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Red Hat’s new OpenStack Platform release seeks to remedy cloud complexity
Red Hat Inc. wants to make the deployment of cloud computing easier in hopes of making it attractive to more large enterprises, not just early adopters. With that in mind, the Raleigh, N.C.-based company on Thursday unveiled OpenStack Platform 10, based on the “upstream” Newton release that attempts to address the challenge of deployment complexity. The ...
Google throws its weight behind open-source Cloud Foundry
Google Inc. on Thursday threw its weight behind the open-source Cloud Foundry Foundation, the organization that heads up development of the open source cloud platform Cloud Foundry. Google has signed on as a gold member of the foundation, joining companies such as EMC Corp., Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co., IBM Corp., Pivotal Software Inc., SAP SE and VMware Inc. Cloud ...
Big Data software startup Databricks pockets $60 million in Series C funding
Databricks Inc., the company that spearheads the development of the popular Big Data platform Apache Spark, has just snagged its largest funding round to date. The company has just announced its closed on a $60 million Series C funding round led by New Enterprise Associates, which led its previous Series B funding round in June ...
Crate.io unveils database for real-time machine data analysis
CrateDB, an open-source distributed SQL database for real-time analysis of machine data that has already been downloaded more than a million times in the past two years has finally announced its finished 1.0 release. In line with the announcement, Crate.io, the company that develops CrateDB, said it’s opening a new headquarters in San Francisco, in ...
Yahoo suffers second major hack, 1 billion+ user accounts stolen
The credentials of more than a billion Yahoo Inc. user accounts may have been stolen in a second major hack on the struggling Internet portal’s systems. The company said Wednesday that the hackers may have even figured out a way to log in to Yahoo accounts without using their victim’s passwords. The hack, which is a ...
Report: Internet of Things needs coordinated U.S. government strategy to thrive
The U.S. government needs to create a national strategy that covers data security and interoperability standards in order to coordinate private sector efforts to deploy the Internet of Things, the Center for Data Innovation said in a report published Monday. The report warns that “each federal agency is marching to the beat of its own ...
Microsoft announces public beta of Docker for Azure
Microsoft Corp. and Docker Inc. have just announced the public beta of Docker software containers for the software giant’s Azure cloud computing service. Previously, Docker for Azure was only available as a private preview, having been announced at DockerCon 2016 in June. Docker is an open-source engine that’s designed to automate application deployment. It uses containers ...
Cisco will discontinue its Intercloud Services public cloud platform next year
Cisco Systems Inc. has revealed that it’s about to kill off its OpenStack-based Intercloud Services public cloud infrastructure. The service will shut down in March 2017, the maker of networking gear and software said in an internal memo , with workloads being moved to other infrastructure such as public cloud. The Register was first to report ...
Stratoscale’s Symphony 3 lets enterprises build an on-premises AWS region
Cloud infrastructure provider Stratoscale Ltd. has revamped its hyper-converged software, with a focus on Amazon Web Services Inc.’s public cloud, hybrid clouds and developers. The new release, Stratoscale Symphony 3, adds support for object storage in Amazon’s Simple Storage Service S3 and Kubernetes-as-a-service. It also offers a new Application Catalog with more than 130 applications that ...
Bill Gates and other tech leaders form $1B cleantech fund to fight climate change
Pledging to invest at least $1 billion into cleantech startups over the next 20 years, ex-Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Bill Gates has been joined by Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma, Richard Branson, Vinod Khosla, John Doerr and more than a dozen other high-profile investors have created a new venture capital firm called Breakthrough Energy Ventures. Breakthrough ...