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What you missed in Cloud: Driving adoption
It is a universal truth of software development that the easier an offering is to adopt and use, the broader its appeal becomes. Oracle Corp. set out to apply the principle in the public cloud last week with the acquisition of Ravello Systems Inc., a startup whose unique brand of virtualization promises to dramatically simplify ...
EMC intros all-flash VMAX, DSSD arrays as part of historic refocus
After years of slowing growth in its core disk-based array business and constant scrutiny from analysts, EMC Corp. is finally ready for a change. The data center giant this morning revealed an ambitious effort to retool its entire primary storage portfolio around flash, beginning with the crown jewel: Its flagship VMAX series. EMC is adding ...
Microsoft Azure gets new data-driven security features
It’s been an eventful past 48 hours for Microsoft. Yesterday, the software giant announced the acquisition of mobile development giant Xamarin Inc. in a deal reportedly worth north of $400 million. And today it’s rolling out one of the biggest updates to Azure in recent memory. Much of the new functionality that is being introduced ...
Network uptime specialist ThousandEyes nabs $35M from cloud giants
While mobile devices and cloud computing have greatly improved the productivity of the average enterprise user, the growing amount of business activity taking place outside the firewall is making it harder than ever for network administrators to do their jobs. A group of high-profile investors including Google Ventures and Salesforce.com Inc.’s private equity arm today ...
Automation giant ServiceNow moves into security with new cloud service
For all the effort that security vendors have been putting into providing more automation for their customers, network protection software is ultimately only as effective the administrator behind the screen. ServiceNow Inc. hopes to elevate the human element in the equation with a new cloud-based offering designed to address one of the biggest productivity bottlenecks affecting ...
BlackBerry launches security practice to help companies combat hacking
While most of the other vendors attending the Mobile World Congress this week are showing off their latest consumer gadgets, BlackBerry Ltd. is focusing solely on the enterprise. The main talking point at the company’s booth this morning is its launch of a new security practice that will focus on helping organizations defend their infrastructure ...
Infobright promises x1000 faster queries with new optimization tool
Vendors in the overcrowded data management space are becoming more and more creative in their efforts to stand out from the pack. The latest example of this increasing resourcefulness comes from Infobright Inc., which is rolling out a new offering today that promises to improve the performance of popular analytics systems such as Apache Spark ...
Nimble dives into the all-flash market with new petabyte-scale systems
Six months after word leaked that Nimble Storage Inc. is planning to follow in the footsteps of its top rivals from the hybrid array market and expand to the all-flash category, the news is now official. The vendor this morning pulled back the curtains on a new family of systems packed entirely with 3D NAND ...
Alluxio, the in-memory store for Apache Spark, hits version 1.0
As the Hadoop File System continues to lose traction among Spark adopters, new and more sophisticated storage frameworks are starting to take its place. One of the most popular options is the open-source Alluxio (previously known as Tachyon), which is moving under the wing of a dedicated foundation this morning on occasion of its first ...
Docker takes containers on-premise with new DevOps platform
Thousands of organizations have adopted Docker Inc.’s container engine since its release three years ago, but only a tiny fraction boast large-scale production deployments. And the number becomes even smaller when narrowing down the list to traditional enterprises. The startup is moving to remedy the situation today with the launch of a new platform that ...