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Red Hat survey finds traditional enterprises struggle with digital transformation
Traditional enterprises, meaning companies which have been established for some years and are typically using older information technology, are struggling to keep up with their “digital native” counterparts, according to a new survey from Bain & Co. and Red Hat Inc. The survey on the state of digital transformation, “For Traditional Enterprises, the Path to ...
Gartner: Server market still down in the dumps as revenues, shipments fall
The global computer server market continues to be dogged by a combination of low spending, easy access to virtual machines, and the need for reinvigorated value propositions, Gartner Inc. said in its latest report. Global server revenues tumbled by 5.8 percent in the third quarter of 2016 compared to one year ago, while shipments also ...
SUSE acquires HPE’s Cloud Foundry and OpenStack assets
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. has announced that it’s selling the bulk of its OpenStack and Cloud Foundry assets to Linux provider SUSE for an undisclosed sum. The deal will also see SUSE acquire some of HPE’s employees when it closes in the first quarter of 2017. The deal is complicated by the fact that SUSE’s ...
AWS debuts pay-as-you-go interactive query service for Amazon S3
Amazon Web Services Wednesday announced the availability of its new Amazon Athena tool. The new service enables serverless queries of massive amounts of data stored in Amazon’s Simple Storage Service, without needing to set up data warehouses or spin up Hadoop clusters first. AWS said the idea behind Amazon Athena is that it can simplify ...
Datapipe launches Trebuchet to simplify DevOps
Cloud services company Datapipe Inc. has launched a new beta solution called Trebuchet that’s designed for organizations that want to apply automation and grow into a DevOps lifecycle. Datapipe’s pitch is that while DevOps, a method of creating software faster inside information technology organizations, is becoming increasingly popular, very few companies actually possess the knowledge ...
American Airlines lands on IBM’s cloud
American Airlines Group Inc. is teaming up with IBM Cloud in a deal that will see the airline move some enterprise applications to Big Blue’s cloud computing platform. The two companies have a relationship that stretches back more than 50 years,to IBM’s development of American Airlines’ original, centralized electronic reservation and ticketing system, which went ...
Small cloud providers must become brokers or risk losing out, says 451 Research
Public cloud service providers will need to adopt a flexible approach that includes offering products from their competitors if they’re to survive in the long term, says a new report by 451 Research Inc. The research firm says in its “Managed Infrastructure Market Overview 2016” report that with users increasingly adopting a multi-cloud approach to service ...
Splice Machine boosts hybrid capabilities of its Big Data platform
Splice Machine Inc. has beefed up its relational database management system’s hybrid workload capabilities with the release of version 2.5 of its platform, which is powered by Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark. Specifically, Splice Machine’s platform is a dual-engine RDBMS that specializes in something called hybrid transactional and analytical processing. What this means is that ...
Fugue debuts free cloud migration tool for Amazon Web Services
Cloud infrastructure management company Fugue Inc. has just introduced a free version of its flagship cloud orchestration tool at Amazon Web Services’ AWS re:Invent conference. Fugue’s product attempts to simplify some of the most pressing challenges that companies face when they move their infrastructure to the cloud, which is finding experienced personnel who know how ...
ScaleArc brings load balancing tools to Amazon’s Aurora cloud database
Database performance monitoring specialist ScaleArc Inc. is integrating its software with Amazon Web Services’ Aurora database service in order to help customers boost the performance and availability of their most critical applications. ScaleArc sells database load balancing software that sits between database servers and the application, directing traffic into the database on behalf of the ...