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The state of OpenStack’s community, according to the Foundation’s head | #OpenStackSV
Four years after launch, OpenStack is finally starting to see the first user communities forming, according to the head of the industry consortium that oversees the development of the fast-emerging cloud framework. In his latest appearance on theCUBE during a recent community gathering at the Computer History Museum, OpenStack Foundation executive director hailed the trend ...
Three months late and $200M short, IBM-Lenovo server deal finally looks to be closing
Lenovo Group Ltd. is on course to becoming the world’s third largest supplier of commodity servers after regulators signed off on a multi-billion dollar deal that will see it take over IBM’s x86 business. The acquisition is expected to complete on Wednesday, three months behind the expected schedule outlined when the companies first revealed plans ...
Oracle completes cloud pivot by releasing flagship products as services | #OOW14
After years of trying to ignore the trend into non-existence, Oracle Corp is finally giving up on swimming against the cloud computing current and following arch-rivals SAP SE and IBM in making its flagship software products available on a service basis. Now that it’s embraced the new reality of technology deployment, the company has no ...
OpenDaylight gets a lot more open – and functional – with second “Helium” release
Just short of eight months after launch, the OpenDaylight Project is already marking its second lap towards unifying the software-defined networking (SDN) ecosystem with a new major release that fully lives up to the breakneck reputation of community-driven projects. The successor to the original Hydrogen version appropriately takes the name of the next element on ...
Here’s why the intelligence community bought a stake in MemSQL
You probably haven’t heard of the newest database startup in In-Q-Tel’s investment portfolio, but if history is anything to go by, there’s more than a good chance you will. Consisting almost solely of big names such as Cloudera Inc. and MongoDB Inc., the exclusive club of analytics vendors to have acknowledged receiving funding from the ...
Rackspace boasts 99.99% uptime and adds containers to OpenStack with private cloud upgrade
Rackspace Inc. is upping the ante in the race to bring OpenStack into the enterprise mainstream with a new version of its private cloud offering that implements the latest release of the project with a production-grade uptime guarantee and value-added capabilities for large environments. The scope of the update should dispel any remaining doubts that ...
Oracle extends its single pane of glass to the database with Enterprise Manager for MySQL
Oracle Corp. is bringing the capabilities of its unified management and monitoring system to MySQL environments as part of an update meant to make the open-source database more competitive against non-relational alternatives that are better at handling modern analytic workloads. The company hopes to make up what its software lacks in flexibility with more of ...
What you missed in Cloud: Horizontal disruption driving vertical change
History has proven time and again that however saturated, a market will always have room for a new player to disrupt the status quo. On the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) front, Ericsson is betting big that this force of change will emerge in the form of Apcera Inc., a startup that broke into the scene last week ...
What you missed in Big Data: funding the fight against cancer
Now that the analytics craze is settling down, the technology is starting to trickle down from the tech firms and global enterprises at the bleeding edge into more traditional parts of the market like the healthcare sector, where the potential for change is greater than anything we’ve seen so far. And the industry is shifting ...
Hortonworks courts enterprises with Apache Spark endorsement
Hortonworks Inc. is extending its sphere of influence deeper into the Hadoop ecosystem with a sweeping plan to support the Spark in-memory processing framework. The move is the latest in a string of initiatives from the software maker that are designed to make Hadoop more attractive for enterprises. Hortonworks hopes that the initiative will give it ...