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SimpliVity wants to unwind IT’s feedback loop of complexity | #VTUG
Approaching infrastructure in terms of its building blocks raises several major challenges for practitioners, not the least of which is accommodating change. Managing the individual pieces is already difficult enough as it is, but when it comes to moving something around or replacing it, the amount of time and effort needed to keep everything in ...
Amazon launches WorkMail to reach deeper into the office
Amazon is continuing to expand its cloud empire into more parts of the enterprise with a new email service geared specifically toward knowledge workers. The launch matches its two biggest rivals on an important office productivity front as the competition shifts beyond pricing to functionality. The retail-turned-cloud-giant has never had any trouble keeping up with the ...
The green side of the software-defined data center
Born-on-the-Web companies have already initiated a massive industry-wide shift toward virtualization and highly scalable open source platforms, but they’re also have an impact in a less-noticed area: power efficiency. Data centers are among the biggest electricity consumers on the grid, accounting for roughly three percent of energy demand in the US as of 2013. That ...
Forrester: HP a top supplier for private clouds in China
While it hasn’t made too big of a name for itself in the public cloud, the soon-to-split HP is a force to be reckoned with on the global map when it comes to private implementations, according to a new report from Forrester Research. That’s good news for the company as it comes under growing competition ...
Move over, Storm! LinkedIn’s Samza becomes full-fledged member of the Hadoop ecosystem
Four months after Storm, the first true stream processing engine for Hadoop, graduated from incubation at the Apache Software Foundation, Samza has followed suit to become a top-level project. The technology provides a potentially much more attractive option for analyzing real-time data that requires special handling. It’s possible to process that kind of fast-moving information using ...
CloudBees bags $23.5 million to monetize continuous integration buzz
CloudBees Inc. snagged $23.5 million in a fourth round of funding on Tuesday to fuel its newly-found focus on continuous integration, which has become one of the hottest movements in the development community with the rise of the hybrid cloud. The startup has become an unexpected champion of the trend. Former JBoss technologists Sacha Labourey ...
What you missed in Big Data: Moving beyond science project
The analytics ecosystem marked several major milestones along the journey to turn data insights into enterprise reality last week as vendors tore down more of the barriers holding back organizations from unlocking the value of their growing information troves. But it’s the Apache Software Foundation that made the biggest advance after inaugurating Falcon as a ...
Google launches a Docker registry for its public cloud
Google Inc. is continuing to push the envelope for containers with a new native registry service on its public cloud that enables developers to store the software needed for their Docker deployments in a centralized repository to provide for easy access to components. The launch comes hot on the heels of the search giant making ...
Report: Microsoft to revive Hadoop killer in cloud form
Microsoft’s long-discontinued efforts to kill Hadoop have not been in vain after all, according to a new report from veteran Redmond watcher Mary Jo Foley. The homegrown alternative to the batch processing platform that the software giant developed until 2011 supposedly gave rise to an entirely new data crunching framework that is set to launch ...
What you missed in Cloud: Box IPO draws out competitors
The buzz surrounding the long-awaited public offering of file sharing powerhouse Box Inc. drew out the competition last week, which took advantage of the attention to boost their own visibility. Egnyte Inc. made headlines after unveiling a major upgrade to its rival platform that introduced an array of new automation capabilities for managing the flow ...