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Amazon and Salesforce envision a future without restrictive licensing agreements and cost-prohibitive software upgrades, but the industry still has a long way to go before realizing that ambition. IT organizations have their feet firmly planted in the present. Even as more processes …
EMC cuts jobs after solid Q4
EMC plans to let approximately 1,000 workers go as part of a restructuring plan that will kick off later this quarter, according to a Wednesday filing with the SEC. The layoffs are expected to cost the storage stalwart somewhere between $100 million …
Fusion-io strikes new OEM partnerships for hyperscale servers
The buzz around Facebook’s Open Compute Project (OCP) is growing as more organizations, particularly large enterprises, move to hyperscale as part of the industry-wide push for cost-effectiveness in storing and processing vast amounts of unstructured data. The architecture, pioneered by the social …
Cloud startup Bitglass launches privacy-centric security platform
Cloud apps are taking off in the enterprise thanks to increased demand for business agility and heightening frustration with traditional sign-off procedures. But, while users may see immediate benefits from bypassing their organization’s antiquated controls, their CIOs are left with a governance …
IO expands cloud footprint : Teams with CenturyLink
Modular data center specialist IO on Wednesday landed a strategic agreement with CenturyLink’s newly formed Technology Solutions group, which was until recently known as Savvis, to lay the groundwork for the telecommunications provider’s colocation and hosting rollout in Arizona. As part of …
QLogic jumps on hyperscale bandwagon with FC adapter for OCP servers
Facebook launched the Open Compute Project (OCP) in 2011 with the goal of establishing a set of industry standards for hyperscale computing, a new operating paradigm that does away with proprietary solutions in favor of open source software and off-the-shelf data center …
Microsoft aligns with Facebook to open source hyperscale
At re:Invent last year, Amazon VP James Hamilton gave attendees a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the AWS juggernaut, revealing how his firm leverages hyperspecialized components to achieve operational efficiencies at unprecedented scale. But other than that, the IaaS giant …
Altiscale debuts industry’s first true Hadoop Cloud
Another day, another startup tackling the challenges of Big Data. Altiscale, the brainchild of former Yahoo chief architect and CTO Raymie Stata, today announced the general availability of Altiscale Data Cloud, its new Hadoop-as-a-Service (HaaS) platform. With only $12 million in Series …
EnterpriseDB expands cloud-based Postgres Plus database on AWS
Since Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2010, developers have been moving away from MySQL to community-developed alternatives such as MariaDB and even PostgresSQL, the long-time underdog of the database world. EnterpriseDB founder and CEO Ed Boyajian is an open source veteran; he believes …
Elasticsearch’s new Marvel tool adds monitoring to real-time analytics
Elasticsearch, the Amsterdam-based startup behind the open-source Big Data query engine of the same name, today announced the general availability of Marvel, its first commercial product. Marvel is a monitoring solution that pulls in and visualizes real-time activity data exposed through a project’s APIs …