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HP focuses software-defined data center strategy on user choice | #HPdiscover
The software-defined data center is usually thought of in terms of its components, but Hewlett-Packard Co. is focusing on the big picture, according to the head of worldwide marketing for its key converged infrastructure business. Paul Miller returned to SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE at the hardware titan’s recent customer event in Barcelona to share how that approach ...
Investors fuel DigitalOcean’s rocket with $50M loan guarantee
DigitalOcean Inc. has secured $50 million in debt financing from Fortress Investment Group LLC, a prominent New York hedge fund with north of $60 billion under management, to expand its wildly popular public cloud into new markets. The investment tops months of record growth that saw the startup draw tens of thousands of new users ...
Grow wants to unify sprawling cloud data sources
A new startup called Grow Inc. hit the industry radar on Tuesday after raising $1.5 million in funding to launch a platform that attempts to unify data from different corners of the cloud into a complete view of operations for small- and medium-sized businesses. Such a solution is long overdue. Between the continuous stream of social ...
Alibaba dodges bullet as researchers flag security flaw in its commerce engine
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has patched a major vulnerability in one of its e-commerce portals that exposed tens of millions of users to possible account theft or worse. Almost as alarming as the magnitude of the threat, which was successfully averted, is the ease with which a keen-eyed cybercriminal could have exploited the flaw to ...
First Apple/IBM mobile apps illustrate alliance’s enterprise focus
Barely five months after first revealing an alliance to target mobile workers in vertical markets, IBM and Apple are rolling out the first ten of the more than 100 planned applications that the partnership is set to produce. The short time between the announcement of their landmark partnership and delivery of products shows the urgency ...
Newly independent Cloud Foundry parts ways with EMC Federation
The industry’s hottest open-source platform-as-a-a-service (PaaS) stack is entering the next stage of its evolution with the inaugurat ion of the Cloud Foundry Foundation, which is officially taking over responsibility for its namesake project from the EMC federation. The launch marks the latest chapter in what has been an unusually long journey dating back more than ...
Blue-chip investors pile on to DataGravity’s analytical storage
DataGravity Inc. has raised a healthy $50 million in funding from the venerable Accel Partners and several other venture capital giants to promote its hybrid storage arrays. The series is said to be the first in the industry to include built-in data analytics functionality. That unique approach is the brainchild of industry veterans Paula Long ...
Altiscale nets $30 million for purpose-built Hadoop cloud
With the industry’s eyes fixed on the growing rivalry among the top Hadoop distributors, Altiscale Inc. is quietly encroaching into the emerging market for managed implementations of the notoriously complex data-crunching framework. The startup raised an additional $30 million in funding on Tuesday to expand its efforts. Altiscale is not the first nor the only ...
What you missed in cloud: Docker courts the enterprise
Last week saw containers return to the center of attention in the cloud after Docker Inc. unleashed three orchestration tools that make the technology much more viable for enterprise-scale projects. The additions span the bulk of the application management lifecycle, starting with the initial set-up. Instead of having to individually configure the hosts in their ...
Top investors stoke Mesosphere with $36M for data center operating system
Mesosphere Inc. kicked off the week with a $36 million funding round led by Khosla Ventures to push its homegrown spin on the concept of a unified data center operating system. The new platform departs from the traditional virtualization model to provide a centralized pool of resources that resembles the average consumer device more than ...