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New community efforts bring OpenStack closer to cross-cloud interoperability
The fourth annual OpenStack Summit is kicking off with a bang in Vancouver with the launch of a new community certification initiative that has rallied some of the biggest names from the upstream ecosystem behind a common challenge: interoperability. Or more accurately, the lack thereof. Providing the ability to move applications among different kinds of ...
What you missed in Cloud: Moving into the future
Catching-up was the main theme in the public cloud last week, at least among the traditional vendors that generated most of the headlines, who moved several steps close toward matching the smaller and nimbler competition. Oracle led the charge with the announcement of support for an emerging component of OpenStack that promises to make the ...
The OpenStack ecosystem lines up behind Mirantis
Mirantis Inc. is consolidating its power over the OpenStack ecosystem with the introduction of a new certification program that aims to help broaden the support for its already widely used distribution of the free cloud platform. No fewer than five partners are throwing their weight behind the effort on launch. That brings the total number ...
What you missed in Big Data: Hyper-personalization
Analytics passed a major milestone on the road to ubiquity last week with the launch of new capabilities that extend the reach of data-driven decisions even deeper into our digital lives. An up-and-coming startup called Jivox Inc. set the ball rolling with the introduction of an advertising platform that promises to provide the ultimate customized experience. ...
Now AppDynamics wants to help you monitor your containers, too
Organizations looking for operational tools to help support their emerging container use cases now have another option to choose from on the monitoring front courtesy of AppDynamics Inc., which has extended its namesake performance tracking service to support the fast-growing virtualization format. The move takes aim at what is shaping up as a potentially massive ...
Percolate bags $40 million to horn in on Salesforce and Oracle’s marketing territory
Everybody loves an underdog, even in the world of corporate marketing. Percolate Industries, Inc. hopes to turn that to its advantage with $40 in fresh capital from investors that will be spent trying to beat the giants of cloud-based engagement at their own game, an effort that has proven surprisingly successful so far. MasterCard, Inc., ...
New exploits show SAP less secure than previously thought
After Heartbleed and POODLE, organizations relying on software from SAP SE to power their operations now have a new exploit to worry about that poses a potentially even bigger threat. The vulnerability lies in the way business data is handled when traveling across the network. The German business intelligence powerhouse employs a proprietary implementation of ...
IBM brings its analytics clout to multi-channel marketing
IBM is following the competition onto the data-driven marketing bandwagon with the introduction of new cloud services promising to provide a centralized way of tracking and acting upon buying patterns across online channels. The launch takes aim at one of the biggest challenges in the trade. The proliferation of new avenues through which to communicate ...
Gartner pours cold water on Hadoop’s party with pessimistic adoption survey
The discrepancy that so often exists between the hype and reality of emerging technologies has caught up to Hadoop, according to a new study from Gartner, Inc. that offers a current view into the state of adoption among the traditional enterprise crowd. The picture is not pretty. Only about one-quarter of the 284 technology and ...
Citrix revamps its hybrid cloud arsenal at Synergy 2015
Attendees at Citrix Synergy 2015 were treated to the customary barrage of updates from the virtualization powerhouse yesterday in what marks a major step forward along its journey toward the hybrid cloud. The arguably most significant change is coming to NetScaler, the application delivery software that ties the on- and off-premise components of the package together. ...
