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MuleSoft Inc. is rolling out a major upgrade to its popular application connectivity service that takes aim at one of the most overlooked challenges in enterprise mobility: hooking up applications running on employee devices to the back-end infrastructure storing the data that …
Egnyte moves to steal Box’s analytics thunder
Days before enterprise file-sharing kingpin Box Inc. is due to hit the stock exchange, one of its biggest rivals is rolling out new analytics functionality as part of a deliberately timed pivot aimed at taking the competitive fight beyond collaboration. The move …
What CIOs can learn from web startups running containers in production
Gartner Inc. recently brought the gaping functional gaps between containers and conventional virtualization into the spotlight with a widely-covered report that concluded that the average organization is still better off using a hypervisor than a container for most workloads. That isn’t stopping …
Why software-defined networking matters | #VTUG
Software-defined networking promises the freedom to provision transport capacity through a consistent programming interface instead of individually configuring the underlying components, but details of how that will translate into practice for the average organization have been relatively scarce. Joe Onisick of Cisco …
Apache Falcon gets top-level status, filling gap in Hadoop ecosystem
Hadoop marked another milestone along its breakneck evolution on Monday when Falcon, one of the most promising technologies in the upstream ecosystem, exited incubation to become a top-level project of the Apache Software Foundation. The news comes just a few short months after the …
Canonical ushers Ubuntu into the Internet of Things
Canonical Ltd. is making the container-centric edition of its popular Ubuntu Linux distribution available for connected devices in a major expansion of its existing mobile efforts into the Internet of Things. Ubuntu Core made its original debut almost four years ago with …
What you missed in Cloud: One-upsmanship
The public cloud saw a spike in activity last week as both emerging providers and established names stepped up their fight over infrastructure spending amid growing interest from new types of buyers. Google provided the initial push with the release of a service …
What you missed in Big Data: VCs and IPOs
It’s investors who set the pace for analytics last week as no fewer than three database startups separately raised additional funding to step up their efforts toward changing the way enterprises manage their vast information troves. Basho Inc. kicked off the funding …
China’s Baidu builds its own supercomputer to beat Google at image search
Baidu, Inc. is upping the ante in its fight with Google for image-recognition supremacy with what it hails as a record-setting computer vision system capable of recognizing different variations of the same image better than any other artificial intelligence on the planet. …
Google cloud gains ground in public sector with Australian pilot
Google appears to have the inside track on a pilot cloud computing contract with the Australian Department of Defence, giving it an important victory in the race among cloud service providers to tap into public sector spending worldwide. Responding to a legislator’s …