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Report: Public cloud market to pass $200 billion this year
While overall technology spending in the enterprise is only set to rise about 0.6 percent this year, Gartner Inc. expects demand for cloud services to increase 16.5 percent during the same period, or more than 25 times faster. The newly released forecast puts the market on track to surpass the symbolic $200 billion mark by ...
Stealthy Israeli startup FireGlass nets $20M to provide silver bullet against online threats
Several of the most notable investors in the cybersecurity scene have lined up behind a secretive Israeli startup called FireGlass Ltd. that is on a mission to change the way organizations defend against hacking. Its site is scrubbed of any details that might give away the trick before the scheduled launch of its offering at ...
Microsoft makes its deep learning framework accessible for developers
Barely a week seems to go by nowadays without Microsoft Corp. making some gesture of support towards the developer community. Last Tuesday, the software giant pledged to increase funding for cloud projects that promote the public good, and now it’s expanding the range of applications where its open-source deep learning framework can be put to ...
Sweeping layoffs to hit VMware amid Dell-EMC merger worries
Word has leaked that VMware Inc. plans to lay off as many as 900 employees this week, or about five percent of its global workforce, as part of an effort to trim operations. The move is reportedly timed to coincide with its third quarter earnings call on Tuesday, which will be closely watched by a ...
What you missed in Big Data: Hadoop is the star of the show
After a brief hiatus, Hadoop returned to the center of attention last week when private equity giant IVP and three other investors injected $30 million into the coffers of Qubole Inc. to aid its mission of simplifying the data crunching framework. The startup’s namesake service provides a graphical interface that enables business users to manipulate ...
What you missed in Cloud: Bold moves
When Amazon Inc. enters a new market, prices almost always start falling, but usually not with nearly the same abruptness that the online security space experienced last week in the wake of the latest addition to its cloud arsenal. Jeff Bezos’ company now offers free digital certificates for every website and application running on its infrastructure-as-a-service platform, ...
Splice Machine bags $9M for its Hadoop-based RDBMS
Talk about old meets new. Splice Machine Inc. raised $9 million from investors this week to fund the development of additional features for its relational database, which follows the tried-and-true formula of structured record management with one notable exception: Information kept inside is not stored on some legacy storage engine originally created decades ago, but ...
Cloudera Director 2.0 takes aim at off-premise Hadoop clusters
Running Hadoop outside the firewall is set to become much easier for customers of Cloudera Inc. thanks to a new iteration of its management automation framework that debuted this week. The release brings a hands-off provisioning feature that can spin up the hardware resources needed for a particular query and deallocate the infrastructure after the ...
Docker joins the unikernel bandwagon with new acquisition
Another year, another new trend entering the industry agenda. Docker Inc. set the wheels in motion this morning with the acquisition of Unikernel Systems Ltd, a U.K.-based startup founded by the original creators of the Xen hypervisor. Its namesake technology holds the potential to kick up the modularization of cloud services several notches. The unikernel is ...
Atlassian enhances its GitHub alternative to support distributed development teams
Atlassian Corp. plc has been at hard at work since hitting the stock exchange in December. The developer productivity powerhouse introduced a new iteration of its help desk software last week that promises to noticeably streamline technical support, and now it’s upping the ante on the code management front with the release of three major ...