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A growing number of organizations are setting up private network links between their data centers and infrastructure-as-a-service deployments to improve response times. In an effort to address this trend, VMware Inc. has tapped Equinix Inc. to provide dedicated connections for its vCloud …
Report: Sometimes private clouds are cheaper than public clouds
One of the main reasons why organizations flock to public clouds such as Amazon Web Services is that their pay-as-you-go infrastructure services are seen as more economical than buying expensive on-premises gear. But according to a newly published report from 451 Research, this …
Cisco acquires Worklife to boost Spark team collaboration service
Cisco Systems Inc. is aggressively scaling its collaboration business in response to the widening enterprise adoption of tools like Slack. Today, the networking giant acquired a startup called Heroik Labs Inc. for its popular Worklife service, which is described as a sort of Swiss Army …
What you missed in Big Data: graph processing and machine learning
Most traditional data management products aren’t equipped to handle the increasingly complex and diverse information that is flowing into the corporate network these days. As a result, organizations are turning to new solutions like Neo4j. The widely used graph store, which sets …
What you missed in cloud: Old rivalries are cast aside
As organizations continue moving and more of their internal workloads to the cloud, it’s becoming increasingly important for traditional IT vendors to address the trend. Last week, VMware Inc. joined the bandwagon by announcing plans to make its virtualization offerings available on …
IBM, Google, others challenge Intel with data center performance standard
Three years after open-sourcing the specifications for its POWER chip architecture, IBM Corp. is releasing another homegrown server innovation that could make an even bigger impact on the data center market. OpenCAPI, or Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface by its original name, will become …
IBM ups the ante on cloud storage with new ultra-secure object service
The industry’s leading cloud providers are all investing heavily in security to make their platforms more appealing for risk-averse enterprises. Today, IBM Corp. is upping the ante by adding a new object storage option to its infrastructure-as-a-service portfolio that is specifically designed with …
MParticle raises $17.5 million to help brands process their mobile data
Mobile devices are an essential source of consumer behavior data for marketers, but the incredible volume and variety of the information generated by users can makes it difficult to process. Several analytics providers out there have taken it upon themselves to ease the …
Neo4j 3.1 promises to make large-scale graph processing easier and more secure
Graph databases are finding growing use in enterprise analytics projects thanks to their ability to efficiently keep track of the relationships among records. And no system in the category is more popular these days than Neo4j, which received a major update this morning …
Pure Storage upgrades flagship flash array to petabyte-scale
As the density of solid-state memory continues to increase thanks to innovations like 3D NAND, flash array vendors are able to squeeze more and more capacity into their systems. Today, it’s Pure Storage Inc. that is upping the ante by introducing a new …