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VMware gobbles up CloudVolumes for real-time app delivery
VMware has just gobbled up a pre-VMworld 2014 snack, adding to its desktop virtualization stack by acquiring real-time application delivery firm CloudVolumes. The company kept schtum on how much money it shelled out, but was eager to talk about why it did. Kit Colber, VMware’s CTO, spoke enthusiastically about CloudVolumes’ “layering” technique which he describes ...
Google’s cloud adds Mesos clusters + Docker containers
Mesosphere, Inc. has announced that its Mesos clusters are now available on the Google Compute Engine, allowing Google Inc.’s cloud users to abstract basic devops, which simplifies the data center to look more like a single bit of hardware. For those who don’t know what the Mesos Project is, it’s a cluster management tool that’s designed ...
“Friendly” activist investor Blue Harbour bites into Rackspace
An apparently “friendly” activist investor has increased its stake in OpenStack leader Rackspace Inc., ahead of a possible sale. The Wall Street Journal reports that Blue Harbour Group LP., has slowly but surely accumulated a 6.4 percent stake in the company since the first quarter of this year, having previously disclosed a 2.5 percent stake ...
MongoDB now offers support for Community Edition of its NoSQL database
NoSQL database king MongoDB Inc., is wooing customers that want to run the Community Edition of its software in production environments with a new support option. “Our Production Support offering is now available as a standalone service – separate from our MongoDB Enterprise software,” wrote MongoDB marketing director Meghan Gill in the company blog. “This ...
Gartner’s Hype Cycle: Big Data’s on the slippery slope
Gartner has just released its annual Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, and it shows some interesting moves for two of the most important enterprise technologies – Big Data and the cloud. Organizations that make use of these technologies might therefore need to brace themselves as their usefulness comes in for closer scrutiny. Gartner’s Hype Cycle ...
Microsoft Azure cloud hit by hours-long service interruption
Microsoft Corp., was hit by the Monday morning blues in a bad way yesterday, when its Azure cloud was hit by partial and full service interruptions to several services across multiple regions. Here’s the message posted on the Azure service status page: “Starting at 18 Aug 2014 17:49 UTC, we are experiencing an interruption to ...
Containers & KVMs go head-to-head in IBM Research study
IBM Research Division has just published a paper detailing a side-by-side comparison of Docker containers versus the KVM hypervisor, highlighting the latter’s cost when used with NAT or AUFS, and questioning the wisdom of running containers inside virtual machines. Big Blue’s boffins compared the two technologies using the linear-equation solving package Linpack, network bandwidth using ...
IBM’s X86 server sale to Lenovo gets a green light
The sale of IBM Corp’s low-end server division to China’s Lenovo Group Ltd., has finally been granted the go-ahead by US regulators. The Committee on Foreign Investment (CFIUS) has given the thumbs up to the acquisition, which will see Lenovo take IBM’s X86 server business unit off its hands in a $2.3 billion deal. “Lenovo can ...
Ditch Windows 7 now to avoid migration headaches, says Gartner
So you’ve finally decided to take heed of the warnings and upgrade your old Windows XP PCs ? That’s great, but now you should start planning ditch Windows 7 too. That’s the advice of research firm Gartner Inc., which has just said that in spite of Microsoft’s promise to support Windows 7 until 2020, firms ...
Visual Studio Online hit by another major outage
Microsoft Corp’s Visual Studio Online service for software developers was hit by its second major outage in the space of a month yesterday, and was inaccessible to users for about four hours. Microsoft has since blamed the snafu on problems with its database. Visual Studio Online was launched in November last year, coinciding with the ...