Amazon takes another step to suck up more enterprise data
Amazon Storage Gateway can now run in Microsoft Hyper-V as well as VMware ESXi (and of course Amazon EC2) environments. Welcome to the world of blurred boundaries. Read more »
Cloud adoption: It’s not about the price, stupid
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Remember when the decision to go to Amazon Web Services was all about saving dough? Smart consumers now know that’s not the real reason to move workloads to the cloud. Read more »
Microsoft takes hits after bad PC numbers
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With Q1 PC sales breaking records — and not in a good way — Microsoft is taking heat with two analysts downgrading its shares. Read more »
Dropbox adds single sign-on support to woo more business users
In a bid to make itself more palatable to IT, Dropbox will add single sign-on, SAML support to its business edition. Read more »
Cloud wars to rage on with dueling OpenStack, AWS events next week
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Can’t get enough cloud? Just wait till next week when OpenStack and Amazon Web Services host simultaneous events 3,000 miles apart. Read more »
Upstart Server Density sets sights on RightScale with new cloud management goodies
Scrappy London startup Server Density is adding AWS and Rackspace provisioning capabilities to its existing monitoring service, says co-founder and CEO David Mytton. Read more »
Salesforce.com and Rackspace gear up for mobile developers
Industry giants are adding more development and platform goodies for mobile app developers. This may have the more targeted MBaaS providers a little perplexed. Read more »
Firebase brings Google Docs-like collaboration to its real-time backend
Want to build collaboration into your new applications? You might want to check out Firepad from Firebase. Read more »
Superstorms aside, folks still want to build up their new data centers in New York
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You might think that after two 100-year storms in two years, New York businesses would want to put new data center capacity far, far away. But new research says you would be wrong. Read more »
Serious question: Is it too late for HP Project Moonshot to disrupt anything?
If you want an HP Project Moonshot server, you can get one today. The question is many of the big, webscale companies HP is targeting are already building their own servers. Read more »
From outsider to IBM Fellow in less than 2 years: Neil Bartlett sets a record
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IBM Fellows get access to all of IBM’s toys (maybe even Watson!) and, perhaps more importantly, a hotline to Ginni Rometty. That’s why analysis and risk whiz Neil Bartlett is so happy to join the club. Read more »
The week in cloud: Google and Amazon cut prices (again); OpenStack Grizzly debuts
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Amazon keeps cutting prices of its base level services, but software vendors still say when it comes to deployment in many cases, AWS is still not the most cost-efficient option. Read more »
Seeking startup cred: SAP pushes HANA as a platform for data startups
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Two legacy powers — SAP and Kendall Square (in the guise of hack/reduce) pulled out the stops Friday to woo big data entrepreneurs. SAP wants them to use HANA. Hack/reduce just wants them to stick around. Read more »
You want to crunch top-secret data securely? CryptDB may be the app for that
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A project at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab aims to make crunching of the most top-secret data possible without exposing that data. At all. Read more »
Man bites dog: Rackspace sues “notorious” patent troll
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Rackspace will see Parallel Iron and IP Nav in federal court where it will ask for damages in a bid to stop patent troll abuses Read more »
HP’s Chairman Ray Lane to step down; HP loses two other board members
In news that may boost the spirits of many HP shareholders, Ray Lane is stepping down as chairman of the troubled IT giant. John H. Hammergren and G. Kennedy Thompson will also leave the board. Read more »
Google cracks open access to its compute cloud — a little bit
Getting into Google Compute Engine isn’t impossible, but it isn’t super easy either. You sign up and wait. Now Google is opening the door to new users willing to pay for support. Read more »
Anatomy of a security fix: Postgres launches massive update to address vulnerability
Any time a major security vulnerability is discovered in a popular software product, there’s hell to pay. Here’s how the Postgres community reacted to one such vulnerability. Read more »
OpenStack Grizzly adds scale, storage options. Now, bring on the users
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With the new release, OpenStack continues to add features and perks to its cloud infrastructure stack. What it needs to start showing now is real end-user customers outside the tech bubble. Read more »
A Tableau IPO could validate the big data visualization push — or not
Tableau Software is following rival QlikView in an IPO that may show whether or not data visualization as a hot technology category has legs. Read more »
What is SignalFuse and why should we care?
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Stealthy Silicon Valley startup is in the market for engineers who know distributed systems, data science and statistics. But it’s heritage — co-founders are Karthik Rau formerly of VMware and Phillip Liu out of Facebook — is what piques curiosity. Read more »
Ignition raises $150M fund, opens Silicon Valley office, to back enterprise IT
Enterprise IT is a segment that has been underserved, says Ignition Partners’ Frank Artale, so Ignition launched a new fund to attack that opportunity. Read more »
Marketing automation boom continues with Marketo’s $75 million IPO filing
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Marketo’s filing for an initial public offering is just the latest in a flurry of activity in the super-hot marketing automation space; stay tuned for more. Read more »
MuleSoft rakes in more moolah to connect your applications to the world
MuleSoft wants to push its Anypoint Platform as the Switzerland of application integration,and now it has $37 million to promote that vision. Read more »
Wow. Former Windows phone exec to head Amazon’s mystery mobile project
Amazon hired Charles Kindel, who helped drive Windows 7 Phone development at Microsoft, to lead a new super-secret mobility project. Weird, huh? Read more »
Amazon is the cloud to beat, but Google has the cloud to watch. Here’s why.
So who will be number two in public cloud after Amazon Web Services? Smart money is now on Google Compute Engine. With caveats, of course. Read more »
Cloudmunch aims to automate devops, continuous integration — the whole shebang
For developers who don’t want to put together their own software development-testing-continuous integration-deployment toolsets, Cloudmunch has a service to consider. Read more »
Nebula launches its OpenStack “system”
The long-promised Nebula One cloud system — with its controller appliance — is now available. That piece of hardware could distinguish Nebula from the rest of the OpenStack cloud crowd. Read more »
Dell proxy lays out damned-if-we-do, damned-if-we-don’t quandary
Dell’s proxy filing paints a morose picture of the company’s future with or without increased investment in key business technology segments. Read more »
Google Nose is not really a joke
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Google Nose (now in beta) is an April Fools joke, but computers that smell or even taste things will soon be within the realm of possibility. Just ask IBM. Read more »
The week in cloud: AWS goes mobile; Google vows patent pledge; cloud wars rage on
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New AWS group appears to gird for mobile development; Google issues non-aggression patent pact; and PayPal caught in cloud war crossfire. Read more »
Will “hybrid public” cloud give VMware its mojo back?
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VMware is banking that its brand and customer base will make it a power in public cloud infrastructure. Others bet that VMware’s “hybrid public” cloud plan is too little too late. Read more »
Exclusive: Cumulogic snags seed money from Crunchfund
New seed funding brings total investment in the cloud services platform provider to about $1 million, says Cumulogic CEO Michael Soby. Read more »
Rackspace cozies up to developers with Exceptional Tool Services acquisition
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Its latest acquisition of error-tracking and Redis To Go services illustrates Rackspace’s desire to offer more developer-friendly goods and services. Read more »
PayPal to stick with VMware, at least in part, says VMware
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A claim by a third party that PayPal, a big VMware customer, was dumping VMware for OpenStack, touched off firestorm, this week. Read more »
RightScale says its free price-tracking service can wring the most out of cloud deployments
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Don’t like the cost of your cloud deployment? Wait a second, it’ll change. And Rightscale says it can help you make sense out of all those changes and cut your costs. Read more »
Demandbase nets $15M to build out its B2B marketing database and sell it better
The B2B marketing company will use a new round led by Scale Venture Partners to build out both its database and the sales and marketing troops to push it. Read more »
New Amazon CloudHSM service vows enterprise-grade security
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CloudHSM could make regulation-constrained companies and agencies more comfortable entrusting workloads to the Amazon Web Services public cloud. Read more »
Top techies tout their top tech tools for webscale computing
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Developers love the latest and greatest tooling. Whether it’s Sawzall, a Google language that bridges declarative and procedural worlds. Or Kafka, a real-time framework for managing data streams. Here are four or five tools that deserve a look. Read more »
FWIW, Mark Hurd squelches Dell rumors
Oracle co-president Mark Hurd, in response to a question, indicates zero interest in becoming Dell CEO. Blackstone Group reportedly had Hurd on its short list of prospective picks should it win the Dell deal. Read more »
