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Cisco significantly bolsters security portfolio with $28B Splunk buy

Network World

Looking to significantly reinforce its security software portfolio, Cisco has struck a $28 billion cash deal to acquire enterprise and cloud protection company Splunk. Founded in 2003, Splunk’s software platform is known for its wide-reaching ability to search, monitor and analyze data from a variety of systems.

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The Game Awards returns on December 8 from the Microsoft Theater in LA

TechSpot

The network had hosted a video game awards show annually from 2003 to 2013 that Keighley had been a part of, but the company planned to scale back operations for 2014 by. The annual video game awards ceremony debuted in 2014 after gaming journalist Geoff Keighley parted ways with Spike.

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Funding news: Angel conference backs brain device startup, weapons detection company lands $15M

GeekWire

The news: Five startups jostled for $200,000 in funding in the final round of the Seattle Angel Conference , with new medical device company BrainSpace rising to the top. The founders: BrainSpace CTO Stephen Morse is a mechanical engineer who has worked for a variety of companies, including global electrical and manufacturing company Flex.

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Social networks and engineering serendipity in the workplace

Trends in the Living Networks

The New York Times has an interesting article titled Engineering Serendipity which looks at the some of the ways companies are trying to create felicitous and unexpected connections between their staff. and Google are doing in the space, the article continues: As Yahoo and Google see it, serendipity is largely a byproduct of social networks.

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Emerging Threats: Provider of Open Source Threat Intelligence

CTOvision

Founded in 2003 as a cyber security research community, Emerging Threats has become a de facto standard in network-based malware threat detection. Emerging Threats - now part of Proofpoint - is a world-leading provider of open source and commercial threat and malware intelligence.

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An Intelligent Future for Manufacturing

CIO Business Intelligence

In the automotive sector for example, the advent of autonomous vehicles has resulted in burgeoning demand for computing power, cloud storage and network bandwidth. Another leading manufacturer, BYD , first entered the automotive market in 2003. One such automaker is China’s First Automobile Works (FAW).

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Women IT leaders take center stage

CIO Business Intelligence

But they also brought her increased recognition which helped her land a job, in 2003, as director of the Dow Jones project management office. That’s how you create extraordinary outcomes,” says Meerah Rajavel, CIO of Palo Alto Networks as well as a board member at three companies. Others can learn from Balaban’s insights.

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