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The “big four” still rule the cloud as market growth surpasses 50%
The cloud isn’t all about the “big four” providers of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google and IBM. After the top four, the next twenty cloud firms are growing at an average of 41 percent per year, even as they lose market share, according to a new report from Synergy Research Group. That’s because the overall ...
Yet another skills gap: This time it’s containers
Containers are growing in popularity all the time, but for companies that use them it’s still a significant challenge to hire workers capable of managing them. Those revelations come from continuous app delivery firm Shippable Inc., which released its findings from a new survey of 300 software developers in order to gauge the latest trends ...
Zscaler cloud-based Private Access tool provides an alternative to VPNs
Cloud security vendor Zscaler Inc. is hoping to unseat the Virtual Private Network (VPN) in the enterprise world. Traditionally, organizations provide remote access to corporate apps via a VPN in order to protect their networks from remote attacks, but VPNs can be a tricky beast to use. Zscaler’s alternative is something called Zscaler Private Access, ...
Google’s Cloud Dataflow stomps on Apache Spark in new benchmark tests
Google will be feeling pretty pleased with itself after its Cloud Dataflow service outperformed the immensely popular Apache Spark data processing engine in a recent benchmark study carried out by Mammoth Data Inc. There’s a caveat of course, because Google hired Mammoth Data to carry out the Benchmarking Google Cloud Dataflow study on its data ...
Virtustream launches enterprise cloud storage platform | #emcworld
EMC Corp. subsidiary Virtustream yesterday launched its Storage Cloud platform at EMC World in Las Vegas. Available later this month, the Virtustream Cloud Platform is designed for large enterprises and the public sector, the announcement said. The platform is able to handle web-scale object storage and also extends to on-premises EMC storage to the cloud. ...
Microsoft to launch SQL Server 2016 on June 1
One year after Microsoft released its first public preview of SQL Server 2016, the company has announced its final release date. The software will hit general availability on June 1, with Microsoft positioning it against Oracle in terms of cost, security and speed. Microsoft is offering three flavors of its database management suite – Enterprise, ...
Iron Mountain launches Cloud Archive service with “near-infinite” scalability
Grand old data storage firm Iron Mountain Inc. has just launched a new cloud archive service that brings it up to speed with more youthful rivals like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft, which have offered a similar service for some time already. Iron Mountain bills its Cloud Archive as a cost-efficient data repository for companies ...
Intel shuts down development of low-powered chips for mobile devices
Intel has finally accepted defeat in the mobile chip world after repeatedly losing out to ARM-based SoCs made by the likes of Qualcomm Inc. The chip maker, which last week announced its laying off 12,000 of its staff amid a major reorganization that will see it focus its efforts on the cloud, data centers and ...
Rick Osterloh takes charge of Google’s new hardware division
Google has hired a new executive in the shape of Rick Osterloh to lead its hardware efforts. Osterloh, who was formerly president of Motorola Inc., will head up a new hardware division at Google that encompasses its Nexus smartphones, consumer hardware (which includes Chromebooks and the new Pixel C device for Android phones), Chromecast, Google ...
Microsoft adds Nano Servers to latest Windows Server 2016 preview
Microsoft has let another preview of Windows Server 2016 out the bag, saying this latest release is the first that’s “feature-complete”. Basically, it means that this version carried all of the features we can expect to find in the final build, though there are still a few bugs that need to be ironed out. Windows ...