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 »
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 »
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 »
The solution for better and faster storage may lie in DSSD, a stealthy chip startup backed by Andreas von Bechtolsheim, that counts several members of the Sun ZFS team as founders. Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Unprecedented demands on applications have given rise to new requirements for IT management. Today’s business demands require a new breed of APM that collects data continuously, rather than on an ad hoc, intermittent basis, and delivers complete application views, regardless of which application languages and platforms being used. Read more »
Another month, another big acquisition to bolster Cisco’s portfolio for mobile carriers. This time it’s Ubiquisys, the highly-rated purveyor of small cells, SON technology and other operator-focused treats. Read more »
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 »
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 »
Applied Micro, a chip company with a market cap of $500 million, is set to take on Intel and AMD with the first 64-bit, ARM-based server part that mimics an entire rack on a chip. Read more »
SiSense has been growing like mad with its analytic database and BI software that’s designed to maximize the disk, memory and CPU on even small computers in the name of low latency. Read more »
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 »
A New Hampshire company has emerged from the shadows with its DeepDB general-purpose database for transactional and analytic work. Investors have put $10 million behind the company. Read more »
An Alcatel-Lucent venture, Nuage Networks, brings out an overlay product for software-defined networking in Layers 2-4 and promises virtual private networks for the enterprise later. Read more »
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 »
A highly dense memory technology introduced in 2011 takes another step closer to reality with the launch of new interconnection specifications. At this rate, we’ll see the new tech in devices in 2014. Read more »
Language learning giant Rosetta Stone has acquired Seattle-based Livemocha to shift its products to the cloud. Read more »
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 »
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 »
The IaaS provider, which is a supplier to Europe’s performance-hungry Helix Nebula science cloud, has abandoned magnetic disks for solid-state storage, and all without raising its prices. Read more »
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 »
A survey sponsored by Swedish software-defined networking player Tail-f Systems shows that many people don’t know what SDN is but plenty want to try it to quickly deploy applications and services. Read more »
Midokura, a software-defined networking startup, is looking to gain traction among Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providers to show the power of its offering. The company has just raised $17.3 million to help its efforts. Read more »
Facebook has built a new open source tool for benchmarking graph databases, called LinkBench. And although the chances are your infrastructure and workloads look nothing like Facebook’s, the good news is LinkBench was built with configurability in mind. Read more »
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 (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 »
New AWS group appears to gird for mobile development; Google issues non-aggression patent pact; and PayPal caught in cloud war crossfire. Read more »
A “Facebook phone” is one of the longest-running rumors in the technology world, but a number of observers think such a beast is actually going to make an appearance next week. But do users actually want one? Read more »
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 »
Netflix computes information in different ways, depending on how soon the data needs to get served up to customers or evaluated internally. The nuanced approach extends to Facebook, LinkedIn and other webscale companies. Read more »
New seed funding brings total investment in the cloud services platform provider to about $1 million, says Cumulogic CEO Michael Soby. Read more »
Google announced a “patent pledge” in which it will donate 10 patents related to MapReduce to protect the emerging cloud and big data industry from lawsuits. Read more »
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 »
A claim by a third party that PayPal, a big VMware customer, was dumping VMware for OpenStack, touched off firestorm, this week. Read more »
Teradata has been around forever, and its customer base full of huge companies suggests it will probably for a while to come. Here’s how some of its customers use the company’s analytics software. Read more »
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 »
Are you going to the sixth Structure conference on June 19 and 20? If your business depends in any way on the cloud and enterprise IT, you will want to be there. Read more »
To distinguish itself in the cloud-based enterprise performance management field, Tidemark introduces inforgraphics to serve up information that’s easier on the eyes than dashboards and standard illustrations of data. Read more »
