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Weekly Cloud Review: IT automation takes the limelight
Threatened by AWS, traditional enterprise vendors are pushing OpenStack in a bid to secure a slice of tomorrow’s IT market. IBM, a staunch supporter of the project, recently teamed up with with an emerging systems integrator to make open source private clouds more transparent – and much more viable at scale. Big Blue’s SoftLayer division ...
theCUBE Conversations: Broadcom strategy chief discusses the network
Emerging technologies are reshaping the enterprise data center, consolidating compute and storage while putting more strain on the network. Greg Scherer, the vice president of server and storage strategy at Broadcom, appeared on the first episode of theCUBE Conversations to discuss IT disruption with Wikibon’s Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman. Scherer kicks off the segment ...
Google back in the docket after Oracle appeals in Java copyright case
Oracle sued Google in 2010 for supposedly misusing its Java interfaces to create Android, an allegation that would be dismissed two years later by a California court. U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled that software APIs are not copyrightable, saving Google’s mobile business and removing the Sword of Damocles hanging over the open source community. ...
Stealth startup Nurego gets star-studded support, $2M in funding
The Silicon Valley startup scene has been buzzing with activity these past few days, and now it’s Seattle’s turn to make some headlines. A local team of industry veterans just netted $2 million in funding to help cloud companies make sense of their massive data sets, an SEC filing picked up by GeekWire reveals. The ...
Spinoff startup Trufa raises $4.5M for real-time analytics
Trufa, the newest player on the Big Data scene, announced this week that it has received $4.5 million in Series C funding from prominent venture capital firm Accel Partners. Enterprise software veterans Paul Wahl and Alex Ott are joining the company’s board. Freshly spun off from VMS, a Walldorf, Germany-based provider of SAP outsourcing services, ...
Dell refreshes converged management platform
Hardware juggernaut Dell is upping the ante on data center management with a new release of Active Systems Manager. The update marks the latest milestone in the company’s effort to cement its foothold in the converged infrastructure space, a fast growing market fueled by increasing demand for simplicity and sustainable scalability. Originally introduced in October ...
HP embraces freemium model amidst global streamlining effort
As CEO Meg Whitman closes in on enterprise services, Hewlett-Packard is venturing beyond familiar ground in pursuit of new revenue opportunities. On Tuesday the company pulled the curtains back on Propel, a new freemium cloud offering designed to make IT resources more accessible to end-users. Propel is a cross-platform ITSM solution that can deliver services ...
Mirantis and IBM team for OpenStack testing
OpenStack is a tough sell in the enterprise. Despite strong industry support, the platform is still immature and suffers from a lack of transparency about how it differentiates itself from VMware vCloud and Amazon Web Services. Mirantis and IBM are hoping to change that with Rally, a new “benchmark-as-a-service” solution that provides unprecedented visibility into ...
DataSift nets $42M for social analytics
DataSift announced on Tuesday that it has raised $42 million in Series C financing to expand into new markets and accelerate the development of its flagship platform, a social media analytics solution used by more than 1,000 companies in 40 countries. DataSift‘s offering lets marketers keep track of consumer sentiment, brand perception and new revenue ...
Zenoss expands into Microsoft ecosystem with new ZenPacks
Unified monitoring provider Zenoss is extending its flagship Service Dynamics suite with two new plug-ins for Windows Server and Azure environments. In a release, Zenoss cited Bloomberg projections that Azure deployments will surpass $1 billion in sales this year thanks to a 20 percent adoption rate among companies that use cloud services. The vendor is ...