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Iron.io’s Project Kratos promises AWS Lambda without the lock-in
San Francisco-based startup Iron.io, which recently landed $8 million in funding, has just kicked off a project aimed at defeating the specter of cloud vendor lock-in. Called Project Kratos, the initiative will “enable enterprises to run AWS Lambda functionality in any cloud provider, as well as on-premises”, the company said. Iron.io already offers a task-queuing ...
AWS buys a very NICE high-performance computing startup
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is bolstering its high-performance computing (HPC) efforts with the acquisition of Italian software and services company Nice Software s.r.l. AWS didn’t divulge many details, but chief evangelist Jeff Barr did comment on the reasoning behind the acquisition in a blog post. “These [Nice] products help customers to optimize and centralize their high-performance computing ...
Will it? Won’t it? New doubts raised over Dell-EMC takeover
Dell Inc.’s proposed $67 billion takeover of EMC Corp. is once again, with the New York Post reporting that bankers are having difficulty in raising the necessary cash to fund the acquisition. When the deal was announced last October it looked to be cut and dried, with Dell carefully laying out its plans to fund the ...
Rackspace now hosts Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux OpenStack on its private cloud
Rackspace Inc. has teamed up with Linux vendor Red Hat Inc. to add another Openstack-as-a-Service offering to its lineup. Rackspace Private Cloud powered by Red Hat is essentially Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform hosted on Rackspace’s private cloud, and sits alongside Rackspace’s own Private Cloud powered by OpenStack. The service comes with Rackspace’s standard ...
Ignore Wall Street: Tableau’s still the king of Business Intelligence
Stock market analysts trampled all over Tableau Software Inc. this week after the ‘darling of Big Data’ slashed its guidance on next quarter’s earnings. That move caused profit-hungry shareholders to recoil in horror, and resulted in Tableau’s stock losing more than half of its value in a single day. To recap, Tableau’s stock was trading at $81.75 on Monday ...
GitHub thinks BIG with clustering support for large enterprises
Amid the rumblings of discontent over at GitHub, which reportedly stem from internal debates over whether the organization should focus on large businesses instead of smaller developers, it’s just rolled out a number of new features aimed at its biggest users. GitHub Enterprise 2.5 offers improvements geared towards organizations with “tens of thousands of developers”, ...
Cisco beats Wall Street estimates but bemoans stock market jitters
Cisco Systems Ltd. managed to beat analyst’s estimates with better-than-expected second quarter profits and $15 billion in new buybacks that saw its share price rocket in after-hours trading. Cisco reported net income of $3.1 billion for the quarter, equating to $0.62 per share. Non-GAAP earnings were $0.57 per share on $11.8 billion in revenues, a ...
Report: Enterprises now using an average of six different clouds
Such is the complexity of cloud computing systems that the average user runs applications and carries out experiments on a combination of six different public and private clouds, according to a new survey from Software-as-a-Service provider RightScale Inc. RightScale’s 2016 State of the Cloud Report, which is based on the answers of more than 1,000 ...
Microsoft sheds new light on Windows 10 updates
Microsoft has infuriated dozens of system admins with the near-constant flow of updates its released for Windows 10 since the OS launched last year. In particular, people are miffed about the veil of secrecy that comes with these system updates, which could potentially make some critical changes without anyone’s knowledge. The problem is that Microsoft ...
Looker revs up analytics on Hadoop with support for Presto & Spark SQL
Business intelligence startup Looker Data Sciences Inc. is tapping into Hadoop’s processing power for data analytics with a new update that provides support for Presto and Spark SQL. Santa Cruz, CA-based Looker’s platform is described by the company as a “browser-based development environment for business intelligence”. The platform is built atop of Looker’s proprietary programming ...