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Netflix open-sources database cloudification engine in latest community pivot
Netflix Inc. is cementing its place in the open-source ecosystem with the release of yet another internal innovation promising to make the public cloud more viable for running production workloads. The release bumps up the number of projects on the video streaming giant’s GitHub page to a formidable 46. Dubbed Dynomite, Netflix’s latest community contribution ...
What you missed in Cloud: Injecting more public cloud into hybrid computing
OpenStack is supposed to connect the dots between private and public clouds, but that vision is still a long way from reality in the development community, where even trying out the framework requires users to buy their own hardware. That’s a far cry from the low barrier to entry and seamless scalability associated with infrastructure-as-a-service, ...
The software-defined data center gets more connected with IP-equipped disk drives and OpenStack routing
The networking piece of the software-defined data center puzzle is falling into place as the vendor ecosystem re-imagines the way transport capacity is managed and distributed throughout the enterprise stack. Seagate Technology PLC is bringing the revolution to the storage layer with a new series of disk drives that can communicate with applications without going ...
Speed is becoming the deciding factor in data management | #IBMInsight
So far, the main talking point around unstructured data has been the overwhelming size of the load, but now that the industry is shifting its attention from the technology to the use cases, IBM global analytics lead Glenn Finch sees the focus changing to the speed at which information is processed. He dropped by SiliconANGLE’s ...
What you missed in Big Data: collision continues for cloud and analytics
With data analytics requiring the ability to rapidly increase computing capacity in a cost-efficient manner and the cloud providing effectively infinite scalability with a low barrier to entry, the two megatrends make for a match made in heaven. The last week has seen multiple vendors bring that combination deeper into the enterprise, starting with SwiftStack ...
Amazon returns Microsoft’s volley with System Center integration
Hot on the heels of Microsoft Corp. unveiling a landmark expansion of its infrastructure-as-a-service platform, Amazon.com Inc. is sending the ball back into Redmond’s court with a new add-on meant to make it easier for Windows shops to move their on-premise workloads to its rival cloud. The tactic is the same one Amazon employed against ...
Capriza lands $27 million for novel approach to simplifying enterprise apps
For all the talk of consumerization in the enterprise, the mission-critical applications powering core operations at most of the world’s largest organizations today remain as unwieldy and complicated as they were 20 years ago. Enter Capriza Inc., which has has just raised $27 million from some of the biggest names in the venture capital community ...
Study says cloud becoming the norm, rather than exception, in the enterprise
Verizon Communications Inc. didn’t bother to ask respondents whether their organizations have embraced the new way of consuming computing resources in its second annual study on the state of enterprise cloud adoption. The battle has already been decided. Instead, the carrier focused on how they’re going about it – and found that the traditional barriers ...
With new service, DreamHost lets developers dive into OpenStack AWS-style
After two years of testing with a select group of customers, DreamHost is finally ready to make its OpenStack-based cloud available to the broader public – but it’s still officially in beta with no time frame for launch. This presumably means there are still some hiccups to work out with the service, but that shouldn’t be ...
Following rivals, Red Hat intros free cloud package for startups
Responding to similar gestures from rivals, Red Hat Inc. has begun offering up a basket of free goodies to startups that choose OpenShift over the competition. The move follows the open-source stalwart shelling out over $80 million for the UK’s FeedHenry Ltd. to augment the platform-as-a-service suite with mobile development capabilities in a parallel effort ...