Maria Deutscher
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Few trends have adapted as well from the consumer world to the enterprise as application marketplaces. Dell recently rolled out a provider-neutral catalog of cloud services, Salesforce.com Inc. is launching a selection of partner-developed extensions to its Desk.com platform and now HP …
IDC says one-third of IT equipment spending now goes to cloud deployments
Nearly one-third of combined worldwide server, disk storage, and Ethernet switch infrastructure spending in the third quarter of 2014 came from cloud deployments, with payouts split nearly evenly between public and private clouds, according to a recent report from International Data Corp. …
Flaw in single server opened door to record bank cyber-heist
A single mis-configured server has been identified as the attack vector in the historic breach that saw the still-unidentified culprits steal information belonging to 83 million JPMorgan Chase & Co. customers over the summer, according to The New York Times. The revelation …
Symantec boosts OpenStack Foundation even as it sues some members
The OpenStack Foundation accepted Symantec Corp. into its exclusive club of Gold-level sponsors this week, citing its substantial contributions to the cloud operating system. The move marks a major step forward for the security vendor’s involvement with the project, with which it …
HP thinks it’s got a better way to run Hadoop | #HPdiscover
Running Hadoop on converged infrastructure is not a particularly attractive proposition. The massive workloads that the data-crunching framework is designed to handle require an entirely different ratio of compute and storage resources than the typical enterprise application demands. That balance can be …
Judge refuses to lift Autonomy albatross from HP’s neck
The botched acquisition of Autonomy Corp., keeps coming back to haunt Hewlett-Packard Co.. Three years and a leadership change after plunking down $11.7 billion for the British analytics provider, HP has hit another legal stumbling block as a U.S. District Judge on Friday rejected …
Oracle gobbles up Datalogix as it courts marketers with cloud services
Oracle gave itself an early Christmas present on Monday with the acquisition of Datalogix Inc., a top supplier of consumer spending information for use in analytics. No financial details were disclosed for the deal, which is the latest in a string of …
Why rapid tech change demands better internal consensus-building | #HPDiscover
When an enterprise sets out to streamline operations or pursue new business opportunities, technology considerations often jump to the top of the agenda, edging out the important organizational challenges that need to be addressed, said Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Chris Coggrave in a recent appearance …
What you missed in Cloud: Microsoft ups the ante against competitors
Microsoft pulled the curtains back on a landmark update for Azure that takes direct aim at the workloads organizations keep behind the firewall. Coming just over a month after “human error” took down the infrastructure-as-a-service platform, the new release features reliability features …
What you missed in Big Data: Google prospects for cloud analytics gold
It was an unusual week in the analytics ecosystem as Hadoop monetarily stepped aside to let Google occupy the spotlight when it opened its cloud-based alternative to developers with the release of an open-source SDK designed to simplify the creation of Big …