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Docker leaps into production with version 1.0 | 15 months of milestones
Docker, the startup behind the popular open-source Linux containerization engine of the same name, is ready to take on the enterprise – or at least so it claims. The company officially completed the first leg of its ambitious development roadmap this morning with the launch of Docker 1.0, which brings the project a major step ...
What you missed in Cloud: where public meets private
The incumbents are no longer alone on the hybrid computing bandwagon. Amazon, the world’s largest provider of public cloud services, entered the fray this week with the release of a connector for VMware’s vCenter Server platform, which is used to manage environments running its widely-used ESXi hypervisor. The company touts that the integration allows virtualization ...
IBM flash array strategy mastermind talks tech + market trends | #IBMedge
Woody Hutsell had seen technologies come and go in the 14 years he’s been in the memory industry, but the underlying focus on enabling faster data access never changed. The former Texas Memory Systems (TMS) executive, who joined Big Blue following its acquisition of his old company to spearhead product strategy for the newly absorbed ...
theCUBE spotlight: Intel CIO Kim Stevenson’s key takeaways on the future of IT
In closing its latest round of funding, Cloudera has not only secured sufficient capital to fuel operations until its eventual public offering but also gained an important addition to the team in Kim Stevenson, the CIO of lead investor Intel. As the newest member of the Hadoop distributor’s board, the executive brings with her valuable ...
Broadcom jumps the cellular baseband ship to escape competition
Semiconductor maker Broadcom announced this week that it has hired investment bank JP Morgan to help it exit the market for mobile baseband processors following years of unprofitability blamed on intense competition from the likes of Qualcomm and Intel. The move sent the company’s shares soaring 10 percent to over $35. Broadcom hopes to sell ...
Picking the best tool for the job: Hybrid vs. all-flash
Flash storage offers a number of compelling advantages over traditional disk. As Wikibon detailed in a February research alert, solid-state drives not only outperform their mechanical counterparts but require less power and space as well. And since they don’t have any moving parts, SSDs also generate less heat, which translates into a longer lifespan. Yet ...
For the sake of business : SAP focuses on Hadoop, finance + new pricing
Enterprise workers today expect the same consumer-grade experiences in the workplace as they are used to in their private lives, a requirement that is driving demand for simplicity CIOs are struggling to address amid the proliferation of connected devices. That growing gap between what the business needs and what IT organizations can deliver is the ...
Hadoop vendors filling holes throughout entire analytics lifecycle | #HadoopSummit recap
The third annual Hadoop Summit in San Jose is off to a flying start with thousands in attendance and a record number of sponsors and exhibitors representing the full industry gamut, from incumbent vendors fighting to hold onto their turf to the ambitious startups looking to take their place. It’s the latter group that stole ...
Bright future ahead of Cloudera and Intel after mammoth $900M funding round
Just ahead of the third annual Hadoop Summit, which kicks off later this morning in San Jose, Cloudera revealed that it has closed the unprecedented $900 million round of funding it announced back in March. The financing includes a $160 million investment led by financial giant T. Rowe Price and another $740 million thrown in ...
Concurrent lands $10M to catalyze the Big Data app economy
Concurrent, a San Francisco-based startup working to simplify the development of applications atop Hadoop, announced on Monday that it has raised $10 million in Series B financing led by new investor Bain Capital Ventures. Existing backers Rembrandt Ventures and True Ventures also participated in the round, which brings the firm’s total funding to nearly $15 ...
