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Dell Technologies Inc. has released its first product following its $67 billion swallow of EMC Corp. in the shape of a new software-defined storage (SDS) offering. Called ScaleIO Ready Node, it’s an all-flash SDS product that runs on Dell EMC PowerEdge x86 …
Gartner forecasts explosive growth in public, private cloud services
Gartner Inc. reckons the global market for public cloud services will grow by 17 percent this year. The research firm said in its latest report that the market for cloud services, worth $178 billion in 2015, will surge to $208.6 billion by the …
Unravel Data emerges from stealth to clean up the Big Data stack
One of the major barriers to any successful Big Data project is mastering all of the technologies needed to make it happen. Big Data has evolved into a mish-mash of technologies, with Hadoop at the core and a clutch of associated platforms …
Dell-HPE battle rages on as server market revenues fall
The newly merged Dell Technologies Inc. has overtaken Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. in servers in terms of units shipped, but HPE continues to lead the field in revenues, according to new reports from Gartner Inc. and International Data Corp. (IDC). The report comes …
Scala developers lead the way in container, microservices adoption
Scala developers are inching ahead of Java developers when it comes to microservices and cloud-native apps. But according to a new survey by Lightbend Inc., the main backer of the Scala project, both camps also indicate that containers are set to cause …
Evernote to take up residence in Google’s cloud
Evernote has said it will migrate its entire infrastructure onto Google’s Cloud Platform. The deal is a big win for the search giant’s effort to make headway against Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, the leaders in public cloud computing. In a …
VMware offloads vRealize Business Enterprise and IT Benchmarking business
VMware Inc. has said it’s dumping its vRealize Business Enterprise and IT Benchmarking software, which is the financial component of its vRealize management suite, just five years after it first acquired it. Private investment firm Skyview Capital has acquired the business for an undisclosed sum. …
Microsoft to launch Azure Service Fabric on Linux this month
Microsoft has announced it will release a Linux flavor of its Service Fabric cloud service into public preview later this month. The service was first launched in preview on Azure last March, and the company says a Linux flavor will be released …
OpenStack Mitaka software arrives as developers tease Newton release
As vendors scramble to update their OpenStack distributions based on the latest Mitaka release, developers are already teasing what’s in store for the next version of the cloud computing fabric, dubbed OpenStack Newton. A number of vendors have already gotten their latest …
Google appeals to developers with new Cloud Tools for PowerShell
Google is stepping up its efforts to woo Microsoft .NET developers with the introduction of new tools aimed at helping them utilize its Cloud Platform environment. Late yesterday the company unveiled a new set of Cloud Tools for PowerShell that allow developers …