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In latest cloud push, IBM debuts Kubernetes container platform on bare-metal servers
IBM Corp. said today it will offer the Kubernetes software container orchestration platform on bare-metal servers, becoming the first cloud infrastructure provider to make that option available. The IBM Cloud Container Service is aimed at organizations that are running data- and processor-intensive workloads that require the highest levels of speed and capacity. Because bare-metal servers, ...
BIG DATA SPECIAL REPORT
Cloudera founder Mike Olson: ‘We’re moving from automating processes to automating decisions’
The growing momentum of big data in the cloud has been described as a threat to Cloudera Inc., which is ironic given that the company’s original business plan was to sell big data as a cloud service. The market wasn’t ready in 2008, so Cloudera shifted to selling an integrated platform that combines various open-source ...
OneLogin takes cloud identity management inside the corporate firewall
OneLogin Inc. today extended its cloud-based identity management system to on-premises data centers with OneLogin Access, saying it’s the first company to provide integrated access across cloud and legacy applications in a fully integrated product. The company competes in a red-hot market to serve the needs of enterprises that use multiple cloud services and want a single, ...
Nutanix to acquire Netsil in bid to solve container complexity conundrum
Nutanix Inc. is continuing to expand beyond its roots in hyperconverged infrastructure, which uses software to combine computing, storage and networking in one unit, with an agreement today to buy Netsil Inc. for an undisclosed amount. Netsil makes a monitoring and visualization platform for cloud applications that enables organizations to see all services and their dependencies on ...
Dell reports solid growth despite continuing storage struggles
Despite weak storage growth, Dell Technologies Inc.’s overall business picture continued to strengthen in its fourth fiscal quarter thanks to a record year for its servers and networking gear. The computing and storage giant today reported revenue growth that outpaced expenses as well as improving cash flow, a key consideration given a huge amount of ...
AtScale’s universal business intelligence layer adds support for data lakes
AtScale Inc. today updated its business intelligence abstraction platform with support for data lakes of any size and simpler migration of analytics workloads across business intelligence tools. The company said AtScale 6.5 enables users of BI tools to share queries freely with each other, regardless of which front end they prefer. AtScale’s technology provides an abstraction layer ...
BIG DATA SPECIAL REPORT
MapR CEO John Schroeder: ‘We’re still in big data’s early innings’
MapR Technologies Inc. was one of the three high-profile startups — along with Cloudera Inc. and Hortonworks Inc. — to burst upon the scene during the feeding frenzy a few years ago around Hadoop, the open-source big-data software framework. Like its counterparts, the company originally focused on integrating and extending components in the Hadoop ecosystem. ...
Big data transformed the world. Now it’s getting down to business
When the data scientists at messaging software maker Synchronoss Technologies Inc. embarked upon a new project in 2014 to store, manage and extract insights from the massive amounts of data produced in their business, they thought they had found the answer to their prayers: red-hot software with the funny name of Hadoop. Hadoop distributes and ...
Cloudera simplifies data sharing in complex cloud analytics scenarios
Cloudera Inc. is continuing its push into cloud analytics with enhancements to its Altus platform as a service that provide a shared data catalog and contextual consistency to data coming from multiple sources. The Palo Alto, California-based company said the new features make Cloudera Altus with SDX (Shared Data Experience) the best platform for applications that need ...
MapR bids to take containers mainstream with support for Kubernetes and more
MapR Technologies Inc. is stepping up support for containers with a new feature of its Converged Data Platform that provides for persistent storage and enables the use of stateful containerized applications in an automated, cross-platform environment. MapR Data Fabric for Kubernetes is intended to provide consistent data access across cloud and on-premises deployments. Support for ...
