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Weekly Big Data review: Vendors accelerate convergence of cloud and analytics
Big Data and cloud computing are a perfect fit, but delivering on the potential of infinitely scalable analytics is much easier said than done. The industry is working to change that, however, and a lot of progress is being made. SAP this week introduced a simplified pricing scheme for its HANA platform that aims to ...
Weekly cloud review: fresh funding + new services steal spotlight
Just when it seemed that the cloud ecosystem is beginning to settle down, with Amazon staking the lead, DigitalOcean landed $37.2 million in Series A funding from prominent Silicon Valley VC Andreessen Horowitz. The Seattle-based startup has done what the industry’s largest vendors have failed and gained a one-up on the cloud giant, outpacing it ...
Software’s leading role in the future data center, visualized
Amazon has wrapped an API around IT infrastructure and thus forever changed the way organizations consume technology services, raising the bar on business agility but also creating new challenges in management and policy enforcement. Now, as enterprise CIOs move to tear down these barriers in an effort to meet strategic objectives and evolving user expectations, ...
At the intersection of cloud and Big Data, SAP makes HANA more accessible than ever
The days of monolithic business intelligence (BI) software are coming to an end, and SAP is doing everything within its power to escape the death spiral. The German firm is diversifying beyond its legacy revenue streams with a fast-expanding portfolio of cloud applications underpinned by HANA, a speedy in-memory database that has itself been available ...
Red Hat adds .NET and SQL Server support to OpenShift
In the true spirit of open source, Red Hat has updated its OpenShift platform-as-a-service to support .NET applications and added SQL Server to the list of available databases on the solution. Implemented with the help of Seattle-based integration startup Uhuru Software, the enhancements represent a major push into Microsft territory and confirmation that the enterprise ...
Microsoft delivers on new CEO’s vision for consumerization of IT with OneDrive for Business
Microsoft has turned a problem into an opportunity with its cloud locker, which had to be renamed in the aftermath of a trademark dispute with British Sky Broadcasting Group. Besides a new logo, the recently unveiled OneDrive introduces additional features and makes it easier for users to access the hosted version of Office, which was ...
Remo ups ante on home device management with Avast integration
The explosion of smartphones and tablets sweeping through the enterprise mirrors the growing number of connected devices in the average household, where the same problems facing CIOs today are beginning to crop up, albeit on a smaller scale. In a world of multiple platforms, ensuring consistent data access and privacy is more difficult than ever. ...
The world’s “fastest growing” cloud provider raises $37M to recruit top-tier talent
DigitalOcean, an emerging cloud provider that is apparently growing faster than AWS, has just closed a $37.2 million Series A financing led by prominent Silicon Valley VC Andreessen Horowitz. The funding represents a huge vote of confidence in the startup, which is punching above its weight in an ultra-competitive market dominated by some of the ...
Unlocking business insights in the data-driven enterprise | #BigDataSV
Organizations have a lot of valuable data laying around, most of it locked away in aging silos that are difficult to manage and even harder to get to. This lack of accessibility poses a fundamental stumbling block for CIOs undertaking Big Data initiatives, especially in large enterprises and highly regulated companies that are subject to ...
CloudBees pockets $11M for enterprise Java PaaS
CloudBees announced this morning that it has secured $11.2 million in a third round of funding led by the investment arm of Verizon, with which it partnered earlier this year. New investor Blue Cloud Ventures and existing backers Matrix Partners and LightSpeed Venture Partners also contributed to the funding, which brings the total raised to ...