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The inside track on FalconStor’s software-defined storage pivot | #CubeConversations
FalconStor Software Inc. is back. That’s the message chief exec Gary Quinn (right) and marketing VP Tim Sheets conveyed in their interview with theCUBE on the occasion of the the debut of the company’s software-defined storage platform this morning. FreeStor is the culmination of a journey that started over a decade ago in the era of tape ...
Forget your passwords! Microsoft shifts focus to biometric authentication in Windows 10
Organizations have another reason to start making plans to adopt Windows 10 now that Microsoft has revealed that the next release of its operating system will support biometric authentication, enabling security administrators to ditch passwords in favor of stronger security measures. The feature implements the second version of the Fast IDentity Online (FIDO) specification from ...
When size does matter: IBM bets big on software-defined storage
IBM has a new vision for software-defined storage that could turn the tide against its rivals in the competition to power the data centers of tomorrow. At the focal point of the strategy is a platform unveiled today that draws on the enterprise technology stalwart’s single biggest strength: its size. Spectrum Accelerate is a standalone implementation ...
SUSE launches software-defined storage platform
After more than a quarter of testing, SUSE Linux GmbH is finally releasing its software-defined storage platform into general availability. The launch fills in another important part of the company’s cloud stack amid increasing competition from rivals. The biggest threat to SUSE’s ambitions for the software-defined data center is Red Hat Inc., its old arch-nemesis ...
Amazon and Google vie to improve administrative insight
Operations professionals benefited from crossfire between two of the public cloud’s biggest names this week as the fight over enterprise workloads shifted to the monitoring front. Amazon fired the opening salvo with the launch of a deployment tracker aimed at providing increased administrative visibility. Upon initialization, AWS Config creates a snapshot of an environment and ...
What you missed in Big Data: Pushing the boundaries
The analytics wave is expanding to new frontiers as intense competition drives vendors outside their traditional comfort zones. Last week saw good examples of that repositioning as Datameer Inc. pulled the curtains back on a cloud-based implementation of its business intelligence platform. The new option bundles the software with one of two managed Hadoop services ...
What you missed in Cloud: Disrupting consumption models
The promise of cloud computing remains elusive for the traditional enterprise nearly a decade after the trend first reared its head. Organizations are caught in a trade-off between control and flexibility that makes it difficult to realize the full benefits of the model, but striking the right balance became a notch easier last week as ...
Catalogic unleashes ECX 2.0 to tame duplicate data in the enterprise
Catalogic Software Inc. has launched a new version of its copy management platform that promises to help organizations make more efficient use of their storage capacity amid the rapid growth in unstructured data. The release is the culmination of a journey that started three years ago at an entirely different company. The technology at the ...
Rising SDN wave, Cisco sees demand for programmable gear soar in the second quarter
Software-defined networking poses a threat to the expensive proprietary appliances that the current industry leaders make most their living selling, but that hasn’t stopped Cisco Systems Inc. from achieving record growth in the second quarter. In contrast to other industry giants that have seen revenue growth slow in the face of customer demand for services ...
AppDirect lands $50 million to put “on-demand” into cloud services
AppDirect Inc. has snagged $50 million from investors to bring the one-click purchase model that Apple helped popularize on mobile devices to cloud services in the enterprise. The capital infusion tops off a wave of industry interest in making it easier for organizations to consume technology. It was only a week ago that EMC introduced ...
