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Microsoft adds business continuity to cloud computing mosaic
Microsoft is continuing along its journey to piece together a hybrid cloud stack at a steady pace, following up the recent introduction of two new Azure-enabled storage arrays with a tuck-in acquisition aimed at positioning the platform-as-a-service as a more viable data protection solution for the traditional enterprise. The software stalwart has gobbled up InMage ...
Salesforce’s bold data play spends $390M for rival RelateIQ
There is no escape from the data analytics tsunami, not even for the world’s top customer relationship management (CRM) firm. Salesforce.com has long offered subscribers access to partner-developed services for uncovering and visualizing insights through its AppExchange marketplace, and provides native reporting capabilities that were recently extended to its application development platform. But in the ...
Late arrival Fujitsu doubles the stakes in the multi-billion dollar cloud investment party
Outpaced and outmaneuvered by nimbler rivals, many of the traditional data center vendors pursuing a slice of the burgeoning public cloud market have found themselves with no other choice but to try and leverage their sheer size – and correspondingly big budgets – to catch up with the race to zero. The latest such slow-moving ...
HP cloud chief shares the inside track on Helion | #HPdiscover
Hewlett-Packard had approached the task of creating a cohesive brand for its cloud portfolio with the typical methodicalness of a corporate giant. Management had the sales organizations put together a list of some 6,000 candidate phrases and present them to the broader workforce, who narrowed down the choice to a small handful from Helion was ...
HP server bosses talk products and strategy | #HPdiscover
Hewlett-Packard Co. is expanding in all directions under the leadership of CEO Meg Whitman, from the OpenStack community through the bleeding edge of electronic component design to, most recently, the high-performance computing market. But amid its aggressive pursuit of new growth opportunities, HP isn’t losing sight of its core server business. Ric Lew and Paul ...
Weekly Cloud review: From OpenStack to AWS
The last few days saw a string of major industry updates spanning the open-source private cloud all the way up to the proprietary public cloud. It was Red Hat that fired the opening shot with the launch of the latest version of its OpenStack distribution, which introduces a host of new features and enhancements aimed ...
What you missed in Big Data: the two-lane highway to the IoT
The task of taming the growing amounts of data pouring in from the connected universe starts with the devices themselves, or at least that’s the position of the Open Interconnect Consortium, a newly established industry group focused on harmonizing the way information is exchanged throughout the Internet of Things. The group currently only consists of ...
Microsoft’s rekindled love-affair with hardware goes deeper with new arrays
Microsoft has stopped being just an operating system company a long time ago, adding a considerable number of notches to its belt of titles over the years: server virtualization vendor, cloud service provider, tablet maker and most recently enterprise storage supplier with the acquisition of StorSimple in November 2012. The deal, the terms of which ...
Avere nabs $20M for the one storage system to unite them all
Extending on-premise storage infrastructure to the public cloud can potentially allow CIOs to have the best of both worlds: take advantage of the pay-as-you-go model to scale even the steepest of usage spikes on a budget, while still keep their most sensitive data within the four walls of their organizations. But “can” doesn’t always mean ...
Tsunami of team ups reaffirms accelerating Hadoop maturity
The burgeoning Hadoop ecosystem looks to be continuing on its aggressive growth trajectory, garnering yet more momentum with a string of new and expanded strategic partnerships marking the latest steps forward in the accelerating trend towards consolidation that Wikibon had identified back in February. The industry seemed to have progressed quite a ways over the ...