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RightScale Extends Cloud Management Platform with SDN Capabilities
Management complexity is a major pain point for enterprises that want a choice between different cloud providers. Luckily, a company called RightScale offers to simplify multi-service environments with a common interface for provisioning resources across public clouds. Recognizing the value in software-defined networking, RightScale announced this week that it has rounded out its offering with ...
Pure Storage and Delphix Prove (Once Again) that Flash is More Effective than Disk
All-flash array vendor Pure Storage has teamed up with database virtualization firm Delphix to demonstrate that flash is not only faster than disk, but also more cost-efficient across the board. To prove their point, the pair deployed 26 virtual databases, each one terabyte in size, on a Pure Storage FlashArray. The system served 35,000 transactions ...
AT&T Bolsters Ecosystem for a Slice of the Enterprise Cloud, Mobile Pie
AT&T is making new friends in a bid to strengthen its presence in the rapidly growing enterprise cloud and mobile verticals. The carrier announced this week that it has joined forces with Microsoft to make Windows Azure available for users of its NetBond virtual private network offering. Citing research firm Forrester, AT&T says that the ...
OVA Appoints NetApp to Governing Board
Since its establishment in May 2011, the Open Virtualization Alliance has played a central role in driving KVM adoption among enterprise users. The organization managed to make serious headway on popularizing open source virtualization, growing into a 200-plus member consortium of cloud vendors and service providers in the process. The latest company to join OVA ...
Cisco Architect On the Many Benefits of Tableau | #tcc13
Sudharshan Seerapu, Cisco’s Lead Architect on Tableau and Tidal Enterprise Scheduler, hopped into theCUBE at the recently concluded Tableau Customer Conference to share the power user perspective on data visualization. Seerapu’s Tableau journey began about a year ago, when he started looking for a self-service business intelligence tool that would empower his less tech savvy ...
Tableau CMO Talks Customer-Driven Marketing | #tcc13
Tableau chief marketing officer Elissa Fink believes that effective brand messaging hinges on positive customer experiences. She stopped by theCUBE at last week’s Tableau Customer Conference to discuss how she applies this principle in her work. Fink and her team take most of the credit for organizing the event, which theCUBE co-host Dave Vellante named ...
Red Hat Teams Up with dotCloud to Promote Open Hypervisor Alternative
In the software-defined era, the hardware abstraction layer doesn’t have to be a hypervisor. Sensing the winds of change, Red Hat is putting its weight behind an open-source Linux container engine called Docker. Developed by dotCloud, Docker takes advantage of system-level functions to encapsulate any application and its dependencies as a lightweight container that can ...
Audience Audit’s Susan Baier on Attitudinal Segmentation | #tcc13
Susan Baier is the owner of Audience Audit, a research firm that specializes in attitudinal segmentation. Baier stopped by theCube at the recently concluded Tableau Customer Conference to explain what it is her company does and how Tableau’s software helped her boost the bottom line. Baier is a marketing veteran with over 25 years of ...
VCE Brings Flash to Converged Infrastructure with Latest Offerings
Founded in 2009 as a joint venture between EMC, VMware and Cisco, VCE is quickly emerging as a leader in the converged infrastructure space. The vendor is now looking to accelerate its growth with new solutions for resource-intensive environments. The freshly unveiled Vblock System 340 marries XtremSW flash cache with Cisco’s B420 M3 blade servers and ...
Attunity Injects Resilience into Data Analytics with New Replication Software
Aggregating data from off-premises databases involves governance and security challenges that traditional network solutions aren’t necessarily equipped to address. Aggregation also yields latency and bandwidth constraints which can be barriers to analytics in geographically dispersed enterprises. Attunity, a Burlington, MA.-based provider of replication software, is tearing down these barriers with a new solution for large-scale ...