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How Citrix fits into the hybrid cloud | #reinvent
Facilitating the seamless movement of workloads among on- and off-premise environments is only the first leg of the journey toward the hybrid cloud, and that creates an opportunity for vendors such as Citrix Systems Inc. to fill the gaps, according to Morgan Gerhart, the senior director of products for the desktop virtualization powerhouse’s cloud and ...
Unified snags theCUBE alumnus Shawn Douglass as CTO
Cloud-based marketing specialist Unified Inc. scored a major strategic victory this week after hiring long-time enterprise technologist Shawn Douglass to lead its product strategy. In his new role, the industry veteran will focus on leveling the playing field for traditional enterprises struggling to adapt the new paradigm of operations in the as-a-service era, a goal ...
NetApp brings its storage OS and backup service to AWS in hybrid cloud push
NetApp Inc. is bringing two of its most strategic software solutions to Amazon Web Services (AWS) in hopes of tapping into the cloud juggernaut’s growing enterprise momentum. The move comes amid faltering demand for the storage vendor’s traditional arrays, which dragged its revenue down 0.5 percent in the third quarter. Organizations have that decline to ...
Amazon flexes its enterprise muscles in second leg of re:Invent 2014
After dedicating the first part of its cloud conference to partners, Amazon.com Inc. is turning the spotlight back inward with a bevy of new services that narrow the management gap with on-premise environments. The retail giant is executing its latest enterprise gambit under the umbrella of the AWS Service Catalog, which promises to give admins ...
Microsoft opens up .NET to expand developer reach beyond Windows
Microsoft has pledged to open-source its .NET development platform in an ambitious push to gain a foothold on the majority of web servers running Linux. The move marks a historic milestone along the Redmond giant’s efforts to shift away from its image as the poster child of proprietary software. Microsoft’s affair with the open-source community ...
LinkedIn’s latest open-source project supercharges Hadoop
LinkedIn Inc. is releasing yet another internally developed framework for Hadoop under an open-source license in a bid to help organizations that can’t afford hiring an army of expensive specialists to fine-tune every detail to make the most of their analytic clusters. The project adds to the already formidable pile of community contributions that the web-scale ...
SAP gets vertical with Internet of Things initiatives for niche services
Venturing ever further beyond its traditional comfort zone, SAP SE is diving into the Internet of Things to look for answers to the new challenges that are springing up across vertical markets in the wake of the proliferation of connected devices. The pivot comes hot on the heels of CTO Quentin Clark marking his first ...
Partners steal the show at Amazon re:Invent 2014
Returning attendees of re:Invent this week may have expected to be greeted with the same turret of new services Amazon.com Inc. unleashed at last year’s conference, but the retail giant has prepared a different surprise for the latest installation of its annual cloud show. The barrage of product announcements is once again upon us, but ...
The more you know, the less you do: Rising security awareness hasn’t changed our behavior
The wave of successful cyber attacks that hit U.S. retailers over the last 12 months has drawn broad attention to the failings of traditional security methodologies, but such individual incidents – however far reaching – don’t necessarily reflect the full scope of the privacy problem facing consumers today. The results of the latest poll from ...
CDOs must dig through organizational dirt to uncover the data gold | #IBMInsight
Chief data officers numbered in the single digits not so long ago, but now the title is popping up every which way, from the financial services market to the healthcare industry and even non-core sectors such as manufacturing and media. IBM’s emerging roles leader Cortnie Abercrombie only sees that trend accelerating as the amount of ...