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Engine Yard is one of the most widely used developer-oriented PaaS solutions out there, but up until now it could only run Rails and PHP. In the next 30 days the platform will be receiving a big boost with the addition of …
VMworld 2012: Big Expectations in a Booming Virtualized World
VMworld 2012 is going down this month from the 26th to the 30th in San Francisco. VMware itself hasn’t announced any major updates in a while, so it’s safe to assume the company is saving a few things for the event, but …
NetApp’s Big Flash Push: New Product, Huge Ecosystem Update
A couple days ago with Big Blue announced its first major commitment to flash with the acquisition of Texas Memory Systems, I said that the deal is going to have a big impact on the storage market. Other vendors will want to get …
sqrrl Raises $2M for Big Data Security System
sqrrl just received $2 million in seed funding from Atlas Venture and Matrix Partners. Its technology is still in the development stage, but when it officially launches, enterprises will be able to encrypt data in small portions, rather than having to hide an entire …
Nirvanix Lands Cloud Deal with Fox
Fox Networks Group, the subsidiary in charge of operations for the Fox Entertainment Group, chose cloud storage startup Nirvanix to power a big portion of its internal IT. The media giant will use Nirvanix’s Cloud Storage Network for a couple of things, …
Looking Back at VMworld 2011: Did the Vision of Security and Flash Come True?
VMworld 2012 is just a week away, and now is a good opportunity to reflect on what came out of the gathering – one of the largest annual conferences in IT – last year. Security was a big deal at VMworld 2011. …
How One Massive School District Gets Efficient with EMC
EMC’s VNX unified storage and DataDomain deduplication technology are being used by The Toronto District School Board, the fourth largest district in North America, to achieve greater operational efficiency. TDSB supports 6,000 schools that are compromised by 250,000 students and 40,000 staff. …
This Week in Big Data: Symantec’s Hadoop Play, the Presidential Race and More
There were a few big updates coming out of the big data ecosystem this week. Symantec upped its investment in analytics by launching an add-on for its Cluster File System that works with HortonWorks’ Hadoop distribution. The result is a product called …
The Public and the Personal Cloud in the Spotlight This Week
VMworld 2012 is coming later this month, and VMware is already starting to up its cloud play to give customers plenty to talk about ahead of the gathering. This week the virtualization firm unveiled a very reasonable trial version of its vCloud …
How IBM’s Acquisition of Texas Memory Affects the Too-Hot Flash Market
IBM acquired the privately-held Texas Memory Systems in a move that could drive the other big vendors to dive right into the flash scene. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. TMS is a firm that has been making storage systems for …