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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 ...
IO expands cloud footprint : Teams with CenturyLink
Modular data center specialist IO on Wednesday landed a strategic agreement with CenturyLink’s newly formed Technology Solutions group, which was until recently known as Savvis, to lay the groundwork for the telecommunications provider’s colocation and hosting rollout in Arizona. As part of the deal, CenturyLink is setting up shop in IO’s mammoth Phoenix facility and ...
QLogic jumps on hyperscale bandwagon with FC adapter for OCP servers
Facebook launched the Open Compute Project (OCP) in 2011 with the goal of establishing a set of industry standards for hyperscale computing, a new operating paradigm that does away with proprietary solutions in favor of open source software and off-the-shelf data center equipment. Touted as cost-effective and elastic, the architecture proved highly successful in enabling ...
Microsoft aligns with Facebook to open source hyperscale
At re:Invent last year, Amazon VP James Hamilton gave attendees a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the AWS juggernaut, revealing how his firm leverages hyperspecialized components to achieve operational efficiencies at unprecedented scale. But other than that, the IaaS giant has remained tight lipped about its cloud, not disclosing revenues let alone providing ...
Altiscale debuts industry’s first true Hadoop Cloud
Another day, another startup tackling the challenges of Big Data. Altiscale, the brainchild of former Yahoo chief architect and CTO Raymie Stata, today announced the general availability of Altiscale Data Cloud, its new Hadoop-as-a-Service (HaaS) platform. With only $12 million in Series A funding, Altiscale can’t hope to match the scale or affordability of Amazon ...
EnterpriseDB expands cloud-based Postgres Plus database on AWS
Since Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2010, developers have been moving away from MySQL to community-developed alternatives such as MariaDB and even PostgresSQL, the long-time underdog of the database world. EnterpriseDB founder and CEO Ed Boyajian is an open source veteran; he believes PostgresSQL has finally crossed the chasm to the enterprise mainstream. And Sean Doherty, ...