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The competitive lines of the public cloud shifted considerably last week as a number of major players repositioned to address their new priorities. VMware made the biggest splash after striking an unexpected alliance with Google to bring four of the latter’s most …
Why buying Oracle’s expensive appliances made sense for Cognizant | #datacenter
With the rise of cloud services, it has become rather difficult to justify buying a traditional on-premise appliance when the same functionality is available from an outside provider at a fraction of the cost. For many smaller companies, the refrigerator-sized systems that …
Datadog bites off $31 million to grow universal monitoring service
The venture capital community’s appetite for cloud management startups shows no sign of abating. Following closely behind a series of investments in cross-provider security vendors, Datadog Inc. has landed $31 million in an oversubscribed round of funding to drive the adoption of …
SimpliVity wants to unwind IT’s feedback loop of complexity | #VTUG
Approaching infrastructure in terms of its building blocks raises several major challenges for practitioners, not the least of which is accommodating change. Managing the individual pieces is already difficult enough as it is, but when it comes to moving something around or …
Amazon launches WorkMail to reach deeper into the office
Amazon is continuing to expand its cloud empire into more parts of the enterprise with a new email service geared specifically toward knowledge workers. The launch matches its two biggest rivals on an important office productivity front as the competition shifts beyond pricing …
The green side of the software-defined data center
Born-on-the-Web companies have already initiated a massive industry-wide shift toward virtualization and highly scalable open source platforms, but they’re also have an impact in a less-noticed area: power efficiency. Data centers are among the biggest electricity consumers on the grid, accounting for …
Forrester: HP a top supplier for private clouds in China
While it hasn’t made too big of a name for itself in the public cloud, the soon-to-split HP is a force to be reckoned with on the global map when it comes to private implementations, according to a new report from Forrester …
Move over, Storm! LinkedIn’s Samza becomes full-fledged member of the Hadoop ecosystem
Four months after Storm, the first true stream processing engine for Hadoop, graduated from incubation at the Apache Software Foundation, Samza has followed suit to become a top-level project. The technology provides a potentially much more attractive option for analyzing real-time data that …
CloudBees bags $23.5 million to monetize continuous integration buzz
CloudBees Inc. snagged $23.5 million in a fourth round of funding on Tuesday to fuel its newly-found focus on continuous integration, which has become one of the hottest movements in the development community with the rise of the hybrid cloud. The startup …
What you missed in Big Data: Moving beyond science project
The analytics ecosystem marked several major milestones along the journey to turn data insights into enterprise reality last week as vendors tore down more of the barriers holding back organizations from unlocking the value of their growing information troves. But it’s the …