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ServiceNow and Fruition Partners strengthen cloud ecosystem
ServiceNow, a provider of cloud-based IT automation solutions, is taking a page out of Amazon’s book and investing in the ecosystem to fuel growth. Cloud service management firm Fruition Partners recently achieved “ServiceNow Master Services Partner” status in the latest sign that ServiceNow’s efforts are paying off: the industry is catching up on the transition to the single system ...
CA Technologies puts unique twist on enterprise cloud governance
CA Technologies is applying the core principles of BYOD to the cloud in a bid to help organizations tame the use of unauthorized apps, without hindering employee productivity. The software giant last week announced CA Service Management, a platform-independent service hub that addresses cloud services sprawl (also known as shadow IT). Cloud services sprawl is driven ...
Hortonworks launches HDP 2.0 for Windows
Hortonworks, the buzzed-about Big Data startup that spun out of Yahoo in 2011, announced today the availability of its latest Hadoop distribution for Windows. The Linux edition of Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) 2.0 hit the market a little less than three months ago. As the name implies, the distro is based on Apache Hadoop 2.0, ...
Fusion-io beats out competition with ultra-fast hybrid arrays
Fusion-io, the company that single-handedly put server-side flash on the CIO’s radar, is now making a splash in the hybrid storage market with its ioControl array for small and medium enterprises. Unveiled just three months ago, the system is based on technology from NexGen Storage, the Colorado-based appliance maker Fusion-io acquired last August for $119 ...
GE picks up API Healthcare to round out Industrial Internet vision
GE is is investing heavily to lay down the foundations for Industrial Internet, its vision for a global network of “smart” machines that will provide a constant stream of real-time sensory data for minute-by-minute visibility into operations. But there’s more to analytics than just collecting and storing information, which is why the engineering giant chucked ...
Accenture gobbles up Germany’s ClientHouse for a seat on the Salesforce bandwagon
Top IT vendors have been cozying up to Salesforce lately in a bid to catch up on the industry-wide shift to the cloud, but Accenture is having none of it. The consultancy is reasserting its dominance in the CRM giant’s partner ecosystem with the acquisition of ClientHouse, an eight-year-old implementation company based in Jena, Germany. ...
SolidFire vying for ecosystem prominence as OpenStack matures
OpenStack is at a crossroads. Already in its fourth year, the project is hailed by supporters as a private cloud alternative to AWS without the lock-in, but there remain significant gaps between vision and reality. In particular, the lack of coherent leadership has led to fragmentation in the ecosystem, spawning a dizzying array of largely ...
QLogic and Brocade team up for SAN + Gen 6 FC
Modular appliances that collapse compute and storage into a single resource tier are taking the enterprise data center by storm, but QLogic doesn’t see hyperconvergence vendors like the recently funded Nutanix disrupting its traditional revenue streams any time soon. The network equipment maker announced this morning that it has joined forces with Brocade to develop ...
HP gives up on Windows 8 in latest push to regain relevance
Hewlett-Packard is not doing things the Microsoft way anymore. In a move that directly undermines the software giant’s efforts to rekindle demand for Windows 8, HP has shifted its marketing focus back to Windows 7. As part of a new promotion bearing the slogan “back by popular demand,” the struggling hardware maker is offering $150 ...
Cloud computing isn’t a threat to IT jobs, says analyst | #VTUG
Tony Asaro, a longtime industry analyst and the founding CEO of INI Group, appeared on theCUBE at the recently concluded Virtual Technology Users Group (VTUG) Winter Warmer summit to discuss the changing dynamics of enterprise IT with Wikibon’s Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman. Cloud computing is the first item on the agenda. Asaro reports that ...