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The rumors were true: Nutanix debuts standalone version of converged stack
Barely three months after word first came out that Nutanix Systems Inc. was working on a hardware-agnostic implementation of the software powering its hugely-popular integrated appliances, the product is making its official debut. Nutanix is seeking to lower the barrier to joining the converged era with what is essentially an onboarding tool that wary CIOs can use ...
Pentaho harnesses Apache Spark for lightning-fast ETL
After a year of development, Pentaho Labs has finally finished adapting the data integration and preparation component of its widely-used business intelligence suite to work with Apache Spark. The integration marks its first major update since being acquired by Hitachi’s storage division earlier this year for a reported $500 to $600 million. The landmark deal ...
IBM unleashes powerful new systems for cloud operators
IBM CEO Virginia Rometty may have pulled out of the commodity server business last year, but she’s as committed as ever to competing on the higher end of the compute spectrum. The latest proof of that came this week in the form of beefy new machines that push the envelope on processing density. The star ...
Bracket Computing injects new security functionality into its super-container
Bracket Computing Inc. has unveiled new security capabilities for its namesake virtualization service aimed at enabling risk-averse organizations to take full advantage of what the public cloud has to offer. The release is the startup’s first major update since originally pulling the curtains back on the technology last October. The Bracket Computing Cell encapsulates applications in ...
DreamHost’s NFV spin-off unveils a network orchestration service for OpenStack
Akanda Inc., the startup that spun out of DreamHost last year to monetize the network virtualization technology powering its public cloud, has released the first stable version of the software with the promise of helping organizations decouple operations from the underlying infrastructure. It has a high bar to meet from the outset. While not packing ...
The ‘OS everywhere’ battle: Canonical has the pieces in place
One of two articles contrasting the strategies Canonical Ltd. and Microsoft are using to seed their respective operating systems across every platform ranging from phone to supercomputer. Read Mike Wheatley’s profile of Microsoft’s strategy here. If you think Microsoft’s much-touted “Windows Everywhere” strategy is aggressive, a closer look at what Canonical Ltd. has been doing ...
What you missed in Cloud: Blurring the competitive lines
Last week saw the rivalry among the top players in the public cloud flare up once again. Dropbox Inc. led the charge with the release of a major update to its iOS client that aims to help workers access their data faster when away from the office. Focusing mainly on increasing the visibility of important ...
What you missed in Big Data: Tuning into the connected signal
The range of potential applications for analytics in the enterprise grew even wider last week after SnapLogic Inc. rolled out a new pipelining capability that extends the reach of its integration service beyond the corporate back-end to the connected universe. The addition promises to help organizations automate the collection of data from the multitutes of ...
Twistlock launches out of stealth to secure the future of containers
The burgeoning container ecosystem grew even bigger this morning after Twistlock exited stealth to tackle what is arguably biggest challenge standing in the way of making the technology ready for production use: security. The ambitious startup believes that the solution starts at the development phase of the application lifecycle. The small footprint of containers has ...
Why the upcoming cloud bursting feature in SQL Server 2016 is a game-changer for databases
Microsoft’s efforts to bring its formidable software portfolio into the hybrid cloud caught up to SQL Server this week with the preview of a new release that includes functionality for automatically offloading transactional information to its infrastructure-as-a-service platform. The addition sets a new bar for relational databases in the on-demand era. The concept of bursting ...
