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Microsoft’s efforts to bring its formidable software portfolio into the hybrid cloud caught up to SQL Server this week with the preview of a new release that includes functionality for automatically offloading transactional information to its infrastructure-as-a-service platform. The addition sets a …
Google lures cloud customers with promise of making it easy to leave
Google is teaming up with an emerging startup that has created an open-source implemention of the programming interface for its platform-as-a-service stack to give customers the freedom to move their applications off the platform. The move represents a groundbreaking push to address …
Dell’s new storage systems highlight a delicate balancing act
More and more organizations are buying their storage with servers and networking equipment included, but Dell, Inc. is keeping its focus on the majority still scaling their capacity independently with new arrays that bolster both ends of its traditional product range. Taking …
EMC just open-sourced its software-defined storage platform
The biggest bombshell of EMC World 2015 dropped Tuesday morning when the storage giant pledged to release the code for its software-defined management stack under a free license that will enable unrestricted use and modification. The move represents a bold attempt by EMC …
Pivotal augumentes its Hadoop-powered analytics suite for faster queries
Pivotal Software, Inc. is making an appearance at its parent company’s EMC World 2015 summit this week with an updated analytics stack touted as capable of performing certain operations exponentially faster than before. The upgrade is the first major milestone for the …
Nimble throws its flash weight behind SAP’s in-memory HANA database
Organizations that are thinking of buying in to SAP’s in-memory HANA database now have another deployment option courtesy of Nimble Storage, Inc., which is launching a new reference architecture specifically designed to support fast analytic workloads. The announcement comes only a few …
VCE takes hyperconvergence to a new height (literally) with the VxRack
EMC World 2015 is kicking off with a bang with the debut of a new hyperconverged rack from VCE that can pack up to 1,000 commodity compute nodes into an ultra-dense configuration that takes a page directly from the book of the …
CloudGenix bags $25 million to disrupt the WAN router
Barely three weeks after another team of Cisco Systems Inc. veterans raised funding to disrupt how the corporate network is managed, CloudGenix, Inc. is following suit with a new $25 million round of its own to pursue the same goal. The capital …
CoreOS revamps its commercial container service and adds Kubernetes support
The tug-of-war over the future of containers is growing even more intense with the introduction of new collaboration capabilities from CoreOS Inc. aimed at helping developers make more out of its homegrown variation on the emerging virtualization format. The launch will help …
What you missed in Cloud: High-level visibility
The view from the cloud on the people and processes below became much clearer last week after Adobe Systems Inc. teamed up with Microsoft to make customer information stored in its service more accessible from outside the marketing organization, and in particular for …