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SoftLayer takes center stage : Analysts discuss IBM cloud, AWS market | #IBMpulse
The record attendance at IBM’s recently concluded Pulse 2014 summit speaks to how far the transitioning technology company has come in its journey to become an “Amazon for the enterprise,” as SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier puts it. The cloud show drew some 11,000 practitioners and executives, an estimated 70 percent of whom attended the event ...
Compuware updates Big Data APM platform with enhanced Hadoop, NoSQL support
Compuware isn’t exactly the first name you would associate with open source Big Data technologies, but the mainframe software powerhouse is determined to change that as it diversifies beyond legacy computing into new growth areas. The latest version of the company’s application performance management (APM) solution offers enhanced support for Hadoop and NoSQL, and provides ...
MapR appoints new Australia/New Zealand head
A few days after opening its fourth Asia Pacific branch in Seoul, MapR has announced the appointment of Justin Bock as country manager for Australia and New Zealand. The executive will be responsible for driving sales and fostering strategic partnerships in the region, which ranks as one of the fastest growing parts of the global ...
Cisco bakes Sourcefire tech into open cloud app management tool
Cloud applications are the next frontier for the modern enterprise, providing prepackaged functionality that can be consumed on demand under a scalable pricing model. Coming under increased pressure to address maturing user expectations, CIOs are moving to bring their on-premise environments up to par with that of their providers, and automation is emerging as a ...
SK Telecom’s new mobile cloud accelerator
As sales of smartphones and tablets continue to outpace PC shipments, demand for consistent experiences across devices is accelerating the adoption of cloud services in both the enterprise and the consumer market. The blurring line between the two segments underscores a fundamental shift in user expectations that SK Telecom, South Korea’s largest wireless operator and ...
DataStax adds in-memory option to Cassandra database
DataStax is continuing its campaign against Oracle with DataStax Enterprise 4.0, a new version of its flagship Cassandra distro that presents a potentially more affordable alternative to the database giant’s in-memory option. Like Larry Ellison, the NoSQL startup is touting a 100-fold increase in performance. Besides being fast, the in-memory option introduced with DataStax Enterprise ...
VMware expands market reach in SDDC push
VMware is pushing beyond familiar virtualization ground in a bid to gain a head start in the software-defined data center, an emerging paradigm that requires a fundamental re-imagining of IT from the underlying infrastructure all the way up to the services that run on top and the growing amounts of corporate data that live in ...
Broad support for Pivotal spin off : Cloud Foundry goes to independent foundation
Pivotal, the buzzed-about cloud analytics venture that spun out of EMC and VMware early last year, is establishing a formal open governance model for Cloud Foundry to give the community a bigger voice in the development of the platform. The reins will be handed over to an independent foundation that is set to begin operations ...
The state of Big Data : Trends in the trenches | #BigDataSV
These past couple of weeks have been busy for theCUBE, with a continuous stream of new and repeat guests making appearances during SiliconANGLE’s BigDataSV event at the Hilton Santa Clara and an equally packed agenda over at the O’Reilly Strata Conference across the street. Our coverage kicked into high gear after the release of Wikibon’s ...
IBM moves up the cloud stack with Cloudant buy
Broadening its definition of the cloud, IBM is moving beyond Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) as part of an ambitious push to capture a larger slice of the burgeoning enterprise cloud market. But unlike the retail giant, Big Blue has decided to take the inorganic route and buy out firms with established offerings, a strategy that allowed it ...
