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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …