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Attendees at Citrix Synergy 2015 were treated to the customary barrage of updates from the virtualization powerhouse yesterday in what marks a major step forward along its journey toward the hybrid cloud. The arguably most significant change is coming to NetScaler, the application …
The rumors were true: Nutanix debuts standalone version of converged stack
Barely three months after word first came out that Nutanix Systems Inc. was working on a hardware-agnostic implementation of the software powering its hugely-popular integrated appliances, the product is making its official debut. Nutanix is seeking to lower the barrier to joining the converged …
Pentaho harnesses Apache Spark for lightning-fast ETL
After a year of development, Pentaho Labs has finally finished adapting the data integration and preparation component of its widely-used business intelligence suite to work with Apache Spark. The integration marks its first major update since being acquired by Hitachi’s storage division …
IBM unleashes powerful new systems for cloud operators
IBM CEO Virginia Rometty may have pulled out of the commodity server business last year, but she’s as committed as ever to competing on the higher end of the compute spectrum. The latest proof of that came this week in the form …
Bracket Computing injects new security functionality into its super-container
Bracket Computing Inc. has unveiled new security capabilities for its namesake virtualization service aimed at enabling risk-averse organizations to take full advantage of what the public cloud has to offer. The release is the startup’s first major update since originally pulling the …
DreamHost’s NFV spin-off unveils a network orchestration service for OpenStack
Akanda Inc., the startup that spun out of DreamHost last year to monetize the network virtualization technology powering its public cloud, has released the first stable version of the software with the promise of helping organizations decouple operations from the underlying infrastructure. …
The ‘OS everywhere’ battle: Canonical has the pieces in place
One of two articles contrasting the strategies Canonical Ltd. and Microsoft are using to seed their respective operating systems across every platform ranging from phone to supercomputer. Read Mike Wheatley’s profile of Microsoft’s strategy here. If you think Microsoft’s much-touted “Windows Everywhere” …
What you missed in Cloud: Blurring the competitive lines
Last week saw the rivalry among the top players in the public cloud flare up once again. Dropbox Inc. led the charge with the release of a major update to its iOS client that aims to help workers access their data faster …
What you missed in Big Data: Tuning into the connected signal
The range of potential applications for analytics in the enterprise grew even wider last week after SnapLogic Inc. rolled out a new pipelining capability that extends the reach of its integration service beyond the corporate back-end to the connected universe. The addition …
Twistlock launches out of stealth to secure the future of containers
The burgeoning container ecosystem grew even bigger this morning after Twistlock exited stealth to tackle what is arguably biggest challenge standing in the way of making the technology ready for production use: security. The ambitious startup believes that the solution starts at …