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Now AppDynamics wants to help you monitor your containers, too
Organizations looking for operational tools to help support their emerging container use cases now have another option to choose from on the monitoring front courtesy of AppDynamics Inc., which has extended its namesake performance tracking service to support the fast-growing virtualization format. The move takes aim at what is shaping up as a potentially massive ...
Percolate bags $40 million to horn in on Salesforce and Oracle’s marketing territory
Everybody loves an underdog, even in the world of corporate marketing. Percolate Industries, Inc. hopes to turn that to its advantage with $40 in fresh capital from investors that will be spent trying to beat the giants of cloud-based engagement at their own game, an effort that has proven surprisingly successful so far. MasterCard, Inc., ...
New exploits show SAP less secure than previously thought
After Heartbleed and POODLE, organizations relying on software from SAP SE to power their operations now have a new exploit to worry about that poses a potentially even bigger threat. The vulnerability lies in the way business data is handled when traveling across the network. The German business intelligence powerhouse employs a proprietary implementation of ...
IBM brings its analytics clout to multi-channel marketing
IBM is following the competition onto the data-driven marketing bandwagon with the introduction of new cloud services promising to provide a centralized way of tracking and acting upon buying patterns across online channels. The launch takes aim at one of the biggest challenges in the trade. The proliferation of new avenues through which to communicate ...
Gartner pours cold water on Hadoop’s party with pessimistic adoption survey
The discrepancy that so often exists between the hype and reality of emerging technologies has caught up to Hadoop, according to a new study from Gartner, Inc. that offers a current view into the state of adoption among the traditional enterprise crowd. The picture is not pretty. Only about one-quarter of the 284 technology and ...
Citrix revamps its hybrid cloud arsenal at Synergy 2015
Attendees at Citrix Synergy 2015 were treated to the customary barrage of updates from the virtualization powerhouse yesterday in what marks a major step forward along its journey toward the hybrid cloud. The arguably most significant change is coming to NetScaler, the application delivery software that ties the on- and off-premise components of the package together. ...
The rumors were true: Nutanix debuts standalone version of converged stack
Barely three months after word first came out that Nutanix Systems Inc. was working on a hardware-agnostic implementation of the software powering its hugely-popular integrated appliances, the product is making its official debut. Nutanix is seeking to lower the barrier to joining the converged era with what is essentially an onboarding tool that wary CIOs can use ...
Pentaho harnesses Apache Spark for lightning-fast ETL
After a year of development, Pentaho Labs has finally finished adapting the data integration and preparation component of its widely-used business intelligence suite to work with Apache Spark. The integration marks its first major update since being acquired by Hitachi’s storage division earlier this year for a reported $500 to $600 million. The landmark deal ...
IBM unleashes powerful new systems for cloud operators
IBM CEO Virginia Rometty may have pulled out of the commodity server business last year, but she’s as committed as ever to competing on the higher end of the compute spectrum. The latest proof of that came this week in the form of beefy new machines that push the envelope on processing density. The star ...
Bracket Computing injects new security functionality into its super-container
Bracket Computing Inc. has unveiled new security capabilities for its namesake virtualization service aimed at enabling risk-averse organizations to take full advantage of what the public cloud has to offer. The release is the startup’s first major update since originally pulling the curtains back on the technology last October. The Bracket Computing Cell encapsulates applications in ...