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The big players turned the cloud spotlight to collaboration last week with a series of major product updates aimed at easing the distribution of data outside the corporate network. Google provided the initial push after introducing much-needed security controls for its fast-growing …
After initial resistance, OpenStack kingpin Mirantis throws its weight behind Cloud Foundry
In a major turning point for the OpenStack community, Mirantis Inc. has joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation to help support the adoption of the platform-as-a-service stack. The move marks a total reversal of its earlier attitude toward the project. Until not long ago, …
Amazon’s new data-hungry D2 instances target Hadoop workloads
Amazon has added a new kind of instance to its public cloud that is specially optimized to handle the massive amounts of data stored and processed in the distributed analytic clusters powering modern decision-making like Hadoop. The batch processing framework splits work …
Running a Google Cloud Platform deployment? There’s an app for that
Google is opening a new front in the competition over the public cloud with the introduction of a mobile monitoring app to complement its infrastructure-as-a-service platform. Google is playing catch-up in this area with Amazon, however, which introduced a mobile companion to …
Alation exits stealth aiming to liberate enterprise data from silos
While some propose radical centralization as the answer to the inaccessibility of disparate information sources in the enterprise, Alation Inc. is offering a much simpler – and practical – approach to the challenge. The startup exited stealth on Tuesday with a new cataloging …
IPO-bound Apigee extends its programmatic reach into the connected universe
Apigee Inc. is making a detour to the connected universe on its way to the stock exchange with the launch of a new service called LINK that promises to help hook up emerging categories of devices to the digital grid. The task …
Ponemon security survey finds threat intelligence is woefully underused
Knowing the enemy has always been important to winning battles, but gaining the right insight at the right time is much easier said than done in the fight against hackers. A new survey of the organizations on the front lines conducted by the …
What you missed in Cloud: Developers, developers, developers
The cloud spotlight returned to the development community last week as the major providers expanded their coding arsenals. Pivotal Software Inc. fired the opening round with the introduction of a landmark update to its middleware stack aimed at simplifying the creation of …
SDN evolution: Networking bigwigs unite to move routing up the stack
The networking industry is banding together once again to create an open-source routing framework envisioned as the linchpin for the software-defined environments of tomorrow. The initiative completes the last missing piece of an effort to standardize the paradigm that started two years …
ProsperWorks lands $7.5 million to inject its CRM magic into Google Apps
The market for customer relationship management (CRM) in the cloud got a little more interesting today as ProsperWorks Inc. announced that it has raised $7.5 million to boost its CRM technology that integrates tightly with Google’s suite of productivity apps. ProsperWorks seeks …