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Cloud break: Amazon and Microsoft square off in the channel
The cloud war continues to expand beyond the quest to win the hearts and minds of CIOs to include the partner ecosystem, which is playing an increasingly important role in driving the adoption of managed services. In one of the latest development, NGINX, Inc., the company behind the widely-used reverse proxy server of the same name, ...
Is the chief data officer a passing fad? | #CubeConversations
Data analysis is as much about people and processes as it about the technology that makes separating the signal from the noise possible in the first place. But while the overwhelming majority of organizations have adjusted to the new reality of information-driven decisions, at least conceptually, finding professionals with the necessary skills to uncover actionable ...
Oracle jumps into the SQL-on-Hadoop fray with would-be Teradata QueryGrid killer
Just a few years after the concept of structured query tools was first introduced, there are already dozens of vendors offering SQL capabilities for the batch processing platform, from small-time players such as Hadapt and Splice Machine to industry bigwigs like Cloudera. But despite the tremendous market saturation, the latest company to hop on the ...
HP confident it can lead the journey to hybrid clouds | #HPdiscover
Two and a half years after Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman named it as a top priority in her five-year turnaround plan, the cloud remains the former eBay head’s main agenda item. The company recently unified its hybrid computing efforts under the Helion brand in a renewed push for dominance. Steven Dietch and Kerry Bailey, the ...
Microsoft adds business continuity to cloud computing mosaic
Microsoft is continuing along its journey to piece together a hybrid cloud stack at a steady pace, following up the recent introduction of two new Azure-enabled storage arrays with a tuck-in acquisition aimed at positioning the platform-as-a-service as a more viable data protection solution for the traditional enterprise. The software stalwart has gobbled up InMage ...
Salesforce’s bold data play spends $390M for rival RelateIQ
There is no escape from the data analytics tsunami, not even for the world’s top customer relationship management (CRM) firm. Salesforce.com has long offered subscribers access to partner-developed services for uncovering and visualizing insights through its AppExchange marketplace, and provides native reporting capabilities that were recently extended to its application development platform. But in the ...
Late arrival Fujitsu doubles the stakes in the multi-billion dollar cloud investment party
Outpaced and outmaneuvered by nimbler rivals, many of the traditional data center vendors pursuing a slice of the burgeoning public cloud market have found themselves with no other choice but to try and leverage their sheer size – and correspondingly big budgets – to catch up with the race to zero. The latest such slow-moving ...
HP cloud chief shares the inside track on Helion | #HPdiscover
Hewlett-Packard had approached the task of creating a cohesive brand for its cloud portfolio with the typical methodicalness of a corporate giant. Management had the sales organizations put together a list of some 6,000 candidate phrases and present them to the broader workforce, who narrowed down the choice to a small handful from Helion was ...
HP server bosses talk products and strategy | #HPdiscover
Hewlett-Packard Co. is expanding in all directions under the leadership of CEO Meg Whitman, from the OpenStack community through the bleeding edge of electronic component design to, most recently, the high-performance computing market. But amid its aggressive pursuit of new growth opportunities, HP isn’t losing sight of its core server business. Ric Lew and Paul ...
Weekly Cloud review: From OpenStack to AWS
The last few days saw a string of major industry updates spanning the open-source private cloud all the way up to the proprietary public cloud. It was Red Hat that fired the opening shot with the launch of the latest version of its OpenStack distribution, which introduces a host of new features and enhancements aimed ...
