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What you missed in Cloud: DevOps-as-a-service
The past week saw the cloud spotlight turn back to the development community with the launch of new capabilities aimed at fostering the creation of the web services changing how organizations operate. Nitros.io Inc. set the wheels in motion with the debut of a reworked version of its managed application platform adapted for the needs ...
What you missed in Big Data: Scaling up and out
Scalability emerged as the main theme of the analytics world last week as key vendors upped the ante on the capacity of their respective platforms in the fight over enterprise spending. Teradata Corp. went down the density route with the launch of a new number-crunching appliance that packs up to four times as much storage as ...
HP aims beefy new OpenFlow-enabled switch at campus netwoks
Hot on the heels of entering the commodity networking business to go after hyperscale data centers, Hewlett-Packard Co. is returning to the proprietary world with a new campus switch that uses the latest iteration of its homegrown packet processor to provide a substantial speed boost over the competition. In particular, the 5400R zl2 v3 series targets ...
VMware launches new VDI capabilities… for Citrix users?
It’s not often that a vendor introduces new features for customers of its biggest competitor, but VMware Inc. did exactly that this morning with the launch of a profile management toolkit that works with desktop virtualization software from Citrix Systems Inc. in addition to its own platform. The offering is based on technology from the ...
What CloudStack? After three years, Citrix moves back into OpenStack’s embrace
Virtualization powerhouse Citrix Systems Inc. has become the latest sponsor of the OpenStack Foundation in a major change of direction that could spell the beginning of the end for its homegrown alternative. That project has been lagging behind its more widely-known rival in adoption for quite some time. Now that its main backer has apparently ...
EMC’s disappointing first quarter earnings rekindle fears of forced split-up
EMC Corp. can expect a harder time trying to sell investors on its federation model after posting a mixed earnings report for the first quarter that highlights the growing challenges of the competitive balancing act underpinning the strategy. Although that’s not immediately apparent from the top line. The storage giant sold $5.6 billion worth of ...
VMware is becoming a Linux distributor to compete with container rivals
The old saying, “if you can’t beat ’em, join’ em” rang true this week with the introduction of a free Linux distribution from VMware, Inc., the proprietary kingpin of the server world. The move marks the latest turning point in its strategy to address the rise of containers, but the virtualization giant’s strategy is far more ...
IBM’s first-quarter earnings highlight the difficult path ahead to financial escape velocity
The industry marked another milestone from IBM this week, but there’s little reason to celebrate. The enterprise technology giant reported lower revenues once again in a bleak yet unsurprising earnings report for the first quarter that caps off three straight years of decline characterized by a steady erosion of its legacy businesses. That wear is ...
Ubuntu 15.04 touts software-defined smarts and safer containers
After more than a year of development, Canonical Ltd. is finally rolling out the latest version of its popular Linux distribution into general availability with a slew of new features that take direct aim at cloud workloads. Chief among the additions is the first major release of its security-focused homegrown containerization engine. LXD made its ...
Centrify debuts privileged access breach buster for the hybrid cloud
Identity management powerhouse Centrify Corp. is launching a new service at the RSA Conference this morning aimed at extending the control that organizations have over user access within their networks outside the firewall. It promises to help address the new realities of information governance in the cloud era. The growing amounts of data that workers ...
