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Gartner: Docker not ready for enterprise prime time quite yet
Linux containers are the service delivery mechanism of choice for many of the world’s top web companies, including Google, which employs the technology to serve up billions of application instances each and every week. But the paradigm is still a long way from becoming viable for the traditional enterprise, says a new Gartner report. The problem ...
Citrix acquires Sanbolic to open new converged infrastructure front against VMware
Citrix Systems Inc. is apparently plotting an entry into converged infrastructure that could catch rival VMware Inc. off guard in the race to the software-defined data center. The company showed its hand on Monday by acquiring Sanbolic Inc. to fill the missing storage element of its ambitious strategy. Sanbolic has developed a platform that enables organizations ...
What you missed in Big Data: mining value from unstructured data
The enterprise analytics crowd kicked off the new year with a string of major developments aimed at addressing the explosion in use cases for unstructured data over the past 12 months. FoundationDB Inc. set the train in motion on Monday after revealing plans to expand its namesake key-value store with a new component for exposing ...
Chief security officers should look to the public cloud as a role model in 2015
The number of attack vectors into the enterprise is increasing with every added device and cloud service while hackers are only becoming more skilled at exploiting the growing disarray of the corporate network. That explosive concoction will require chief security officers to fundamentally rethink how they approach online threats in the next 12 months. This ...
Microsoft and Google strike back at AWS with their own cloud upgrades
The war for the public cloud continues apace. Days after Amazon.com Inc. rolled out the latest batch of improvements to its dominant infrastructure-as-a-service platform, rivals are hitting back with their own upgrades in the opening skirmish of 2015. Microsoft fired the opening salvo with the launch of three additional services on Azure, beginning with new G-Series ...
What you missed in Cloud: Infrastructure players keep up frenzied pace
The cloud witnessed a predictable post-holiday surge in activity last week as players from every corner of the ecosystem scrambled to make up for the lost time. Blue Box Inc., one of the last remaining pure-play OpenStack hosting providers, set the pace on Tuesday by raising an additional $4 million in a second round of ...
Alert Logic swoops up Achilles Guard for security analytics
Alert Logic Inc., one of the fast-growing security providers capitalizing on the need of organizations to protect the increasing amounts of data moving to the cloud, has picked up Achilles Guard Inc. to inject more analytics into its portfolio. The deal is the latest in the wave of consolidation that has swept through the segment ...
Machine learning startup GraphLab changes gears with $18.5 million funding and new name
GraphLab Inc. revealed a major change of course on Thursday after raising another $18.5 million from investors and re-branding itself as it transitions beyond its academic roots. The move comes three months after the startup hit a turning point in its strategy with the first major release of its analytics platform. The company now operating ...
Study says password recycling is growing enterprise security threat
Despite the abundance of services for managing and protecting business data kept beyond the firewall, a new report from Netskope Inc. reveals that cloud security is very much a work-in-progress for most organizations. The information governance startup has found that as many as 15 percent of enterprise workers have had their service credentials compromised at ...
IBM bids for exploding German cloud market with local data center
IBM opened the first German data center for its SoftLayer cloud infrastructure subsidiary on Wednesday as part a broader effort to reach international markets amid heightened privacy fears that have made foreign organizations reluctant to trust their data to American cloud providers. With its Federal Data Protection Act, Germany presents one of the strictest privacy regimes in ...
