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What you missed in Big Data: Storage first and foremost
The prerequisite to tapping the vast amounts of data coming off the connected universe is an economic way to store that information while the analysis performed, which is what earned a startup called Scality Inc. $45 million in funding last week. The investment caps off two years of tremendous growth that saw sales of its ...
What you missed in Cloud: Hybrid flexibility
The hybrid cloud model became a lot more appealing last week after Google Inc. officially launched its container service into general availability following nearly a year in beta testing. Organizations can now seamlessly move containerized workloads from their on-premise infrastructure to its cloud platform and vice versa as their requirements change. But the ability to physically ...
“vCloud Air is pretty much dead” as executives flee VMware
A new rumor making rounds in the industry suggests that VMware Inc. has drastically scaled back development on its public cloud just over two years after its launch and may soon pull the cord altogether. The revelation comes amid what is shaping up as most significant wave of executive departures since co-founders Diane Greene and ...
IBM assimilates Blue Box’s managed OpenStack service into its public cloud
IBM Corp.’s emerging infrastructure-as-a-service platform now has another major feature over the competition: the ability for organizations to host the off-premise ends of their OpenStack hybrid cloud in its data centers. The launch of the service comes less than 90 days after it absorbed the underlying technology through the purchase of Blue Box Group Inc. ...
SimpliVity reboots its hyperconverged stack for globally distributed enterprises
The all-in-one proposition of hyperconverged systems lends itself particularly well to remote offices that can’t justify the complexity of a traditional disaggregated setup, which is the use scenario that SimpliVity Inc. is targeting with the new iteration of its platform that debuted this morning. It’s touted as the most significant product update since its launch ...
Researchers at MIT develop mathematically perfect file system
In file systems as in life, the last mile is always the hardest. So hard, in fact, that it has taken a full sixty years from the advent of the first hierarchical data access scheme until the announcement of the first fully crash-tolerant file system this week, much to the delight of consumers and business continuity professionals ...
HP debuts industry’s cheapest all-flash array
Flash storage prices are passing another milestone on the aggressive downward course Wikibon charted out earlier this year with the introduction of a new array from Hewlett-Packard Co. hailed as the most economic of its kind yet. For a starting price of a mere $19,000, the quad-node 3PAR StorServ 8000 provides three terabytes of usage ...
Catalogic injects more automation into its copy management platform
The fight against data sprawl in the enterprise received a major boost this morning after Catalogic Software Inc. unveiled a landmark update for its copy management platform that promises to help administrators identify and eliminate redundant files much more efficiently. And in more parts of their environments, too. At the center of ECX 2.2 is ...
Hortonworks buys the startup behind the NSA-developed Apache NiFi to target IoT data
Hortonwork Inc.’s latest acquisition is bound to make some waves in the industry. The purchase follows the same pattern as the previous two, a small startup that has been in operation for barely a few quarters, but the technology Onyara, Inc. is commercializing dates back nearly a decade to the National Security Agency. Development on what ...
Intel pumps $20 million into BlueData to promote Hadoop virtualization
The complexity often cited as one of the main factors behind the slow adoption of Hadoop in the enterprise encompasses not only the difficulty of putting the analytics framework to use but also the challenges involved in setting up the supporting infrastructure below. That’s what BlueData Inc. hopes to address with the help of $20 ...