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Dropbox Gets Hacked, Box Gets Funding: This Week in the Cloud
Two of the biggest names in file sync had big updates this week – one disclosed more details about a recent security breach, and the other announced a massive round of funding that reaffirms just how big a phenomenon cloud lockers have become. Last month Dropbox users started seeing more spam in their inboxes, including ...
Fusion-io’s Flash NAS Software Makes your Servers Run 25X Faster
Shortly after flash storage pioneer Fusion-io acquired IoTurbine the company debuted what it called ioCache, a flash-based RAM substitute that comes in handy in high-performance analytics environments, and require a lot of juice. Now, Fusion debuted yet another solution based on IoTurbine’s caching software that’s even more buzzworthy. The Fusion ION acceleration platform turns the ioDrives ...
Silver Spring Launches On-Demand Smart Grid Service
Silver Spring Networks has been in the utilities’ software business for 10 years now. Although this industry is more often than not behind the curve in IT, the vendor is modernizing its portfolio. This week the firm announced a new service called SilverLink, a solution that aims to make the relevant information easily accessible to ...
EMC Turns to Lenovo as “Long-Term” Partnership Seeks Chinese Market
Enterprise solutions vendors EMC and Lenovo have formed what Rod Mathews, EMC’s senior director of business development calls a “symbiotic relationship” in an effort to enter the enterprise space in China. This emerging market is seeing increased demand for not only PCs and mobile devices, but also IT services, servers and storage. Saying that few ...
DDN Unveils Management Software for Analytics Environments
DataDirect Networks is offering a new consolidated management platform for customers of its SFA, 10K and 12K series systems. DirectMon can run in GridScaler and IBM GBFS environments, and is a part of a broader long term “analytics infrastructure direction” that will eventually cover a bigger portion of DDN’s storage portfolio according to a release. “DDN’s ...
Amazon Offering More Competitive Options to Enterprises
Research firm Gartner lists the public cloud as one of the fastest growing verticals in enterprise IT, and Amazon has apparently been taking notes. Some of Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) larger customers report that the cloud services provider is offering increasingly attractive deals with much more competitive pricing. What’s the catch? Vendor lock-in. The new ...
Rackspace Coming to a Full Circle with OpenStack Cloud Launch
Monday was a big day for Rackspace . The web host is one of the founders of OpenStack, an open cloud platform project that it collaborated on with NASA and a few others two years ago. Now, several releases and hundreds of additional contributors later, Rackspace has fired up its own commercial OpenStack cloud. This week ...
HP: webOS won’t Run on Existing Devices
Hewlett-Packard bought out the struggling Palm, and its webOS operating system, in 2010 with the goal of entering the highly-competitive mobile market. The hardware giant put a lot of weight behind webOS under the leadership of former CEO Leo Apotheker, but once the keynotes were over and the devices hit the market it turned out ...
As Promised, NetFlix Open Sources Chaos Monkey
Content streaming and movie rental service Netflix utilizes cloud computing to power its core operations. In fact, the bulk of Netflix’s infrastructure is cloud-based, and it is one of Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) largest customers. Netflix has developed an entire arsenal of tools that help it manage its massive cloud environment and more efficiently manage outages and ...
Enterprise Migration to the Cloud Still Has a Long Way to Go
The public cloud is picking up momentum, but many large enterprises are still hesitant about jumping aboard the public “as-a-service” bandwagon. Dan Lamorena, a director for Symantec’s storage and availability management group, explained, “You may not see the mass adoption of the cloud [in large enterprises] for five, ten or even fifteen years. Many organizations won’t change ...