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What you missed in Cloud: Amazon raises the bar for friends and foes alike
Cloud computing inched another step forward at Amazon.com Inc.’s action-packed re:Invent 2014 conference in Las Vegas last week with the introduction of several landmark new services. Leading the additions is Lambda, a sandbox aimed at allowing developers to easily write and deploy individual functions for handling specific tasks without getting bogged down in managing the ...
Cloudticity founder praises AWS’ compliance features | #reinvent
The spotlight in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) partner ecosystem is fixed on the software makers working to extend the capabilities of the platform, but professional service providers that help customers harness the Amazon cloud are also essential. Cloudticity LLC Founder Gerry Miller appeared on theCUBE at the retail giant’s recent re:Invent conference to share ...
Formation Data promises a more flexible approach to managing storage networks | #reinvent
The typical organization doesn’t maintain more than one data network, but when it comes to storage, there are often numerous disparate silos with different interfaces that are difficult to access and even harder to manage. Formation Data Systems Inc. CEO Mark Lewis returned to theCUBE at Amazon.com Inc.’s recent re:Invent 2014 summit to discuss how his ...
How Citrix fits into the hybrid cloud | #reinvent
Facilitating the seamless movement of workloads among on- and off-premise environments is only the first leg of the journey toward the hybrid cloud, and that creates an opportunity for vendors such as Citrix Systems Inc. to fill the gaps, according to Morgan Gerhart, the senior director of products for the desktop virtualization powerhouse’s cloud and ...
Unified snags theCUBE alumnus Shawn Douglass as CTO
Cloud-based marketing specialist Unified Inc. scored a major strategic victory this week after hiring long-time enterprise technologist Shawn Douglass to lead its product strategy. In his new role, the industry veteran will focus on leveling the playing field for traditional enterprises struggling to adapt the new paradigm of operations in the as-a-service era, a goal ...
NetApp brings its storage OS and backup service to AWS in hybrid cloud push
NetApp Inc. is bringing two of its most strategic software solutions to Amazon Web Services (AWS) in hopes of tapping into the cloud juggernaut’s growing enterprise momentum. The move comes amid faltering demand for the storage vendor’s traditional arrays, which dragged its revenue down 0.5 percent in the third quarter. Organizations have that decline to ...
Amazon flexes its enterprise muscles in second leg of re:Invent 2014
After dedicating the first part of its cloud conference to partners, Amazon.com Inc. is turning the spotlight back inward with a bevy of new services that narrow the management gap with on-premise environments. The retail giant is executing its latest enterprise gambit under the umbrella of the AWS Service Catalog, which promises to give admins ...
Microsoft opens up .NET to expand developer reach beyond Windows
Microsoft has pledged to open-source its .NET development platform in an ambitious push to gain a foothold on the majority of web servers running Linux. The move marks a historic milestone along the Redmond giant’s efforts to shift away from its image as the poster child of proprietary software. Microsoft’s affair with the open-source community ...
LinkedIn’s latest open-source project supercharges Hadoop
LinkedIn Inc. is releasing yet another internally developed framework for Hadoop under an open-source license in a bid to help organizations that can’t afford hiring an army of expensive specialists to fine-tune every detail to make the most of their analytic clusters. The project adds to the already formidable pile of community contributions that the web-scale ...
SAP gets vertical with Internet of Things initiatives for niche services
Venturing ever further beyond its traditional comfort zone, SAP SE is diving into the Internet of Things to look for answers to the new challenges that are springing up across vertical markets in the wake of the proliferation of connected devices. The pivot comes hot on the heels of CTO Quentin Clark marking his first ...