New alliance combines Hitachi Vantara’s data infrastructure with BMC’s software expertise to help enterprises reduce costs, optimise operations and secure mainframe data

Taiwanese computer hardware manufacturer Gigabyte has been hit by a ransomware attack, forcing the shutdown of systems, and with the group responsible threatening to release 112GB of stolen data from Gigabyte, Intel, AMD, and American Megatrends.

Big data vendor Pivotal has announced what it says is the ‘world’s first open source-based, enterprise-class big data product suite.’