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Panzura taps Google Maps to simplify life for storage admins
The latest example of consumer technology finding use behind the firewall comes from Panzura Inc., which has turned to Google Maps in order to ease the maintenance of geographically distributed storage environments powered by its file system. The new CloudFS Console introduced for the platform today layers operational data over charts from the location service ...
Report: Thousands to be let go from IBM’s services biz this week
It’s shaping up to be a tough week for the rank and file of the enterprise technology world. A day after VMware Inc. confirmed the 800 layoffs insiders have been warning about since last week, a new leak from IBM Corp. suggests that the employees at its Global Services (GTS) business should start bracing themselves ...
Microsoft launches on-premise Azure Stack into preview
The competition among the world’s top cloud providers is moving behind the firewall. The latest escalation came this morning after Microsoft Corp. debuted the first public release of Azure Stack, a piece of software that enables organizations to replicate its infrastructure-as-a-service platform in their private data centers. The operating conditions of an on-premise implementation are the ...
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 ...