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Cloud Foundry mastermind on where PaaS fits in hybrid cloud stacks | #OpenStackSV
The cloud way of doing things doesn’t come naturally for traditional enterprises. Processes must be reviewed, infrastructure replaced and workflows modernized before any tangible change can occur, making the transition a painful process all around that many CIOs choose to put off indefinitely even as the new generation of competitors sails past. But that doesn’t ...
Brocade follows up latest SDN buyout with programmable OpenDaylight controller
Another piece has fallen into place in Brocade Communications Systems Inc.’s software-defined networking plans with today’s introduction of a virtual controller that bundles the latest release of the OpenDaylight Project as a fully supported product ready for enterprise use. The vendor is hailing the new Vyatta Controller as a “keystone” of its emerging programmable networking ...
Microsoft’s cutbacks reach its Silicon Valley brainiac hub
No Microsoft Corp. worker is safe from the massive cutbacks that CEO Satya Nadella unleashed in July as part of his efforts to refocus the company on high-growth markets such as cloud computing and mobile services, the latest layoffs make clear. In a move that appears to reflect a new level of urgency to Nadella’s ...
Google ups video ante against Facebook with “real-time” YouTube analytics
Hot on the heels of Facebook Inc. opening up more metrics about videos uploaded to its site, Google Inc. is upping the ante with the introduction of reporting functionality for content creators on YouTube. The release marks the latest escalation in what is shaping up as a full-blown feature war between the world’s top video ...
What you missed in Cloud: that $8.3BN SAP deal and the latest from the startup scene
Acquisitions are such a frequent occurrence in the public cloud that it’s almost unusual for a week to go by without some established vendor picking up a smaller player to fill a hole in its portfolio that would be more costly to plug internally. Purchases that fall above the financial disclosure threshold are scarcer and ...
What you missed in Big Data: major changes afoot from Hadoop to Oracle
Now in the final lap, the Hadoop distribution race is seeing the remaining contenders become increasingly reluctant to stay in their respective lanes and actively seek outside help to differentiate, an opportunity that traditional vendors are exploiting to try and get back on the analytics saddle. The past week saw Dell Inc. become the newest ...
Cloud vendors inject more security into their networks
In an effort to address one of customers’ most persistent worries about using public cloud infrastructure, IBM has teamed up with AT&T Corp. to provide private connections to its Softlayer data centers. The partnership will give organizations the option of linking up their environments to IBM’s public cloud through AT&T’s NetBond service, thereby matching IaaS kingpin ...
Red Hat shores up mobile strategy with FeedHenry acquisition
Red Hat Inc. has put hybrid computing at the center of its long-term growth strategy, but while the company’s on-premise software portfolio may be second to none in the open-source world, its public cloud lineup lags behind the competition in both adoption and functionality. The Linux giant hopes to narrow the gap with the acquisition ...
If Infor has its way, tomorrow’s enterprise systems will run entirely in the cloud
Infor Inc., the privately-held enterprise juggernaut with a knack for flying under the industry’s radar, is following in the footsteps of its better-known competitors to the public cloud. But while SAP SE and Oracle Corp. are adjusting for the new way of delivering applications one product and strategic acquisition at a time, the stealthy software ...
OpenStackSV: a defining coming-together in the history of the community
The inaugural OpenStack Silicon Valley summit at the Computer History Museum this week has been a long time in the making, and it showed. Although hardly the first event dedicated to the fast-growing project, nor the longest, the half-day conference brought together the leading names from every corner of the community driving the development of ...