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Weekly Cloud review: Microsoft and Amazon step up IaaS rivalry + HP takes SDN to the cloud
Another week, another round of cloud markdowns. Hot on the heels of Google and Amazon lowering their rates, Microsoft announced double-digit cost reductions of its own in its latest attempt to lap ahead in the fiercely competitive race to zero. Redmond first began matching rivals’ price drops in early 2012, a tradition that was enshrined ...
How WANdisco enables Big Data in geographically distributed organizations | #BigDataSV
There’s a lot of excitement around Hadoop, but at present only a portion of operational clusters are in production, due primarily to a lack of enterprise features such as disaster recovery and continuous availability. WANdisco chief marketing officer Jim Campigli and CTO Jagane Sundar stopped by theCUBE during SiliconANGLE’s BigDataSV meetup to discuss how their ...
Amazon cloud boss talks enterprise adoption | #AWSSummit
Andy Jassy, Amazon’s vice president of cloud computing, dedicated his entire keynote address at last week’s AWS Summit to the needs of corporate customers and his firm’s efforts to address them. That speaks to how far the online retailer has come in its public cloud journey, which started in 2006 with the launch of what ...
In the Internet of Things, software is key to value creation
The erosion of hardware margins is outstripping the ability of manufacturers to make it up on volume, even as the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to expand at an accelerating pace, concludes a new report penned by Laurie F. Wurster, Research Director at Gartner. The report, entitled “Emerging Technology Analysis: Software Licensing and Entitlement Management ...
EMC passes another milestone towards IT-as-a-Service : Data protection updates
Storage industry stalwart EMC is revamping its data protection line up as part of its ongoing efforts to deliver on the vision of the software-defined data center, where IT service delivery is decoupled from the underlying infrastructure and driven by business objectives rather than physical constraints. The company hopes to turn that into a reality ...
Cloud first for Microsoft : Azure price cuts, developer outreach + more | #bldwin
Just when it seems things are beginning to settle down in the public cloud, Microsoft has declared that it will dramatically lower prices on Windows Azure in a bid to match the cuts arch-nemesis Amazon unveiled during last week’s AWS Summit in San Francisco. That move was itself a response to the sweeping cost reductions ...
Dell builds out mobile security suite, simplifies VPN management
Dell has launched a new version of its Secure Mobile Access solution that allows admins to restrict which applications can connect to the corporate network based on the specific security permissions assigned to individual users and devices. The offering is part of the company’s recently introduced Enterprise Mobility Management suite and runs on its SonicWALL ...
HP shells out $57 million to settle investor lawsuit
A nearly three-year-long court battle came to an end this week with HP agreeing to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by a group of shareholders after former CEO Leo Apotheker backtracked on his much-touted vision for webOS in August 2011. The mobile operating system, which HP obtained through the 2010 acquisition of Palm, was supposed ...
HP takes SDN to the cloud with new SMB solutions
Software-defined networking (SDN) is not just for the enterprise anymore. This week at Interop Las Vegas, Hewlett-Packard announced new solutions designed to bring programmable connectivity to small- and medium-sized businesses that don’t have the resources to build out and maintain a sophisticated next-generation network in-house but stand to benefit from the technology just as much ...
Ushering in Big Data app economy : Splunk brings real-time reporting to Exchange
Although there are compelling operational benefits to be had from moving email to the cloud, most enterprises still maintain at least some part of their Exchange environment in-house. And more often than not, that on-premise hardware will eat up a disproportionate chunk of the IT budget due to the sheer complexity of keeping an entire ...