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HyperGrid delivers cloud-in-a-box with container, licensing twists
Five months after its birth from the merger of Gridstore Inc. and DCHQ Inc., HyperGrid Inc. is delivering its promised hybrid-cloud-in-a-box service with a few unique twists. HyperCloud is described as a full scale-out application platform that can be set up in minutes and managed on premise, via a cloud service or as a combination of both. The ...
Survey sees Office 365 pulling away from Google’s G Suite
Google Inc. may have beaten Microsoft Corp. to the punch in getting office productivity applications in the cloud, but Microsoft has more than made up for lost time. A look at the use of cloud applications in more than 120,000 organizations around the world by cloud access security broker Bitglass Inc. finds that Office 365 is ...
Startup Veriflow takes big data approach to network, security monitoring
Veriflow Systems Inc. today is launching a network monitoring platform that takes a big data analytics approach to network monitoring, saying its technology can eliminate network outages and identify security vulnerabilities across complex networks at a scale other technologies can’t match. Born out of research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and backed with $10 million in ...
DataStax acquires its way into managed NoSQL cloud database market
DataStax Inc., developer of an enterprise version of the Apache Cassandra NoSQL database, has acquired DataScale Inc. and will launch a fully managed cloud version of its DataStax Enterprise product. Terms weren’t disclosed. DataScale is one of a handful of cloud-based management service providers that supports Cassandra, an open-source database engine that is prized for ...
Analytics help app developer conceive of new possibilities
Desperately trying to get pregnant? There’s an app for that. Actually, there are many apps for that. Type “period tracker” into Google Play and you’ll uncover more than 100 programs that help women track their menstrual cycles and dispense all kinds of helpful advice about health, fertility and how to conceive. One of the top-rated ...
Cloud network helps health care provider reel in remote-office costs
From an information technology perspective, small and midsized businesses with multiple locations get it in the neck. They often need to keep an arsenal of technology in place for protection and compliance reasons, even when the staff size in far-flung offices is tiny. North Carolina-based Universal Mental Health Services Inc. was in just such a quandary when ...
AppDynamics ties code to business value with upgrade to App iQ suite
AppDynamics Inc., the richly funded performance monitoring company, is aiming to take information technology’s value up a notch with the release of a new monitoring engine that connects business results to operational analytics. Business iQ is the fifth component in the company’s App iQ suite of applications, which take a big data analytics approach to understanding system ...
How one health care firm cut hosting costs in half with cloud scheduling
Would you spend $99 per month to save $15,000? That’s effectively what Tristar Medical Group did. The company deployed a cloud scheduling tool to nearly halve cloud hosting costs by automatically shutting down Amazon Web Services incidences when they weren’t needed. Tristar Medical Group is the largest privately owned health services provider in Australia, with 53 ...
Axway aims integration platform at improved customer experience
European data integration vendor Axway Software SA has introduced Amplify, a data integration and application program interface management platform that it said enables organizations to quickly develop new applications and expose data and processes by combining data from a wide variety of sources. Amplify provides a secure environment both in the cloud and on-premises for digital teams ...
ClusterHQ offers developers GitHub-like data repository
ClusterHQ Inc. is attacking a critical shortcoming of container technology – statelessness – with two new container data management products intended for use by application developers. The company likens its new FlockerHub hosted data management repository to GitHub, the repository hosting service that is wildly popular with developers. A companion open-source tool called Fli lets developers ...