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What you missed in Big Data: It’s all about access
In the era of real-time analytics, organizations not only require an economic way of storing the vast amounts of information generated by their daily operations but also the ability to quickly access that data whenever the need arises. The latter requirement has proven the more difficult of the two to meet due to the complex ...
What you missed in Cloud: Smarter marketing
Marketing providers managed to hold onto the cloud spotlight last week thanks to a series of major product updates offering to help sales professionals take better advantage of the software-as-a-service model. Demandbase Inc. led the charge with the introduction of a hosted platform for tracking the behavior of customers throughout the different stages of the ...
Study: Enterprises are doubling down on mobile development
Data governance isn’t the only element of corporate technology strategies that is undergoing major changes due to the explosion of smartphones and tablets in the workplace. A newly published survey of 200 enterprise IT executives commissioned by Red Hat Inc. reveals that nine out of ten plan to increase their investment in mobile development next year ...
ClusterHQ brings visual monitoring to Docker storage volumes
Storage is emerging as a key flashpoint for the Docker ecosystem. Merely hours after another startup launched its own spin on the technology ClusterHQ Inc. is rolling out a new service that offers to complement its volume management tool for containers with a hosted monitoring console. It’s promising to make finding technical problems in large deployments much simpler ...
Rancher Labs debuts its own take on persistent storage in Docker
There was no shortage of automation utilities for Docker by the time Rancher Labs Inc. joined the fray earlier this year with $10 million in funding from investors. But they provided little in the way of interoperability, requiring organizations to manually cobble them together into improvised management toolchains that its namesake framework offers to replace ...
Google Container Engine 1.1 doubles down on scalability
The efficiency of Docker lends itself well to the requirements of the massively scalable applications that developers are building in the public cloud, but the benefits don’t come automatically. At least, not yet. Google Inc. is actively working to change the situation with its managed container service, which is receiving a major update this week ...
Apache Cassandra 3.0 touts 50 percent storage savings
Nearly five months to the day after the release of the last major iteration, Cassandra 3.0 is rolling out into general availability with a couple of major improvements promising to help users handle their unstructured data much more efficiently. What they may lack in number, the project’s backers hope the additions will be able to ...
Atlassian seeks to raise $250M in biggest-ever Australian tech IPO
The burgeoning Australian tech scene will soon have another representative on the U.S. stock market according to a newly published SEC filing that confirms Atlassian Pty Ltd.’s long-rumored plans for a public offering. The 13-year-old company hopes to raise as much as $250 million from public investors through the NASDAQ Global Market exchange to help ...
EMC reimagines Isilon NAS for the software-defined storage era
Customers should be relieved to discover that EMC Corp.’s looming merger with Dell Inc. isn’t distracting the leadership team from product development, at least not for the time being. The company is pulling back the curtains on a new iteration of the software powering its Isilon series of network-attached storage arrays today that has been reworked ...
VictorOps raises $10 million to take the hassle out of DevOps
Despite some recent consolidation, the IT monitoring segment remains among the most crowded in the entire enterprise technology world. Numerous providers from big names like New Relic Inc. to emerging startups such as Ruxit Inc. and BigPanda Inc. offer to use the vast amounts of data coming off corporate infrastructure in order to automatically alert of operational problems. ...