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SAP reported to be building massive cloud marketplace
SAP SE hopes to build a massive cloud-based marketplace that will enable organizations to consume software and services as needed on a self-service basis, according to a New York Times report citing senior-level insiders. If true, the plan would add the business software giant to the growing ranks of enterprise vendors trying to put their ...
Microsoft pledges to reunite splintered .NET Framework
A month after revealing plans to open up .NET, Microsoft has provided an early glimpse into the future of the development framework beyond Windows. The company is promising to do away with the legacy barriers that have held back the technology from the new era of multi-platform applications, and developers say it can’t move quickly ...
What you missed in Big Data: Accessibility rules
For all the talk of increased automation in data collection and processing, information is only as useful as what the user can make of it. That once again emerged as the dominant theme in the analytics market last week, with several vendors making significant progress in their efforts to make insights more accessible to enterprise ...
Mirantis adds free option to its OpenStack cloud in bid to lure developers
Mirantis Inc. is taking its shot at making OpenStack more accessible to application developers with the addition of a free tier to its hosted distribution that offers a painless way of trying out the capabilities of the buzzed-about cloud operating system. As the leading – and one of the best-funded – players in the ecosystem, the company ...
HP takes analytics to the cloud in comeback to IBM’s Watson
Hewlett-Packard Co. hopes to attract more application developers to its data analytics platform with a cloud-based release that makes features previously only available under expensive licenses available for consumption on-demand. The move is unmistakably a jab at IBM, which has been pursuing a similar strategy with Watson (whose freemium application officially launched in beta today). ...
Docker aims its first commercial products at enterprise admins
Barely a month after Docker Inc. CEO Ben Golub first revealed plans to introduce container management software in an exclusive interview with SiliconANGLE, the cloud’s hottest startup has delivered with the release of no fewer than three new operations tools. The launch makes the new style of virtualization more practical at large scale. The first addition is ...
ThreatStream snags $22 million for security early warning system
Startup ThreatStream Inc. bagged $22 million in fresh funding on Wednesday to develop its Big Data-driven approach to information security. The Redwood-based team launched last year and hit the industry radar this January after appointing Hugh Njemanze as CEO. The executive is one of the most prominent figures in the security industry, having previously co-founded ...
Juniper leapfrogs rivals with first commodity switch
Juniper Networks Inc. has pulled the curtains back on a commodity switch for hyperscale data centers that marks a historic shift in the old guard’s approach toward the software-defined wave sweeping through the enterprise today. The move is not entirely unexpected, however. Incumbent vendors have steadily been warming up to the new commodity-based approach to ...
Weaveworks raises $5M in quest to manage Docker sprawl
The team behind one of the most promising technologies in the Docker ecosystem celebrated a $5 million capital infusion from a venerable venture capital firm by re-branding yesterday and pledging to push Docker into the enterprise mainstream. U.K.-based Weaveworks Inc. (formerly Zettio Ltd.) is the brainchild of Alexis Richardson and Matthias Radestock, the engineers behind the ...
HP taps Chef to help fill in software-defined data center gaps
With the industry’s attention focused on the new storage and converged infrastructure solutions introduced at its annual Discover conference, Hewlett-Packard Co. has slipped in a landmark partnership with Chef Inc. that checks another box on its software-defined data center to-do list. The company formerly known as Opscode Inc. re-branded itself late last year to the name ...