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How containers complete Microsoft’s grand cloud strategy
Six months after revealing plans to bring containers to Windows, Microsoft Corp. is making good on the promise with a homegrown implementation of the lightweight virtualization format that offers a convenient new deployment option for enterprise applications. But the impact of the technology extends far beyond simplifying operations to its entire cloud strategy. Under the ...
Tintri augments its storage stack for better DevOps
Tintri Inc. is rolling out a major update to the software powering its hybrid storage arrays that introduces new capabilities for fine-tuning operations in large virtual environments. One of the most notable additions is an optional extension that takes advantage of the latest development in the world of hypervisors. That is of course containers, or ...
New Oracle cloud services seek retailers’ hearts and minds
Oracle Corp. is rolling out six new services to its burgeoning cloud arsenal that are meant to help large retailers address their evolving operational requirements more effectively. The additions continue the trend of providers increasingly turning to industry-specific functionality for differentiation. That shift is most pronounced in the competition between the database giant and its traditional ...
Salesforce.com targets B2B lead nurturing with new services
Salesforce.com Inc. is expanding its cloud-based marketing platform with two new services that draw on real-time data about prospects to increase the success of deal-making. The launch promises to help extend the scope of targeting efforts beyond the initial engagement to every step of the way toward a purchase. The additions implement the business-to-business sales ...
PLUMgrid ups the ante for OpenStack networking
PLUMgrid Inc. is rolling out a new version of its namesake software-defined networking overlay that promises to take more of the manual work out of managing traffic in large-scale implementations of OpenStack. The area where the update should make that labor reduction most noticeable is monitoring. The latest version of the PLUMgrid Open Networking Suite ...
Investors chuck $17 million at Palerra for a piece of its cloud security action
The venture capital community’s appetite for cloud security startups reached another height this morning after Palerra Inc. snagged $17 million in financing to build out its managed threat detection and response service. The round continues a flurry of recent funding activity in that space. Investors previously injected the same amount into a second emerging provider ...
Basho targets write-intensive workloads with database update
Basho Technologies Inc. is releasing a new version of its popular key-value store that promises to handle large amounts of unstructured information faster and more reliably than the current version. The update targets the requirements of the global organizations at the forefront the data explosion. In particular, Riak 2.1 tries to cater to write-intensive workloads ...
IIX marks latest $20 million round with second peering acquisition
Peering startup IIX Inc. has raised an additional $20 million in funding less than six months after its previous round to continue scaling global operations. And just like last time, the fresh capital is quickly being put to use with an acquisition that is poised to speed the ambitious expansion plan considerably. The newly absorbed ...
Cloudonomics: The race to zero is moving up the stack
The trademark margin-cutting strategy of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has disrupted brick-and-mortar commerce and forever changed consumer spending, but that’s only the prelude to the future impact on the enterprise. The retail-turned-cloud-giant’s model is now redefining the fundamental economics of technology services in a new area: software. Amazon spearheaded the shift from selling hardware by ...
Amazon edges toward hybrid cloud embrace with CodeDeploy updates
Amazon has extended its recently introduced code deployment service to work with on-premise machines in a small but significant expansion signaling a strategic change of focus toward hybrid clouds. It’s among the last of the major providers to have seriously embraced the paradigm. The retail-turned-cloud-giant spent the better part of the last few years advocating ...
