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 »
Microsoft brings 3D maps to Excel users
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Microsoft has rolled out a new visualization feature for Excel called GeoFlow. It’s definitely pretty, and if you’re using Windows and trying to track activity over space and time, it might be useful, too. Read more »
IBM ponies up $1B to add flash to more products and speed up big data
IBM announced Thursday a $1 billion bet on flash storage, following on similar moves in the past. Flash has been hot as of late, and this bet could pay off nicely. Read more »
Searching for document hidden in multiple clouds? Simplexo wants to help you with that
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Employees use multiple cloud services, and IT wants document security. Enter Simplexo with its SearchYourCloud software for encryption and searching across multiple cloud storage services. Read more »
Secure cloud storage outfit Tresorit posts $10K hacker bounty
The Hungarian firm is trying to set itself apart from rivals by inviting hackers to do their worst on its cryptography. GigaOM readers can also get a free 50GB account for life. 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 »
The creators of the next generation of IT are at Structure 2013
The IT industry is undergoing a cataclysm of innovation that is disrupting big businesses, offering opportunities for entrepreneurs and redefining the role of IT in the corporation. GigaOM’s Structure event helps you understand what’s next. 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 »
MarkLogic nets $25M to keep up enterprise NoSQL pitch
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MarkLogic has raised $25 million in new venture funding to add more customers for its NoSQL database. It wants to go after companies that have looked to longtime software vendors for relational solutions. Read more »
CFOs get bill shock too: Wandera lands $7M to optimize mobile data for enterprises
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Just a few months old, Wandera has attracted a sizable Series A round with Bessemer Venture Partners as the sole investor. Wandera’s technology, mobile data optimization, is nothing new, but its enterprise focus is. Read more »
Want to text from your home phone? Zipwhip brings landlines to the SMS club
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SMS formerly has been a mobile-phone only club, but cloud-messaging provider Zipwhip has virtualized the SMS client, allowing you to send text messages from any wireline number — if not from an actual wired phone. Read more »
Intel moves forward on new Avoton microserver chips and rack innovations
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Intel is coming out with new microserver chips and supporting rack innovations for webscale companies. But it shouldn’t stop there, because competition for webscale business is fierce. Read more »
The Empire acquires the rebel alliance: Mendeley users revolt against Elsevier takeover
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Mendeley, an open collaboration platform for scientific research, has promised that it won’t become less open after being acquired by journal publisher Elsevier, but some prominent users aren’t waiting around. Read more at paidContent »
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 »
Promising to remake cloud databases for web scale, ParElastic gets $5.7M
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A startup called ParElastic thinks it can change the cloud database game by helping companies scale their MySQL environments without resorting to sharding or deploying an entirely new database. Read more »
Cloud storage security service BoxCryptor previews business-friendly new version
BoxCryptor 2, available now in technical preview form, makes it far easier to securely share access permissions for files stored in services such as DropBox and SkyDrive. It also offers master keys for bosses. Read more »
MongoDB FTW: Fast-growing 10gen hires first CFO
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MongoDB creator 10gen is growing again, this time with the addition of Sydney Carey as the company’s first CFO. She’ll help lay the infrastructure for plans to more than double in size in two years as it eyes an eventual IPO. 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 »
ForgeRock grabs $15M to push access and identity management software
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Formed after the Oracle bought Sun, ForgeRock has emerged as a contender in the access and identity management space, and it seeks more consumer-facing deployments. 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 »
OpenDaylight could threaten SDN startups, or new alliances could crumble
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The newly formed OpenDaylight Project could spark wider adoption of software-defined networks with open-source code on the way. It could challenge existing SDN startups. Or the organization could fracture. Read more »
Private cloud mania drives data center expansion, survey says
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The desire to implement private cloud infrastructure is among the top priorities for large companies in North America that expect to expand data centers this year or next year. 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 »
AppMesh says its mobile apps will help salespeople get out in front of email and deals
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Two former Salesforce.com employees who founded AppMesh have developed iPad and iPhone apps salespeople can use to tackle email and track sales deals on the go. Read more »
Network vendors launch open-source OpenDaylight Project to standardize SDN
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Cisco, HP, Juniper and other network vendors are joining up to standardize software-defined networking with products built on OpenFlow. The vendor-led consortium could help the big vendors protect their place in the data center. 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 »
Allen Stern, blogging pioneer and entrepreneur, passes away — we will miss you Allen
An early blogger and startup founder who had recently launched a new business focused on health and fitness, Allen Stern passed away last week and was remembered by his friends and blogging colleagues. 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 »
Sponsored post: Unconstrained data center networks for the cloud era
Nuage Networks makes network services as dynamically available as virtualized applications need them to be, in a programmable and automated multitenant infrastructure. By utilizing the key tenants of software-defined networks (SDN), Nuage Networks brings the power of NOW to data center networks everywhere. 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 »
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 »
Flexiant raises $5.7M to push its cloud orchestration tools into the U.S.
Flexiant targets service providers – particularly telcos – that want to become infrastructure-as-a-service wholesalers. It’s just starting to gain traction in Europe, and now it wants to push into the U.S. as well. Read more »
Caves, ships and aging gasometers: 3 unlikely homes for data centers
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A company wants to build a data center inside a 19th century gasometer — a building for storing gases — in Stockholm. It’s the latest bizarre location for construction of a data center. 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 »
