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Datto extends data protection to new frontiers in massive update
With the enterprise technology conference season now in full swing, Datto Inc. is seizing the moment to join the fray. The backup and recovery powerhouse unleashed a barrage of new updates at its annual partner meeting this morning that extend the reach of its data protection capabilities to the new systems and environments where organizations ...
Loggly adds derived fields to cloud-based monitoring service
The battle over machine-generated data is heating up with the introduction of an important new analytic capability from Loggly Inc. that promises to help administrators work faster through the vast and growing amounts of information coming off their infrastructure. It’s designed to provide a more productive alternative to manually looking for specific records. That has ...
IBM commits 3,500 engineers to Apache Spark
Between the new features and integrations introduced at its third annual community meetup this morning, Apache Spark is marking a landmark new endorsement from IBM, which has decided to back the project to the tune of over 3,500 engineers who will now actively participate in the development of new functionality. The opening contribution of the initiative is ...
What you missed in Big Data: Open-source power
The central role of the open-source movement in analytics rose back to the surface last week after LinkedIn Inc. released another one of its internally-developed data crunching technologies under a free license to help promote emerging use cases. And in particular, performing real-time business intelligence at the kind of scale where the traditional databases typically ...
What you missed in Cloud: Applications come first
Last week saw the rivalry among the giants of the infrastructure-as-a-service world intensify even further after the release of several new price cuts and features from Amazon Inc., most notably an option for customers to use their own encryption keys for data in its object storage service. That ticks another key item off the privacy checklist for the ...
Amazon’s new M4 general-purpose instance packs up to 40 cores
For Amazon Inc., infrastructure-as-a-service is not just about chasing Moore’s law. The latest proof of that came this week in the form of a new iteration of its general-purpose instances that propels the core count deep into double-digit territory and upgrades the underlying silicon to a custom variation of Intel’s newest E5-2676 v3 Haswell architecture. ...
Microsoft adds Linux monitoring to Azure in continued open-source push
Whatever trace of doubt that there may have remained about Microsoft’s commitment to Linux in the open-source ecosystem is now likely gone following the addition of a free monitoring utility to its public cloud for tracking the activity of instances running the operating system. It’s the newest gesture in what is shaping up as a highly aggressive campaign ...
SolidFire beefs up its flash arrays with new data services
Flash arrays may be miles ahead of their disk-based predecessors when it comes to performance, but there’s still a lot of catching-up to do up the stack in the software layer, at least for some of the newer players that haven’t had much time to build out their management software yet. SolidFire Inc. is now ...
Cisco flaunts new switches and hybrid cloud capabilities at Live 2015
Hot on the heels of the big launches from HP and Nutanix Inc. at their respective events, it’s now Cisco Systems Inc.’s turn in the spotlight with the introduction of new solutions on the second day of its Live conference that bring its software-defined networking and cloud strategies much closer together. Leading the launch are ...
Google open-sources homegrown SDN configuration tech
While the stated goal of the software-defined networking movement is shifting managment up the stack, it’s also driving significant changes at the bottom layers, where Google hopes to enable some much-needed standardization with an internally-developed configuration model that it’s now releasing for free. The contribution is the latest fruit of a low-key initiative that is proving ...
