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DreamHost’s NFV spin-off unveils a network orchestration service for OpenStack
Akanda Inc., the startup that spun out of DreamHost last year to monetize the network virtualization technology powering its public cloud, has released the first stable version of the software with the promise of helping organizations decouple operations from the underlying infrastructure. It has a high bar to meet from the outset. While not packing ...
The ‘OS everywhere’ battle: Canonical has the pieces in place
One of two articles contrasting the strategies Canonical Ltd. and Microsoft are using to seed their respective operating systems across every platform ranging from phone to supercomputer. Read Mike Wheatley’s profile of Microsoft’s strategy here. If you think Microsoft’s much-touted “Windows Everywhere” strategy is aggressive, a closer look at what Canonical Ltd. has been doing ...
What you missed in Cloud: Blurring the competitive lines
Last week saw the rivalry among the top players in the public cloud flare up once again. Dropbox Inc. led the charge with the release of a major update to its iOS client that aims to help workers access their data faster when away from the office. Focusing mainly on increasing the visibility of important ...
What you missed in Big Data: Tuning into the connected signal
The range of potential applications for analytics in the enterprise grew even wider last week after SnapLogic Inc. rolled out a new pipelining capability that extends the reach of its integration service beyond the corporate back-end to the connected universe. The addition promises to help organizations automate the collection of data from the multitutes of ...
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 ...