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The number of new startups to have entered the container ecosystem recently is now up to three in so many weeks thanks to the launch of Portworx Inc., which is bringing an automated storage service to the table that promises to help …
What you missed in Cloud: Insight-as-a-service
The world’s top public clouds are able to accommodate as much data as an organization can throw at them, but that scalability often proves a double-edged sword when it comes to controlling costs. That challenge that returned to the fore last week after …
VMware targets new DevOps tools at Docker
Alongside the fresh-faced startups showcasing their wares at DockerCon 2015 this morning is VMware Inc. with two new tools aimed at helping developers take better advantage of the wildly popular containerization engine in their projects. Or in the case of the first …
What you missed in Big Data: Optimized knowledge
Machine learning returned to the center of attention last week for the second time in a row after a little-known startup called SigOpt Inc. raised $2 million in funding from two of Silicon Valley’s most prominent investors to put a horizontal twist …
Open-source momentum: Red Hat sees revenue spike 23 percent in first quarter
While the proprietary giants of the enterprise are either struggling to shore up declining revenue streams or trying to shift towards a more open business model, Red Hat Inc. is cruising ahead at a comfortable double-digital growth rate that reached 14 percent …
Tamr raises $25.2 million from HP and friends for its data lake antithesis
Hewlett-Packard is among the main proponents of creating so-called data lakes in the enterprise to consolidate disparate records for more efficient analysis, but that hasn’t stopped its investment arm from backing an emerging startup called Tamr Inc. that’s trying to sell CIOs …
The container front heats up as EMC throws its weight behind Flocker
Somewhat atypically for an open-source project, the first major release of Flocker is rolling out without bringing any major new capabilities to the table. But the update includes something of arguably much greater significance for the long-term prospects of the volume management tool: the support of …
Identity manager anchors VMware’s mobility strategy
Virtualization kingpin VMware, Inc. on Tuesday laid out its enterprise mobile vision, roadmap and partnerships for what VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger calls “business mobility.” “The IT environment is about bridging two worlds of cloud and the local client/server environments to enable business …
Cohesity exits stealth with $70 million to converge secondary storage
Serial entrepreneur Mohit Aron is marking another milestone along his long career this morning following his newest startup’s launch from stealth to change how organizations manage the passive data taking up much of their storage capacity. Its plan for accomplishing that borrows a page straight …
Vera launches metadata kill switch for Office 365
Securing the growing volumes of data that employees keep in cloud-based services such as Office 365 has emerged as one of the greatest challenges for CIOs, but it still pales in comparison to the difficulty of protecting those documents once they move …