EMC Distinguished Engineer John Cardente Is In theCUBE During EMC World 2014

The sheer number of moving parts involved in piecing together a full-blown hybrid cloud with comparable scalability and cost-efficiency as top infrastructure-as-a-service platforms make it all but impossible for the majority of organizations to fully realize the model. For EMC Corp., however, the solution to one of the biggest challenges that the industry has faced in recent years couldn’t be more clear: deliver the architecture as an integrated whole instead of selling the components individually.

That’s what the storage stalwart is going for with its newly unveiled Federation Software-Defined Data Center Solution, an extensive bundle of hardware, virtual management software and cloud services that represents the full technological might of the EMC Federation. The offering is the first of five planned solutions combining the company’s disk and flash arrays with value-added capabilities from subsidiaries VMware Inc., RSA Security LLC and Pivotal Software Inc., the newest member of the club.

But while EMC is offering to simplify the hybrid cloud at the expense of freedom of choice, Docker Inc. is taking the exact opposite approach with its open-source container engine, promising to unshackle the paradigm from the underlying infrastructure and even management software. The firm moved a big step closer towards monetizing the tremendous momentum that its vision has garnered over the last year and a half with the Tuesday acquisition of a fellow startup called Koality, which sells a continuous integration service geared towards enterprise developers.

The platform is designed with the strict security requirements of corporate environments in mind and offers a number of added features on top of that, most notably a natively hybrid architecture that allows organizations to extend on-premise installations into Amazon Web Services with minimal tinkering. The deal, the terms of which were not disclosed, came a day before cloud monitoring startup New Relic Inc. announced a buy of its own.

The Barcelona-based Ducksboard has developed a tool that pulls data from a variety of popular services ranging from Twitter to Salesforce.com and consolidate that information into a centralized view of the different applications. That fits nicely with New Relic’s increased focus on analytics, which the company reiterated the very same day by opening up its flagship platform so that users can build their own data-driven functionality on top.

In conjunction, the firm pulled the curtains back on an automated testing solution designed to help identify and resolve potential problems before they can cause any damage through simulation. Complementing the tool is a new feature aimed at helping developers understand why their mobile apps crash and standalone a product for optimizing front-end JavaScript code.