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MapR and MongoDB forge landmark Hadoop-NoSQL alliance
Striking a strategic alliance, MapR Technologies Inc. and MongoDB Inc. bring their respective camps of the analytics movement closer together as growing enterprise adoption makes the need for pure-play vendors to provide interoperability with the rest of the data crunching stack ever more urgent. The move is highly beneficial for both firms. As the third biggest ...
Google wants to secure the Internet of Things the open-source way
Google Inc. has released the code for a tool called “nogotofail” thats its engineers have been using to check if network connections are properly encrypted to the open-source community. The move is a continuation of the search giant’s efforts to make the web safer amid the rapid growth in the variety and number of connected ...
Dell consolidates cloud strategy in a major evolution of its software push
Dell Inc. is known more for selling commodity hardware than providing cloud services, but now that it’s been taken private, the company is making serious strides towards reversing – or at least mitigate – the situation in a push to grow margins and escape mounting competition. The tech titan is moving down the same road ...
What comes with containers, managed VMs and enterprise connectivity? In cloud wars, Google ups the ante
Borrowing a page from the Amazon.com Inc. book of running cloud conferences, Google Inc. is kicking off its annual infrastructure-as-a-service summit in San Fransisco with a slew of new features that address the needs of both developers and enterprises. The bulk of the additions focus on making it easier to create and scale applications on ...
Netflix open-sources database cloudification engine in latest community pivot
Netflix Inc. is cementing its place in the open-source ecosystem with the release of yet another internal innovation promising to make the public cloud more viable for running production workloads. The release bumps up the number of projects on the video streaming giant’s GitHub page to a formidable 46. Dubbed Dynomite, Netflix’s latest community contribution ...
What you missed in Cloud: Injecting more public cloud into hybrid computing
OpenStack is supposed to connect the dots between private and public clouds, but that vision is still a long way from reality in the development community, where even trying out the framework requires users to buy their own hardware. That’s a far cry from the low barrier to entry and seamless scalability associated with infrastructure-as-a-service, ...
The software-defined data center gets more connected with IP-equipped disk drives and OpenStack routing
The networking piece of the software-defined data center puzzle is falling into place as the vendor ecosystem re-imagines the way transport capacity is managed and distributed throughout the enterprise stack. Seagate Technology PLC is bringing the revolution to the storage layer with a new series of disk drives that can communicate with applications without going ...
Speed is becoming the deciding factor in data management | #IBMInsight
So far, the main talking point around unstructured data has been the overwhelming size of the load, but now that the industry is shifting its attention from the technology to the use cases, IBM global analytics lead Glenn Finch sees the focus changing to the speed at which information is processed. He dropped by SiliconANGLE’s ...
What you missed in Big Data: collision continues for cloud and analytics
With data analytics requiring the ability to rapidly increase computing capacity in a cost-efficient manner and the cloud providing effectively infinite scalability with a low barrier to entry, the two megatrends make for a match made in heaven. The last week has seen multiple vendors bring that combination deeper into the enterprise, starting with SwiftStack ...
Amazon returns Microsoft’s volley with System Center integration
Hot on the heels of Microsoft Corp. unveiling a landmark expansion of its infrastructure-as-a-service platform, Amazon.com Inc. is sending the ball back into Redmond’s court with a new add-on meant to make it easier for Windows shops to move their on-premise workloads to its rival cloud. The tactic is the same one Amazon employed against ...