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Capriza lands $27 million for novel approach to simplifying enterprise apps
For all the talk of consumerization in the enterprise, the mission-critical applications powering core operations at most of the world’s largest organizations today remain as unwieldy and complicated as they were 20 years ago. Enter Capriza Inc., which has has just raised $27 million from some of the biggest names in the venture capital community ...
Study says cloud becoming the norm, rather than exception, in the enterprise
Verizon Communications Inc. didn’t bother to ask respondents whether their organizations have embraced the new way of consuming computing resources in its second annual study on the state of enterprise cloud adoption. The battle has already been decided. Instead, the carrier focused on how they’re going about it – and found that the traditional barriers ...
With new service, DreamHost lets developers dive into OpenStack AWS-style
After two years of testing with a select group of customers, DreamHost is finally ready to make its OpenStack-based cloud available to the broader public – but it’s still officially in beta with no time frame for launch. This presumably means there are still some hiccups to work out with the service, but that shouldn’t be ...
Following rivals, Red Hat intros free cloud package for startups
Responding to similar gestures from rivals, Red Hat Inc. has begun offering up a basket of free goodies to startups that choose OpenShift over the competition. The move follows the open-source stalwart shelling out over $80 million for the UK’s FeedHenry Ltd. to augment the platform-as-a-service suite with mobile development capabilities in a parallel effort ...
Vast majority of software developers now use open source, Forrester reports
In its eighth and most expansive annual survey of open-source technology adoption in the enterprise development community yet, Forrester Research Inc. has found that the overwhelming majority of software engineers now incorporate free software into their workflows. That proliferation mirrors the growing corporate participation in the movement, which the firm says is already seeing over ...
IBM takes its hybrid cloud to a new level with more interoperability, data services
IBM rolled out a string of new products at its Insight 2014 conference in Las Vegas intended to help organizations make more out of their data wherever it resides, be it on its infrastructure-as-a-service platform or behind the corporate firewall. Laying the foundation for the push is the addition of more configuration options that allow cloud ...
Cognizant exec says all evidence shows enterprises are ready for Hadoop | #BigDataNYC
The enterprise has passed the “science experiment” phase in its journey to adopt Hadoop, and it’s now entering a time when the real value of unstructured data can start coming to bear, according to Gustavo De Leon of Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. The executive dropped by theCUBE at SiliconANGLE’s recent BigDataNYC meet-up to share his ...
Microsoft moves closer to cloud-first strategy with TechEd announcements
At its annual TechEd conference in Barcelona this week, Microsoft took the covers off two sets of upgrades to its core cloud services that together bring CEO Satya Nadella’s vision of a cloud-first product strategy a historic step forward. The first concerns the company’s infrastructure-as-a-service platform, which is now better equipped to host traditional enterprise applications. ...
Oracle analytics exec says Big Data market is coming his firm’s way | #BigDatNYC
With the evolution of Hadoop, the industry has shifted its attention from the technical details under the hood to ways in which the batch processing platform can help address tangible business problems. The vendor community is now adjusting by assembling technology components into solutions in a shift that Oracle Corp.’s Dan McClary sees as validation ...
SwiftStack raises $16 million to mobilize OpenStack for unstructured data
OpenStack continues to draw interest from the venture capital community, with SwiftStack Inc. raising $16 million on Monday to make the cloud operating system more attractive for ingesting the vast amounts of unstructured data pouring into the corporate network. The funding comes days after Mirantis Inc. closed a record-breaking $100 million round to drive the adoption ...