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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Zettaset hardens Hadoop environments with HBase security tool
Zettaset, a five year-old startup that develops software for managing Hadoop clusters, is extending its flagship Orchestrator product deeper into the technology ecosystem around the batch processing platform with a new feature called HBase Security. The upgrade marks a continuation of the …
How Treasure Data can stay cool in competitive Big Data market
Growing interest in cloud services is driving the emergence of a new wave of startups that are applying the managed services model to analytics in hopes of setting themselves apart from the on-premise vendors reigning over the enterprise market today. There’s a …