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Twistlock launches out of stealth to secure the future of containers
The burgeoning container ecosystem grew even bigger this morning after Twistlock exited stealth to tackle what is arguably biggest challenge standing in the way of making the technology ready for production use: security. The ambitious startup believes that the solution starts at the development phase of the application lifecycle. The small footprint of containers has ...
Why the upcoming cloud bursting feature in SQL Server 2016 is a game-changer for databases
Microsoft’s efforts to bring its formidable software portfolio into the hybrid cloud caught up to SQL Server this week with the preview of a new release that includes functionality for automatically offloading transactional information to its infrastructure-as-a-service platform. The addition sets a new bar for relational databases in the on-demand era. The concept of bursting ...
Google lures cloud customers with promise of making it easy to leave
Google is teaming up with an emerging startup that has created an open-source implemention of the programming interface for its platform-as-a-service stack to give customers the freedom to move their applications off the platform. The move represents a groundbreaking push to address the portability issues plaguing the public cloud. While security and other early concerns ...
Dell’s new storage systems highlight a delicate balancing act
More and more organizations are buying their storage with servers and networking equipment included, but Dell, Inc. is keeping its focus on the majority still scaling their capacity independently with new arrays that bolster both ends of its traditional product range. Taking over as the new entry-level model is the SCv2000 at a starting price ...
EMC just open-sourced its software-defined storage platform
The biggest bombshell of EMC World 2015 dropped Tuesday morning when the storage giant pledged to release the code for its software-defined management stack under a free license that will enable unrestricted use and modification. The move represents a bold attempt by EMC to differentiate itself from rival vendors with similar technologies for decoupling capacity and ...
Pivotal augumentes its Hadoop-powered analytics suite for faster queries
Pivotal Software, Inc. is making an appearance at its parent company’s EMC World 2015 summit this week with an updated analytics stack touted as capable of performing certain operations exponentially faster than before. The upgrade is the first major milestone for the spin-off since the release of its core technologies to the open-source ecosystem. The ...
Nimble throws its flash weight behind SAP’s in-memory HANA database
Organizations that are thinking of buying in to SAP’s in-memory HANA database now have another deployment option courtesy of Nimble Storage, Inc., which is launching a new reference architecture specifically designed to support fast analytic workloads. The announcement comes only a few days after one its top competitors certified its rival flash arrays to support the ...
VCE takes hyperconvergence to a new height (literally) with the VxRack
EMC World 2015 is kicking off with a bang with the debut of a new hyperconverged rack from VCE that can pack up to 1,000 commodity compute nodes into an ultra-dense configuration that takes a page directly from the book of the world’s largest data center operators. The launch expands an already aggressive VCE effort ...
CloudGenix bags $25 million to disrupt the WAN router
Barely three weeks after another team of Cisco Systems Inc. veterans raised funding to disrupt how the corporate network is managed, CloudGenix, Inc. is following suit with a new $25 million round of its own to pursue the same goal. The capital infusion will help fuel its efforts to change the way organizations scale their ...
CoreOS revamps its commercial container service and adds Kubernetes support
The tug-of-war over the future of containers is growing even more intense with the introduction of new collaboration capabilities from CoreOS Inc. aimed at helping developers make more out of its homegrown variation on the emerging virtualization format. The launch will help level the playing field against the bigger and better-established competition. That means Docker Inc., ...