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VMware upgrades vRealize for better hybrid cloud DevOps
The hybrid cloud is once again the center theme of VMware Inc.’s annual user conference in Barcelona, where attendees were greeted this morning by a new iteration of its infrastructure automation software that promises to take more complexity out of day-to-day operations. The main highlight is a new blueprinting capability for orchestrating complex environments. The addition ...
What Dell’s $67 billion acquisition of EMC means for the data center
After postponing his retirement not once but twice, Joe Tucci, the 67-year-old EMC Corp. CEO who has been called the last of the enterprise technology world’s old guard, is finally hanging up his spurs. The executive is concluding his long and fruitful career with one final gambit to make or break his legacy: The formation ...
Syncsort sells out to private equity fund
It’s shaping up to be a historic week for enterprise technology. Against the backdrop of Dell Inc. confirming its long-rumored plans to acquire EMC Corp. in one of the biggest mergers that the industry has ever seen, another veteran name in the business is closing a chapter of its own. Syncsort Inc. is selling out to ...
What you missed in Big Data: Chasing the competition
The buzz at Amazon Inc.’s annual re:Invent cloud conference last week spilled over into the analytics world following the introduction of a new business intelligence service promising to simplify the visualization of data stored on its platform. The aptly-named QuickSight comes with the usual promises of better pricing and easier setup compared to traditional on-premise tools. ...
What you missed at re:Invent: Container mania
Five days every year, the industry takes a break from its usual competitive routine and turns its collective attention to Las Vegas, where Amazon Inc. sets the agenda for the next 12 months in the public cloud at its re:Invent conference. Last week’s summit was no different, with a slew of launches spanning all the major ...
Segment raises $27 million for its data lake lite
The notion of centralizing all of an organization’s data in a single repository to improve access for users was shot down almost as soon as it entered the discussion due to the impossible logistics of the undertaking. But there do exist some narrower use cases where the benefits of the model exceed the hassle, which ...
EMC teams with Mesosphere in open-source storage push
Only a few weeks after entering an agreement to help Microsoft Corp. bring its namesake data center orchestration framework to Windows, Mesosphere Inc. is announcing a partnership with another major vendor hoping to secure a seat at the software-defined table. EMC Corp. sees the same promise in the startup’s technology as Redmond. The Mesosphere Data ...
Pure Storage tanks after lukewarm IPO in latest flash disappointment
Wall Street doesn’t seem to be nearly as enthusiastic about the applications of solid-state memory in the enterprise as storage practitioners judging by the reception to Pure Storage’s IPO. The array vendor, which saw its revenue quadruple last year, is now trading below the target price range of yesterday’s offering after failing to end flash’s bad streak ...
AppDirect joins the unicorn club following $140 million funding round
The latest addition to the billion-dollar valuation club is a six-year-old startup called AppDirect Inc. that raised $140 million in a funding round announced this morning to do for the enterprise what the App Store did for mobile content consumption. The difference is the breadth of the challenge that it’s attempting to solve. Requiring developers ...
IBM acquires Cleversafe to scale its public cloud into the exabytes
Barely two weeks after snapping up a low-key consultancy to help boost its struggling professional services division, IBM Corp. is making another strategic acquisition aimed at augmenting an even more important part of its business: The SoftLayer public cloud. The object storage technology that Cleversafe Inc. brings to the table should provide a valuable asset ...
