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OpenStack Summit 2014 marked by series of ecosystem product milestones
The opening day of this week’s OpenStack Summit in Atlanta has brought with it the usual slew of product updates from around the industry. It was Red Hat that opened the floodgates with the announcement of two new strategic partnerships underscoring its aggressive focus on operationalizing the open source cloud platform atop Linux. First, the ...
What you missed in Big Data: hardening Hadoop and the corporate network
As more and more analytics projects graduate from siloed pilot implementations to production, the need for control grows more pressing in the enterprise, necessitating a new approach to security that focuses on the data itself rather than the perimeter as traditional models have. The problem is that Hadoop and many of the other open source ...
HP, Metacloud milestones leading up to #OpenStackSummit
With OpenStack Summit 2014 set to kick off tomorrow in Atlanta, now is a good time to revisit two major industry milestones leading up to the event. The annual OpenStack Summit is poised to attract the largest attendance to date this year—a sign that adoption of the open-source cloud platform is continuing apace. The industry ...
OpenStack Foundation launches independent marketplace to help users cut through vendors’ jargon
Transparency, or the lack thereof, is a big issue with almost every new technology. In the early days of cloud computing, many vendors stuck a “cloud” label on their existing services in hopes of exploiting user confusion to drive brand awareness, and a similar phenomenon is occurring today among some traditional data management providers that ...
Testing all-flash arrays made easy, courtesy of EMC XtremIO | #EMCworld
All Flash Arrays offer a number of distinct advantages over traditional disk systems, starting with superior performance and lower latency, but assessing the impact of that increased responsiveness on the bottom line involves a different set of metrics that many IT professionals in the traditional enterprise are not necessarily comfortable with yet. That knowledge divide ...
Weekly Cloud review: boxes and data centers
Public cloud adoption is continuing apace in the enterprise. Box founding CEO Aaron Levie revealed this week that his firm has signed up General Electric as a customer, which means that the mega-conglomerate’s more than 300,000 employees will now be using its platform for file sharing and collaboration. The deal represents a major vote of ...
Thursday cloud highlights: When stacks collide
Now that most enterprises have recognized the tremendous potential in the vast amounts of information at their disposal, the technology focus is shifting from the individual tools which make analytics possible at large scale to integrated products that can effectively combine those components into a cohesive platform for driving business insights. This trend has spurred ...
Day 2 of #EMCworld marks another strategic landmark for the federation | #EMCworld
The second day of EMC World 2014 proved just as eventful as the first, with the storage stalwart and its subsidiaries launching another barrage of product announcements in a pivot towards the elusive “third platform for IT”, the next evolution of enterprise computing beyond the client-server model. SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier and Wikibon CTO Dave ...
Big Data meets hybrid computing in latest cloud trends
In response to increased pressure from emerging competition in the cloud analytics market, the incumbent vendors are tapping into their large install bases to try and push the envelope with new offerings spanning both on- and off-premise environments. That has been a major theme in the industry for the last few days, with the EMC ...
EMC jumps on the hybrid cloud bandwagon with ViPR reference design + new offerings
Continuing the “third platform for IT” theme at its annual customer conference this week, EMC has unloaded another batch of product updates on Tuesday, with the focus this time around being hybrid cloud computing. As a reminder, the first day of EMC World 2014 saw the announcement of several new and updated solutions, including a ...