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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, ...
BitTorrent trackers ‘ban’ Windows 10, and Russia could be next
Windows 10 might have been downloaded more than 50 million times already, but it’s been far less well received by certain sections of the online community. At least, not by those who value their privacy anyhow. Last week, a number of well known BitTorrent trackers quietly banned Windows 10 due to privacy concerns surrounding the ...
Oracle swoops on Maxymiser to boost its Marketing Cloud
Enterprise giant Oracle Corp. has made a new acquisition in the shape of Maxymiser, which offers cloud-based software for marketers to test, target and personalize what customers see on web pages, for an undisclosed fee. Specifically, Maxymiser offers what’s called multivariate and A/B testing, which allows companies to try out different versions of a Web ...
MapR’s Hadoop platform lands on AWS cloud
MapR Technologies Inc. has just made its Hadoop distribution available on Amazon Web Services via the AWS Marketplace. With the availability of MapR on AWS, enterprises now have another quick and easy option for running their Big Data products on the AWS cloud. MapR’s solution offers a path to a cloud platform that delivers continuous, ...
HP revenues slump in final earnings call before splitting up
Hewlett-Packard Co. announced profits that fell short of estimates in its fiscal third quarter earnings report, the last the company will make before it splits into two. CEO Meg Whitman said on Thursday that she “was pleased” with the company’s performance during the quarter, even though nearly every reporting segment was down annually. HP said ...
CoreOS adds Intel hardware support to Rocket containers
CoreOS Inc.’s Rocket container runtime recently emerged from nowhere to become the biggest rival to Docker Inc.’s better known container technology, and in spite of a new initiative to create a common body of standards for software containers, the former upstart isn’t about to take its foot off the pedal any time soon. At LinuxCon ...
Lightning strike wipes out data in Google’s Belgium facility
Google has admitted that some of its users have lost data stored in its cloud following a lightning strike on one of its European data centers last month. Google’s facility in St. Ghislain, Belgium, was hit by no less than four lightning strikes between August 13 and August 17, causing errors on its Compute Engine’s ...
Microsoft ships out containers in Windows Server 2016 Preview
Microsoft has released the third technical preview of Windows Server 2016 to beta testers, and for the first time the software comes with Windows Server Containers. The release doesn’t put Windows Server Containers as a rival to Docker containers though, but instead positions it as a complementary technology. “Windows Server Containers are now part of ...