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Here’s why your organization needs a Chief Data Officer
Organizations are more likely to achieve faster growth if they hire a Chief Data Officer (CDO), according to a new report from Forrester Research Inc. That was the conclusion of a survey of 3,005 business and technology decision-makers at companies with 100 or more employees in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, New Zealand, ...
Google ships out its Docker Container Engine into general availability
Google has made its Container Engine service for managing Docker containers on its cloud platform generally available. This means Google now considers the service production ready, and is backed by its 99.5% service-level agreement. As of today, organizations that wish to run Docker containers on Google’s cloud can manage and orchestrate their container clusters via ...
EMC loses another exec as Mark Thurmond heads to Qlik
The EMC Corp. Federation has been hit with yet another executive-level departure, with Mark Thurmond, who until this week was senior vice president of global sales for VCE, announcing that he’s left the company to take on a new role at visual analytics provider Qlik International AB. Thurmond will take over as the new executive ...
ClusterHQ delivers portable, container-level storage to Docker
ClusterHQ, the startup that’s driving development of the popular open-source Flocker container manager, has just announced new partnerships with ConvergeIO, Hedvig, Huawei, NetApp and Nexenta to provide enterprises with integrated solutions that simplify storage provisioning and data persistence for Docker volumes. ClusterHQ’s new partners have developed, or are in the process developing, new storage drivers ...
EMC’s executive exodus won’t rock the Federation boat, analysts say
EMC Corp’s executive exodus claimed its sixth and seventh victims this week, with the departure of VMware Inc. strategist Chuck Hollis closely followed by that of chief technology officer Ben Fathi. Other big names to depart the Federation in recent weeks include EMC’s chief strategy guy Jonathan Martin, who jumped ship to Pure Storage, and ...
Salesforce cloud platform gets a much-needed makeover
Salesforce.com Inc. is finally revamping its services with a new user interface that brings it into the modern age. On Tuesday, Salesforce unveiled the Lightning Experience, a redesigned UI that will deliver users an entirely new way of interacting with the company’s flagship CRM platform. The Lightning Experience will first be applied to the Salesforce ...
Basho beefs up Riak KV database with Apache Mesos
Basho Technologies Inc., the company that develops the NoSQL-based Riak KV database, is teaming up with Cisco Systems Ltd. to build a framework that’ll allow Riak KV to run on Apache Mesos, the open-source cluster manager that lets admins isolate and share resources across distributed applications and frameworks. By integrating Mesos with Riak, the data ...
VMware’s quiet NSX 6.2 release suggests little or no progress on SDN
VMware Inc. has quietly released an update to its NSX virtualized network platform. NSX 6.2 was slipped out the back door without any fanfare four days ago, and the lack of any raving from VMware suggests the company won’t have much to announce in the shape of software-defined networking (SDN) advancements at next week’s VMworld ...
Mirantis grabs $100M in Intel-led funding round
Pure-play OpenStack vendor Mirantis Inc. has just grabbed a second $100 million funding round led by Intel Capital, with participation from existing investors August Capital, Insight Venture Partners, Ericsson, Sapphire Ventures and WestSummit Capital. Mirantis said it plans to work with Intel to make the open-source framework much simpler to deploy and manage, with the ...
Chuck Hollis quits VMware as EMC executive shakeup continues
Yet another top executive has bailed out of the EMC Federation. Chuck Hollis, VMware Inc.’s chief strategist for storage and availability, and formerly EMC Corp.’s global marketing chief technology officer, has said he’s quitting the company so he can team up with some of his old buddies at Oracle Corp. This is a big move, ...