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Enterprises desperately want to build more mobile apps for their businesses, but many are unable to do so due to a lack of resources. Now, to help smaller enterprises solve this dilemma, a startup called PowWow Mobile has created a new platform …
VMware touts new feature-lite versions of NSX
VMware Inc. is hoping to squeeze a few extra dollars from its NSX offering by amping up the price tag, and offering cheaper, “feature-lite” versions of the product with less features. NSX is an offering that VMware pitches at customers wanting to …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …