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What Microsoft’s entry into the Open Compute Project means for hyperscale
Microsoft has long dabbled in consumer electronics, starting with computer accessories in the ‘80s and eventually working its way up to consoles and mobile devices, but Redmond never ventured into the data center hardware market. That is, until this week. The software titan took the industry by surprise with the decision to donate its server ...
HP tightens HAVEn integration with IDOL 10.5
Hewlett-Packard is pushing ahead in the race to build the first truly enterprise-ready Big Data platform with a new version of IDOL that aims to make it easier than ever to process information from different types of sources. The core capabilities of the search tool, notably sentiment analysis, clustering and entity extraction, can now be ...
Progress on Open Compute, but Amazon continues to set the pace | #OCPSummit
This week’s Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit in San Jose attracted some of the industry’s most prominent figures, including none other than Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, to set out a vision for hyperscale computing, an emerging paradigm that holds the potential to break Amazon’s iron grip on the cloud. But while the path has already ...
WANdisco launches access control solution for Subversion + Git
WANdisco is expanding its already formidable software configuration management (SCM) portfolio with a new access control solution for Subversion and Git. The offering is geared towards enterprise customers that have to deal with both systems being used by their developers, a scenario that until now left IT departments with no choice but to implement two ...
Open Compute enabling top vendors to transition hyperscale wonders to the enterprise
In the latest installment of SiliconANGLE’s Cube Conversations series, Wikibon Senior Analyst Stu Miniman discusses the highlights of this week’s Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit and shares his take on the latest and greatest in hyperscale, a paradigm-shifting approach to data center design. The Open Compute Project was created by Facebook in April 2011 to ...
Huddle extends enterprise collaboration cloud for Office users
Microsoft’s dominance in the productivity software market has made it a natural target for Huddle, a London-based startup with big ambitions for enterprise collaboration. Last September, the company paved SharePoint users a migration path to the cloud with a mobile-friendly connector. Today, Huddle is announcing that it’s continuing the offensive with new Office integration that enables workers ...
Express Metrix helps SMBs decrease software audit fears
Amazon and Salesforce envision a future without restrictive licensing agreements and cost-prohibitive software upgrades, but the industry still has a long way to go before realizing that ambition. IT organizations have their feet firmly planted in the present. Even as more processes are being outsourced to the cloud, the CIO still must maintain full visibility ...
EMC cuts jobs after solid Q4
EMC plans to let approximately 1,000 workers go as part of a restructuring plan that will kick off later this quarter, according to a Wednesday filing with the SEC. The layoffs are expected to cost the storage stalwart somewhere between $100 million to $120 million, mostly in cash. Despite the job cuts, EMC intends to ...
Fusion-io strikes new OEM partnerships for hyperscale servers
The buzz around Facebook’s Open Compute Project (OCP) is growing as more organizations, particularly large enterprises, move to hyperscale as part of the industry-wide push for cost-effectiveness in storing and processing vast amounts of unstructured data. The architecture, pioneered by the social media giant and other web-scale companies such as Google and Amazon, is characterized ...
Cloud startup Bitglass launches privacy-centric security platform
Cloud apps are taking off in the enterprise thanks to increased demand for business agility and heightening frustration with traditional sign-off procedures. But, while users may see immediate benefits from bypassing their organization’s antiquated controls, their CIOs are left with a governance nightmare that’s perpetuated by a lack of visibility and central enforcement capabilities. Enter ...