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Weekly Cloud review: OpenStack + governance enter new stage of evolution
Red Hat is pushing back against Amazon Web Services with an open source spin on the hybrid cloud. Unveiled on Monday, the latest release of the company’s Linux-based server virtualization platform gives users more flexibility in managing their environments and integrates with OpenStack to deliver software-defined networking capabilities. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.3 adds ...
Microsoft matches Amazon’s price cuts across all regions
Amazon may be dictating the pace in the IaaS race to zero, but the competition is never too far behind. On Friday, less than a week after the retailer-turned-cloud-giant dropped its rates for the 40th time since launching AWS in 2006, Microsoft upped the ante with a discount of its own. This is not the ...
Red Hat revamps cloud portfolio : Brings OpenStack closer to enterprise
Red Hat is bringing OpenStack interoperability a step closer to reality with a new version of its server virtualization platform that aims to deliver a consistent management layer across on- and off-premise deployments. For customers, that means being able to transfer workloads between clouds without having to worry about compatibility constraints or gaps in service ...
Chartio marks latest funding round with new Big Data capabilities + services
Chartio, the Y Combinator startup that visualizes business information in the cloud, announced on Wednesday that it has bagged another $2.2 million from early-stage investor Avalon Ventures. The funding represents an important milestone for the firm, which has raised a total of $6.64 million to date and quadrupled in size since closing its first round ...
Symantec NetBackup 7.6 recovers VMs in a hurry
With the rise of virtualization, backup and recovery took the backseat to business goals. But today, the emergence of private clouds and the explosion in unstructured information has put data protection back on the enterprise agenda. Symantec is looking to help companies rein in their virtualized environments with the latest version of its NetBackup software, which ...
VMware picks up enterprise MDM vendor AirWatch for $1.54B
VMware is advancing deeper into Citrix territory with the acquisition of AirWatch, a privately-held developer of mobile device management (MDM) software based in Atlanta. The deal is valued at approximately $1.54 billion (mostly in cash) and is expected to close later this quarter subject to regulatory approval and customary closing conditions. The 11-year-old AirWatch had ...
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 ...