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Red Hat extends cloud management stack to Microsoft’s Azure
The decades-old animosity between Microsoft Corp. and Red Hat Inc. is now officially in the past following the release of a new version of the Linux distributor’s cloud orchestration platform that features support for Azure. The addition completes the first leg of the partnership that the two technology giants announced last month to integrate their ...
IBM opens up QRadar to let customers get creative about security
While IBM Corp.’s grandiose investments in cloud services and data processing may grab all the headlines, network protection is emerging as an equally important pillar of chief executive Virginia Rometty’s growth plan. The company is rolling out a new iteration of its QRadar Security Intelligence Platform today that promises to help defend corporate infrastructure against hackers ...
EMC extends open-source ambitions to the server side with new RackHD project
Although its merger into Dell Inc. is still about a year from completion, EMC Corp. is already starting to redraw the competitive lines of the data center. The company took another step outside its home turf in the storage layer today with the launch of a new open-source project called RackHD that aims to provide a ...
Tintri adds another all-flash array to seize exploding enterprise demand
Against the backdrop of all-flash array vendor Pure Storage Inc. reporting a 167 percent revenue increase in its third quarter earnings call, Tintri Inc. is making a move to seize some of that growth with the introduction of a new low-end entry into the fray that targets budget-minded buyers. The T5040 is the third addition ...
Confluent’s Apache Kafka distro gets a lot more secure
It’s little wonder the open-source ecosystem has developed a reputation for moving fast. Merely three weeks after the latest release of Apache Kafka hit general availability, Confluent Inc. is rolling out an updated version of its commercial distribution that implements all the major features introduced in the new iteration. Standing out in particular are the ...
InterModal Data debuts disaggregated storage platform for hyperscale workloads
The latest startup to have taken up the mission of bringing on-premise enterprise infrastructure up to par with the operational efficiency of the world’s largest clouds is InterModal Data Inc., which is launching a new kind of storage platform this morning that promises to greatly improve resource utilization. It’s inspired by the disaggregated rack architecture ...
SAP HANA SP11 plows through documents and geospatial data
HANA may organize data in rows and columns like traditional relational systems, but that’s not stopping SAP SE from going after customers’ unstructured information with the new release of the in-memory platform that debuted this morning. Service Pack 11 introduces enhanced natural language processing functionality for extracting details from documents and geospatial analytics to help ...
OneLogin takes the single sign-on fight behind the firewall with Cafésoft buy
Reach is the name of the game in the single sign-on market. Hot on the heels of a key competitor expanding to traditional corporate desktops, OneLogin Inc. is upping the ante and extending its namesake authentication service to backend infrastructure with the purchase of San Diego-based Cafésoft Inc. for an undisclosed amount. The outfit originally ...
What you missed in Big Data: The customer is king
With chief marketing officers expected to outstrip the technology spending of their peers in the IT department by the 2017, it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that vendors are paying more attention to analytics, which has emerged as one of the hottest items on the shopping list. Microsoft Corp. joined the fray last week with ...
What you missed in Cloud: Developers, developers, developers
The cloud spotlight turned back to developers last week after Atlassian Pty. Ltd. upgraded its popular Bitbucket project hosting solution to allow for code to be deployed on infrastructure-as-a-service platforms directly through the native interface. The enhancement marks what is likely the last major product update from the company before its long-anticipated public offering in ...