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What you missed in Cloud: Collaborative goals
The big players turned the cloud spotlight to collaboration last week with a series of major product updates aimed at easing the distribution of data outside the corporate network. Google provided the initial push after introducing much-needed security controls for its fast-growing file sharing service. Drive for Work now allows the enforcement of different access ...
After initial resistance, OpenStack kingpin Mirantis throws its weight behind Cloud Foundry
In a major turning point for the OpenStack community, Mirantis Inc. has joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation to help support the adoption of the platform-as-a-service stack. The move marks a total reversal of its earlier attitude toward the project. Until not long ago, the company promoted the view that the OpenStack ecosystem will ultimately produce a native ...
Amazon’s new data-hungry D2 instances target Hadoop workloads
Amazon has added a new kind of instance to its public cloud that is specially optimized to handle the massive amounts of data stored and processed in the distributed analytic clusters powering modern decision-making like Hadoop. The batch processing framework splits work across multiple nodes that each hold a portion of the information to allow ...
Running a Google Cloud Platform deployment? There’s an app for that
Google is opening a new front in the competition over the public cloud with the introduction of a mobile monitoring app to complement its infrastructure-as-a-service platform. Google is playing catch-up in this area with Amazon, however, which introduced a mobile companion to its management console more than two years ago. The Google dashboard provides the ...
Alation exits stealth aiming to liberate enterprise data from silos
While some propose radical centralization as the answer to the inaccessibility of disparate information sources in the enterprise, Alation Inc. is offering a much simpler – and practical – approach to the challenge. The startup exited stealth on Tuesday with a new cataloging service that takes the user to the data. The idea behind the technology ...
IPO-bound Apigee extends its programmatic reach into the connected universe
Apigee Inc. is making a detour to the connected universe on its way to the stock exchange with the launch of a new service called LINK that promises to help hook up emerging categories of devices to the digital grid. The task extends far beyond networking, however. Apigee is targeting the complexity and confusion that ...
Ponemon security survey finds threat intelligence is woefully underused
Knowing the enemy has always been important to winning battles, but gaining the right insight at the right time is much easier said than done in the fight against hackers. A new survey of the organizations on the front lines conducted by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Webroot, Inc. reveals that there is still a ...
What you missed in Cloud: Developers, developers, developers
The cloud spotlight returned to the development community last week as the major providers expanded their coding arsenals. Pivotal Software Inc. fired the opening round with the introduction of a landmark update to its middleware stack aimed at simplifying the creation of hybrid applications. The release extends the solution, a commercial version of the open-source ...
SDN evolution: Networking bigwigs unite to move routing up the stack
The networking industry is banding together once again to create an open-source routing framework envisioned as the linchpin for the software-defined environments of tomorrow. The initiative completes the last missing piece of an effort to standardize the paradigm that started two years ago with the same players. Cisco Systems Inc. and IBM established the OpenDaylight ...
ProsperWorks lands $7.5 million to inject its CRM magic into Google Apps
The market for customer relationship management (CRM) in the cloud got a little more interesting today as ProsperWorks Inc. announced that it has raised $7.5 million to boost its CRM technology that integrates tightly with Google’s suite of productivity apps. ProsperWorks seeks to eliminate the need for users to dig up information about contacts and manually ...