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SAS enters security market

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SAS has thrown its analytical hat into yet another arena with the introduction of SAS Cybersecurity. Launched at the company’s Premier Business Leadership Series event, it leverages SAS’s expertise with big data and analytics to determine when mischief is afoot on a corporate network, augmenting network flow with business information and external threat data to detect cyberrisks based on specific business workflows.

VMware withdraws from Virtustream

According to its SEC filing, VMware has withdrawn from the Virtustream cloud services joint venture previously announced with its parent, EMC. Virtustream, a privately held cloud services and software company, was acquired by EMC earlier this year. The initial plan was to use it as the foundation of the EMC federation’s hybrid cloud business; the Virtustream joint venture’s financial results were to be consolidated into VMware financial statements beginning in Q1 2016.