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Barely five months after first revealing an alliance to target mobile workers in vertical markets, IBM and Apple are rolling out the first ten of the more than 100 planned applications that the partnership is set to produce. The short time between …
Newly independent Cloud Foundry parts ways with EMC Federation
The industry’s hottest open-source platform-as-a-a-service (PaaS) stack is entering the next stage of its evolution with the inaugurat ion of the Cloud Foundry Foundation, which is officially taking over responsibility for its namesake project from the EMC federation. The launch marks the latest …
Blue-chip investors pile on to DataGravity’s analytical storage
DataGravity Inc. has raised a healthy $50 million in funding from the venerable Accel Partners and several other venture capital giants to promote its hybrid storage arrays. The series is said to be the first in the industry to include built-in data …
Altiscale nets $30 million for purpose-built Hadoop cloud
With the industry’s eyes fixed on the growing rivalry among the top Hadoop distributors, Altiscale Inc. is quietly encroaching into the emerging market for managed implementations of the notoriously complex data-crunching framework. The startup raised an additional $30 million in funding on …
What you missed in cloud: Docker courts the enterprise
Last week saw containers return to the center of attention in the cloud after Docker Inc. unleashed three orchestration tools that make the technology much more viable for enterprise-scale projects. The additions span the bulk of the application management lifecycle, starting with …
Top investors stoke Mesosphere with $36M for data center operating system
Mesosphere Inc. kicked off the week with a $36 million funding round led by Khosla Ventures to push its homegrown spin on the concept of a unified data center operating system. The new platform departs from the traditional virtualization model to provide …
SAP reported to be building massive cloud marketplace
SAP SE hopes to build a massive cloud-based marketplace that will enable organizations to consume software and services as needed on a self-service basis, according to a New York Times report citing senior-level insiders. If true, the plan would add the business …
Microsoft pledges to reunite splintered .NET Framework
A month after revealing plans to open up .NET, Microsoft has provided an early glimpse into the future of the development framework beyond Windows. The company is promising to do away with the legacy barriers that have held back the technology from …
What you missed in Big Data: Accessibility rules
For all the talk of increased automation in data collection and processing, information is only as useful as what the user can make of it. That once again emerged as the dominant theme in the analytics market last week, with several vendors …
Mirantis adds free option to its OpenStack cloud in bid to lure developers
Mirantis Inc. is taking its shot at making OpenStack more accessible to application developers with the addition of a free tier to its hosted distribution that offers a painless way of trying out the capabilities of the buzzed-about cloud operating system. As the …