from a lot of different markets...There is about 50 percent of the cellular market we don't play in." Currently Intel only makes NOR flash. While this kind of flash is good for storing code it lacks the density of NAND flash which is used in memory cards that store MP3 files and digital photos. "In order to be relevant in the removable-card market, we need a data play," Billerbeck said. "We're looking at a lot of different technologies." Products coming in 2... (more)

Lucid Security Prevents Unwanted Intruders

Lucid Security, creator of ipANGEL, which the company says is the world's only auto-tuning intrusion prevention solution with onboard asset/vulnerability scanning, announced its CTO Vik Phatak will team with Information Security expert Tom Bowers to deliver a presentation on Asset-Centric Security as part of the Perimeter Question track at the Computer Security Institute's (CSI) 15th annual NetSec conference, Monday, June 13, at the Phoenician Resort in Scottsdale, AZ. Phatak and Bowers will share real-world insights and perspectives on how to effectively blend existing and new technologies to integrate and protect intellectual property within the enterprise. "Many enterprise security programs are missing the primary objective when building a secure infrastructure. Too often the focus is to secure desktops, routers, firewalls, servers and databases, rather the informa... (more)

Layered Threat Protection: Virtua Health Using SurfControl Web Filter to Stop "Blended Attacks"

SurfControl, a world leader in multi-layered threat protection for enterprises, today announced that Virtua Health is using SurfControl Web Filter for Microsoft ISA Server and SurfControl's Adaptive Threat Intelligence service to safeguard its people and IT systems against blended Internet threats. As a result of deploying SurfControl Web Filter for Microsoft ISA Server, Virtua Health has improved security, reduced network bandwidth and IT costs, and significantly increased employee productivity. It also enables Virtua Health to enforce an acceptable use policy for managing access to inappropriate or unauthorized Internet content. Virtua Health is a non-profit, multi-hospital healthcare system that employs approximately 7,100 clinical and administrative personnel and 1,800 physicians. The Virtua Health IT infrastructure supports the system's four hospitals, a headq... (more)

Open Source Storage Plans 64 GB Server Powered By AMD Opteron

A small server maker- Open Source Storage Inc.- is aiming to launch a 64GB server powered by Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s dual-core Opteron chip. Open Source Storage Inc. already ships a high-end system capable of supporting up to 32GB of memory—the OSS RS 32—and is planning to begin shipping the 64GB server next month, CEO Eren Niazi said in an interview. The Santa Clara, Calif., company has several test systems at customer sites, Niazi said. OSS, which also offers a line of storage products, aims its servers at the high-performance computing space, focusing on the open-source community. The five-year-old company, which has 32 employees, offers systems running on both AMD and Intel Corp. technology. The OSS RS 64 will be a 1U (1.75-inch) server and will use high-density 4GB DIMM (dual in-line memory modules), Niazi said. Pricing for the system will start... (more)

DataCore Announces 'Surf's Up' for Storage Virtualization - 'Total Enterprise Virtualization,' System Consolidation and IP SANs Are Powering the Wave

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Jan. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- DataCore Software today announced that the movement to "total enterprise virtualization" and iSCSI are driving new users to virtual storage. Hundreds of new, small to mid-size customers have installed DataCore's SANmelody(TM) storage virtualization software in the second half of 2006. New users include Span the Wan, S&S; Cycle, Coastal Range Systems, LifeSearch, Hedgemetrix LLC, Fox Williams, Hamilton Beach, Hallmark Financial Services, Inc., ETO, Herakles LLC, Olin Corp., Paragon Engineering, Alchemy Plus, City of Carmel, Wilcox & Savage, First Hawaiian Bank, University of Arkansas, ADMN, John H. Harland Company, Teachers Media Company, Dennis Publishing, VerdictMAX, Adolfson & Peterson Construction, Bridgewater Associates, EngenderHealth, Spectranetics, LTK Engineering Services, All Medical Personnel and many more. Comp... (more)

The Marines Enlist VMware

VMware said Monday that the United States Marine Corps is deploying its widgetry across its data centers and mobile combat units worldwide. VMware couldn't resist pointing out that lives depend on the Corps' continuous on-demand access to mission-critical applications and information. It appears the Marines want to reduce their 300 data centers and 12,000 physical servers down to 30 data centers and 100 mobile platforms. The value of the contract was not disclosed. There's training and professional services involved. Sixth-Generation Montvale Itanium Arrives Intel has pushed out its wimpy dual-core Montecito upgrade, code named Montvale, a 90nm 1.42GHz-1.66GHz Itanium chip that was - alas - due last year and was originally supposed to be 65nm. It only adds a little to the existing 1.4GHz-1.6GHz Montecito. The thing is formally called the 9100 and can be had in six types ... (more)

Egenera Adds New Virtualization Customer

Egenera Inc. has chosen the Egenera BladeFrame system and Egenera vBlade software for its critical staging environment. Betfair is one of the fastest growing online businesses in the world with millions of end-user customers. One of the key factors driving Betfair's success is its strong focus on offering users new products and enhanced functionality. Betfair employs a three-step development and quality assurance, staging, and production process to develop, test and deploy new functionality and services before they are made available on the Betfair Website. As a result of its rapid growth, Betfair needed a more efficient and agile pre-production staging environment that could scale to support more than three times the new offerings schedule of the previous 12 months. "Whenever we launched a new product, we were adding more and more physical hardware into the staging... (more)

sepagoPROFILE Pushes The Virtualization Of User Profiles

One user and a consistently up-to-date profile – this sounds so simple, but in IT it's a challenge. User profiles in Windows-based computing environments are becoming increasingly complex while gaining in importance at the same time. Users no longer use just one device. Instead, they are redirected to suitable computers via a variety of virtualization techniques. Products, from Microsoft, Citrix or VMware, take care of assigning computing resources suitable for the users' tasks. sepago defines the virtualization of user profiles as the de-coupling of the user data from operating system and application provisioning. This does not depend on the device at which the user logs in nor on how applications are being provisioned. "Virtualization of user profiles means that the end user finally gets to enjoy the benefits of the virtualization movement,“ reports P... (more)

RF Code Announces Real Time Tracking of Rack-Level Assets

RF Code announced the availability of a far-reaching solution giving data center professionals the on-demand ability to know instantly, at any time, the exact location of every one of their computing assets. By automating IT asset tracking in the data center, IT managers now can have an “instant” inventory of all their data center assets. That’s because the solution conducts a complete and accurate inventory every few seconds, as opposed to the weeks it usually takes to inventory assets. This announcement reinforces RF Code’s aggressive move into the IT asset management space. Recently, the company introduced a Bluetooth enabled mobile reader, the first mobile offering to provide distributed inventory and on-demand search applications for IT assets. Now, the company becomes the first to solve the rack level tracking challenge by automating the... (more)