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IBM teams up with Ubuntu for beefy new LinuxONE mainframes
Twenty years ago, the contrast would have been too great to believe. IBM Corp., the stalwart of proprietary enterprise technology, has teamed up with Canonical Ltd. for a brand new line of Linux mainframes geared towards modern cloud workloads. The alliance represents a culmination of its rekindled love-afraid with the open-source ecosystem. The initial spark ...
What you missed in Big Data: Where structured meets unstructured data
With the initial buzz surrounding unstructured settling down, the name of the game has become combining the new kinds of information pouring into the enterprise with traditional relational records for integrated analysis. That’s what Hewlett-Packard Co. faciliate to deliver with the latest version of its columnar database that debuted last week. The “Excavator” release of Vertica extends its ...
What you missed in Cloud: Open-source greatness
The open-source movement has become the driving force behind cloud computing over the past few years, and Red Hat Inc. intends to keep it that way. Its ambitions came to the fore once again last week following a strategic investment in an obscure partner called Tesora Inc. that is working to make OpenStack, the community-developed ...
RIFT.io snags $16 million for its NFV development platform
There is no shortage of startups promising to help organizations transition to software-defined networking, but most focus mainly on the logistics of separating transport capacity from the underlying infrastructure. The exception is RIFT.io Inc., which is launching out of stealth with $16 million in funding to simplify the implementation of the management services running above ...
Red Hat makes a strategic investment in OpenStack database-as-a-service Trove
The OpenStack project was launched five years ago with the singular mission of making it easier to provision and scale on-premise infrastructure, but as adoption slowly started to gain steam, the need spread up the stack to the applications running above. That’s what ended up driving Red Hat Inc. to announce a rare strategic investment ...
DataGravity infuses more automation smarts into its analytic hybrid arrays
While the world’s largest organizations are working to decouple their workloads from underlying hardware, DataGravity Inc. is helping small- and medium-sized businesses move in the exact opposite direction with its analytic storage arrays. And its integrated value proposition was made even more attractive this week following the release of a major overhaul to the management stack ...
Docker Content Trust shores up container security
While the surrounding partner ecosystem works to fill its manageability gaps, Docker Inc. is trying to tackle the other major challenge facing its namesake containerization engine with the addition of a new security feature meant to address the lack of native workload protections. It’s an expansion of the digital signing functionality rolled out for the ...
HP targets speedy new Vertica release at real-time Hadoop clusters
SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE isn’t the only thing turning heads at Hewlett-Packard Co.’s third annual analytics conference in Boston this morning. The opening keynote saw the introduction of a new iteration of its widely-used columnar data store optimized to support real-time processing at massive scale. The “Excavator” release of Vertica packs a specialized access layers developed in collaboration ...
Full circle: Symantec sells off Veritas for $8 billion in cash
A year after unveiling plans to unload its data protection business in a push to refocus on driving growth, Symantec Inc. is finally moving forward with the break-up, although not quite as originally intended. While chief executive Michael Brown initially envisioned separating his outfit into two separate publicly-traded entities, its other half is now being ...
DigitalOcean taps Bitnami’s self-updating app marketplace to expand developer choice
The meteoric rise of DigitalOcean Inc. to the second place on the list of the world’s largest cloud providers isn’t owed to any one factor, but the simplicity of its platform can be credited with an outsized contribution to that growth. And now the startup is doubling down on that ease-of-use through the addition of a ...
