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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 ...
SwiftStack adds Cloud Sync to ease hybrid cloud adoption
Object storage platform provider SwiftStack Inc. is doing its bit to ease hybrid cloud adoption with a new capability called Cloud Sync that serves as onramp to the public cloud. Hybrid cloud is rapidly emerging as the most sensible strategy for hundreds of enterprises that need to consider the benefits of the cloud in the ...
HPE demos first working prototype of ‘The Machine,’ its attempt to reinvent computers
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. has hit a new milestone in its plans to reinvent the computer. The company says it has finally built a working prototype as part of its ongoing research project, The Machine. HPE ultimately hopes to revolutionize the way computers are built so they can process data much faster than is possible ...
IT services firm Presidio files for IPO, hopes to raise $400M
IT infrastructure services provider Presidio Inc. is looking to raise up to $400 million in an initial public offering that could potentially raise the company’s value to $3 billion. In its filing with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, Presidio didn’t indicate a share price, but said it’s looking to raise $100 million. However, the ...
Red Hat revamps Linux developer tools, software collections
As one of the leading Linux vendors, Red Hat Inc. offers a variety of operating systems for its multitude of customers. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the company’s main offering, an ultra stable workhorse OS for businesses. Then there’s the Fedora Linux distribution, targeted at developers who want the latest and greatest development tools. But ...
Microsoft fine tunes its Azure A-Series virtual machine instances
Microsoft Corp. last week introduced a bunch of new virtual machine instances on its Azure public cloud. The new VMs aren’t a completely new type, but rather a new set of options for its existing A-Series VMs, which are usually used by developers for various workloads. The new versions of Microsoft’s A-Series VMs are more powerful, ...
Huawei is now the world’s most profitable Android smartphone brand
Months after overtaking Xiaomi Inc. as China’s number one smartphone vendor, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. has now emerged as the world’s second most profitable phone company, followed by Vivo Communication Technology Co. Ltd., and Oppo Electronics Corp., research firm Strategy Analytics said in a new report. Shenzhen-based Huawei raked in just over $200 million in ...