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Docker, the company that kicked off the recent enthusiasm for containers two years ago, today announced that it has raised a $95 million Series D round led by Insight Venture Partners. New investors in this round include Coatue, Goldman Sachs and Northern Trust. Existing investors Benchmark, Greylock Partners, Sequoia Capital, Trinity Ventures and AME Cloud Ventures also participated.

As Docker’s VP of enterprise marketing David Messina noted when I talked to him earlier this week, it’s interesting to see the support from financial services companies in this round. This somewhat atypical investment, he believes, speaks to the support Docker has from developer teams in all kinds of organizations and how these companies now look at Docker as a key platform for their teams.

Grazed from Cleveland Business.   Author: Timothy Magaw.

IBM announced late Monday, April 13, it had acquired Explorys Inc., a Cleveland Clinic spinoff that helps hospitals analyze patient data.  Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. In a news release, IBM, the Armonk, N.Y.-based computer powerhouse, shared little of its plans for the newly acquired company other than to say than it is now part of the company’s newly launched Watson Health unit. The Watson technology, with which the Clinic has experimented in recent years, is perhaps best known for handily defeating some of the best Jeopardy! contestants of all time.

IBM also announced its Watson division will work with tech heavyweights Apple, Johnson & Johnson and Medtronic. In addition to the Explorys acquisition, IBM also announced it had purchased and Phytel, a cloud-based computer services company based out of Dallas…

Grazed from Bloomberg.  Author: Alex Barinka.

IBM is joining with Apple Inc., Johnson & Johnson and Medtronic Plc to create a technology that will make it easier for health-care companies to analyze patient data.  International Business Machines Corp. announced a cloud-computing platform, called Watson Health Cloud, which can store and analyze anonymous patient data. A business unit will be created around the offering with at least 2,000 specialists, IBM said in a statement.

IBM has been seeking growth in newer areas like data analytics and cloud computing as tumbling demand for legacy hardware and services has dragged down revenue. The company has increasingly relied on industry-specific partnerships to help boost sales, like these latest tie-ups in health care…

Grazed from NextGov.  Author: Frank Konkel.

Almost two years ago, the National Security Agency forever lost its “No Such Agency” nickname at the hands of one of its contractors — a once-trusted insider by the name of Edward Snowden.

Snowden’s stream of leaked NSA secrets about classified surveillance programs shined the public spotlight on the clandestine government organization. Though the stream has now dissipated to a trickle, the impact to the intelligence community continues…

Grazed from Zacks.  Author: Editorial Staff.

At the Hannover Messe event, software developer Microsoft Corporation discussed three recent collaborations related to its cloud service, Microsoft Azure.  Microsoft announced that it has entered into partnership deals with Fujitsu Limited, a Japanese information and communication technology (ICT) company; KUKA AG, a manufacturer of industrial robots and automation solutions and Miele & Cie. KG, a manufacturer of high-end household appliances and commercial tools…

The Fujitsu Collaboration

The partnership is intended to power Fujitsu devices with the Windows 8.1 Pro to achieve operational distinction. In addition, the collaboration will integrate the Internet of Things (IoT) services of FUJITSU Cloud A5 for Microsoft Azure, and promote the Fujitsu IoT/M2M (machine-to-machine) platform…

Grazed from CCI.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Independent research commissioned by Peer 1 Hosting shows the use of on-premise and private cloud solutions is to fall over the next three years, with hybrid cloud taking up the slack, and with most of the respondents citing cost as the reason for their move to hybrid.

The study, which canvassed the opinions of IT decision-makers from the UK, US and Canada, asked: "What do you expect your organisation’s approach to look like in one and three years’ time?" 10% of respondents stated that currently they primarily use hybrid cloud, with 28% anticipating they will be using hybrid cloud in three years’ time. In contrast, use of on-premise hosting is anticipated to fall from 31% to 17% over the same period, whilst private cloud drops from 52% to 41%…

Grazed from SysConMedia.  Author: Editorial Staff.

It’s springtime in Kentucky and recently I had the opportunity to have a conversation with Kendrick Coleman to talk about S3motion, Buckets, Containers, Objects, AWS S3, Cloud and Object Storage, node.js, EMCcode and open source among other related topics which are available in a podcast here, or video here and available at StorageIO.tv.

In this Server StorageIO industry trends perspective podcast episode, @EMCcode (Part of EMC) developer advocate Kendrick Coleman (@KendrickColeman) joins me for a conversation…

Grazed from NewsBTC.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Technology has come to that point where all businesses are migrating to cloud based services. Everything from emails, websites, file sharing to enterprise level software run on cloud services these days. Therefore, it doesn’t come as a surprise that the cybercriminals are also choosing greener pastures for their business (if you can call it so).

Cloud: The New Home for Cybercriminals

It was found that the number of attacks on cloud services have gradually increased in the past one year and the trend is expected to continue. Alcatel Lucent’s Motive Security Labs define cloud services as those that are dependent on Internet-based server components.  Just like the companies and individuals migrating to cloud services because of its ease of access and cost benefits, even cybercriminals find cloud more lucrative maybe because of the same reasons as others…

Grazed from Fredericksburg.  Author: Editorial Staff.

Google is releasing its cheapest Chromebook laptops yet, two versions priced at $149 aimed at undercutting Microsoft’s Windows franchise and gaining ground in even more classrooms.

Various PC manufacturers have been working with Google to design lightweight laptops running on the Chrome operating system since 2011. The newest versions are made by Hisense and Haier. Hisense’s Chromebook can be ordered beginning Tuesday at Walmart.com and Haier’s version can be bought at Amazon.com…