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Huddle caps year of explosive growth with $51 million in funding
Cloud-based collaboration provider Huddle Inc. has raised $51 million in funding from new and existing investors to extend its revenue momentum into the coming year. The firm saw a surge of demand for its namesake platform in the last year that sent enterprise sales tripling over the first three quarters of 2014. Huddle also secured ...
Report: Global co-location industry soared past $25 billion in 2014
The global market for co-location services rocketed past the $25 billion mark in 2014, according to a new study of 1,086 data center operators around the world by 451 Research. The growth underscores the broader trend of organizations outsourcing more of their infrastructure to specialized service providers, a shift that International Data Corp. predicts will bring ...
Virtualization pain will yield flexibility gains for ambitious telcos | #HPDiscover
Network functions virtualization (NFV) is usually discussed in the context of standards and vendor consortia, but according to Saar Gillai of HP, the slow-rolling push to help carriers modernize their infrastructure heralds a much broader shift that could revolutionize the telecommunications industry. The veteran executive recently returned to theCUBE at HP’s Discover conference in Barcelona to share ...
HP’s novel SDN app store draws praise, users | #HPDiscover
Few trends have adapted as well from the consumer world to the enterprise as application marketplaces. Dell recently rolled out a provider-neutral catalog of cloud services, Salesforce.com Inc. is launching a selection of partner-developed extensions to its Desk.com platform and now HP is joining the fray with one of the most original adaptations yet: an ...
IDC says one-third of IT equipment spending now goes to cloud deployments
Nearly one-third of combined worldwide server, disk storage, and Ethernet switch infrastructure spending in the third quarter of 2014 came from cloud deployments, with payouts split nearly evenly between public and private clouds, according to a recent report from International Data Corp. (IDC). The research firm’s new Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker also shows ...
Flaw in single server opened door to record bank cyber-heist
A single mis-configured server has been identified as the attack vector in the historic breach that saw the still-unidentified culprits steal information belonging to 83 million JPMorgan Chase & Co. customers over the summer, according to The New York Times. The revelation brings to light the challenges of fully protecting sprawling corporate networks in the ...
Symantec boosts OpenStack Foundation even as it sues some members
The OpenStack Foundation accepted Symantec Corp. into its exclusive club of Gold-level sponsors this week, citing its substantial contributions to the cloud operating system. The move marks a major step forward for the security vendor’s involvement with the project, with which it has had a somewhat tumultuous prior relationship. Symantec has been active in development ...
HP thinks it’s got a better way to run Hadoop | #HPdiscover
Running Hadoop on converged infrastructure is not a particularly attractive proposition. The massive workloads that the data-crunching framework is designed to handle require an entirely different ratio of compute and storage resources than the typical enterprise application demands. That balance can be all but impossible to cost-effectively address when the two come in a single ...
Judge refuses to lift Autonomy albatross from HP’s neck
The botched acquisition of Autonomy Corp., keeps coming back to haunt Hewlett-Packard Co.. Three years and a leadership change after plunking down $11.7 billion for the British analytics provider, HP has hit another legal stumbling block as a U.S. District Judge on Friday rejected a settlement that would have released company executives from culpability. Judge Charles Breyer ...
Oracle gobbles up Datalogix as it courts marketers with cloud services
Oracle gave itself an early Christmas present on Monday with the acquisition of Datalogix Inc., a top supplier of consumer spending information for use in analytics. No financial details were disclosed for the deal, which is the latest in a string of acquisitions intended to make the database giant’s cloud platform more attractive to marketing ...
