In an effort to grow its hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence capabilities, IBM announced on Tuesday that it was acquiring Polar Security, an Israel-based company specializing in data security ...

Update: IBM has now confirmed the news and said Polar will be integrated into its Guardium unit (itself based on an acquisition from way back in 2009). No price disclosed. Original article below.

Few things are a devastating to the modern day techie than total data loss. Whether it’s hardware failure, a virus, or any other digital malady, there are plenty of threats out there that can send ...