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Managed cloud storage ends self-support headaches for online learning provider
For all the compelling cost and customization benefits that open source software promises, sometimes it’s easier just to hand the task off to someone else. That’s the decision online learning platform provider Moonami, LLC made recently when it opted to move 10 terabytes of self-managed storage off of Amazon Web Services Elastic Block Store (EBS) ...
Ask a Wikibon analyst: Is Amazon unstoppable in the cloud?
On the heels of a blitzkrieg of new product announcements and third-quarter earnings that blew away estimates, some people are asking if Amazon Web Services (AWS) is destined to become the Microsoft of the cloud. Not likely, said veteran cloud watcher and Wikibon analyst Brian Gracely (pictured below). The market is too big and diverse ...
ClearSky banks $27M to build out hybrid storage network
With the Dell Computer Inc. – EMC merger distracting two of the storage industry’s largest players, ClearSky Data Inc. thinks the time is right to tell enterprise customers that it has a better way to store and manage data. The company, which went public with its three-tier cloud architecture in August, announced that it has ...
IBM to buy Weather Company, launch IoT Watson business unit
IBM is getting into the weather forecasting business and, at least for the short term, becoming a big customer of Amazon Web Services. In a $2 billion deal that grew out of a partnership announced this summer, IBM said it will acquire The Weather Company’s business-to-business, mobile and cloud-based web properties, including WSI, weather.com, Weather Underground ...
VMware’s Patel: Virtustream will be a top-five cloud service provider
EMC and VMware Inc. last week joined forces to combine their respective cloud capabilities with those of Virtustream Inc., the cloud software and services provider that EMC acquired in a $1.2 billion deal earlier this year. The companies said the move is meant to enable customers to move all applications to hybrid cloud-based IT environments using ...
Ask a Wikibon Analyst: Does the Dell-EMC deal make sense?
“It’s the end of an era for storage,” declared Wikibon Analyst Stu Miniman (@stu, right), summing up the symbolic impact of Dell Inc.’s planned acquisition of storage giant EMC. As a former EMCer himself, Miniman has some special insight on what made that company great and how the combined companies can leverage their assets to ...
Teradata sucks up IoT data, tightens Hadoop embrace
Teradata Corp. kicked off its annual user conference this week with a series of announcements that move its big data platform into the emerging world of the Internet of Things (IoT) and tighten its embrace of the Hadoop platform. The company’s first IoT foray is Teradata Listener, a software gateway that the company described as ...
GoodData makes analytics distribution personal
In a rollout billed as a “partial re-positioning of the company,” analytics maker GoodData Corp. today rolled out an analytics distribution platform that makes it possible for data owners to distribute information from their own warehouses on a personalized basis to individuals, channel affiliates and other constituents. The initiative is based on the assumption that ...
Startup aims to shake up contract management with free service
Armed with $2.7 million of angel investment and a target market of “the world,” Concord Worldwide Inc. today is introducing a full-feature contract management service that it’s giving away for free. The software-as-a-service offering includes features that are typically limited to paid products, such as online document editing, version control, attachments, and discussion. Concord also ...
Opinion: Amazon bids to become the Microsoft of the cloud
I started my technology journalism career in the early 1980s, when IBM’s market dominance was so complete that each year it sopped up half of the industry’s revenues and 80 percent of its profits. I also covered Microsoft during its ascent into desktop dominance. These two amazing companies achieved almost unbelievable power in very competitive markets because ...