ThousandEyes sniffs out performance problems on-site, off-site wherever
Startup says it can keep an eye on both your internal IT and your SaaS providers to pinpoint problems fast. Read more »
It’s official: Everyone loves the CMO. But should they?
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With IT giants including IBM now actively targeting CMOs as primary buyers of IT solutions, you have to wonder if this is really a great idea. Read more »
Can free Red Hat on AWS make it the de facto Linux for the cloud, too?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux gets a free tier of its own on Amazon Web Services, perhaps in a bid to unseat Ubuntu which runs more than half of all EC2 instances. Read more »
Dell builds a government cloud of its own
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Dell is building a Red Hat-OpenStack cloud foundation to attack the $20 billion or so of the government’s IT budget that is expected to move into the cloud. Read more »
The week in cloud: Oracle and Dell make strange bedfellows; NSA spygate fallout
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Dell and Oracle deal takes coopetition to a new level, shows Oracle hardware vulnerability; will NSA spygate controversy impact cloud adoption? Read more »
GAO says “not so fast” on proposed secret Amazon-CIA cloud
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Updated: The Government Accountability Office sided with IBM which claimed the CIA unfairly awarded a secure cloud contract to Amazon Web Services. Read more »
Coming from Amazon — lots of Mini-Me clouds for government work?
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Amazon’s GovCloud targets U.S. state, federal and local government workloads. Here’s betting AWS will replicate that model abroad. Read more »
IBM throws its weight behind MongoDB for mobile apps
IBM and 10gen are collaborating on a standard that would make it easier to write applications that can access data from both MongoDB and relational systems such as IBM DB2. Read more »
For SoftLayer customers, IBM buy could bring benefits — or migration to other clouds
IBM has big plans following its acquisition of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider SoftLayer, and while the roadmap isn’t clear, the deal could yield benefits for current SoftLayer customers. Read more »
Why IBM desperately needed to buy SoftLayer
Can IBM use SoftLayer as a way to fend off Amazon Web Service incursions? Or is it already too late? Read more »
It’s official: IBM to buy SoftLayer
SoftLayer and IBM’s legacy SmartCloud will form the basis of a new Global Cloud Services division. Read more »
IBM makes millimeter wave chip for better radar and mobile backhaul
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Meet IBM’s latest millimeter wave radio chip. It might make mobile backhaul faster as well as improve radar. But there are significant drawbacks. Read more »
More bad news for server makers
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Updated: Will the server market ever come back? IDC research shows worldwide revenue on server sales off nearly 8 percent year over year. Read more »
Pure Storage nets new cash from In-Q-Tel to push its “flash for all” effort
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Startup has also updated its core FlashArray product with always-on, data-at-rest encryption for the security-conscious accounts it hopes to entice. Read more »
Joyent to Amazon: It’s on
Joyent isn’t being coy about it: It wants to compete head on with Amazon and that means it will offer many more options including some, it says, are cheaper than analogous AWS services. Read more »
Bored with mere medicine, IBM’s Watson adds customer service to its resume
IBM’s Watson has been helping clinicians diagnose ailments and bankers recommend the right products for customers, and with its latest job it will help brands provide better customer service and reach a wider audience. Read more »
The week in cloud: Google and Microsoft spar while IBM and SAP play hot hands
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Google and Microsoft slapfest continues; IBM pushes Watson for third-party apps; SAP bets big on HANA for ERP. Read more »
Networking chip firm Mellanox to buy startup Kotura. Because photonics.
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Mellanox, the networking chip company famous for its Infinband products has agreed to to buy photonics startup Kotura in an all-cash deal. The purchase comes after Kotura started making products for the data center. Read more »
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How data warehousing is now a cost-effective solution for businesses
Data-warehouse providers are quickly adding Hadoop distributions, or even their own versions of Hadoop, into their architecture, adding further cost advantages to collections of extremely large data sets. Finding the talent to manage this newly converged environment will not be easy, but it presents tremendous opportunity for companies willing to take some risk. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
SAP to world: We’re a cloud company, no really!
To the surprise of very few, SAP plans to put make its HANA analytical database available as a cloud service. Read more »
Look, IBM is doing SQL on Hadoop, too
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IBM’s entrant in the SQL-on-Hadoop competition has been flying under the radar, but is available as a technology preview. Called Big SQL, it’s a big deal if IBM wants to be a major player in the Hadoop space. Read more »
Dell snaps up Enstratius to build cloud momentum
With Enstratius, Dell gets enterprise-class cloud management capabilities, says Enstratius CTO George Reese. Read more »
How will we measure the internet of things?
The internet of things is purportedly going to change our lives, boost our profits and create loads of economic opportunity. I don’t doubt this, but I do want to know how we’ll measure these gains. Read more »
Amazon offers cloud certifications; more proof that AWS is all grown up
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Amazon is following the lead of its IT elders by rolling out technology certifications for developers, solution architects and admins. Read more »
IBM makes “world’s smallest” movie by filming atoms
Researchers at IBM’s Almaden Research Center used a two-ton scanning tunneling microscope to make a the world’s tiniest movie. Read more »
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How to manage big data without breaking the bank
In the tsunami of experimentation, investment, and deployment of systems that analyze big data, vendors have seemingly been trying approaches at two extremes—either embracing the Hadoop ecosystem or building increasingly sophisticated query capabilities into database management system (DBMS) engines.For some use cases, there appears to be room for a third approach that lies between the extremes and borrows from the best of each. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
IBM has a new protocol (and a box) for the internet of things
IBM has a new box for the internet of things, but it’s the MQTT protocol inside that box that’s worth a long look. The protocol could become the messaging layer for the internet of things. Read more »
Opscode gains momentum with IBM, Microsoft deals
IBM is integrating Chef into SmartCloud and Microsoft is adding support for Azure as well in a sign that enterprises are fully aboard the devops bandwagon. Read more »
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How intelligent networks address enterprise cloud issues
Communications service providers (CSPs) can deliver highly reliable, low-latency, secure networks between highly distributed user populations and applications running at remote cloud data centers. Because of this, they offer tremendous advantages for enterprises looking to adopt public and private cloud computing. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
CA snaps up Layer 7 as API management arena heats up
Last week it was Intel buying Mashery, now it’s CA buying Layer 7. Both Mashery and Layer 7 are in the business of managing application programming interfaces. Read more »
IBM buys UrbanCode for its devops chops
Big Blue says UrbanCode’s software works well with its own Worklight mobile application development platfrom to speed up the creation and deployment of mobile (and cloud) apps. Read more »
Why IBM might ditch servers and become Intelligent Business Middleware
IBM is reportedly in talks to sell it’s server business to Lenovo. As it ditches commodity hardware again, where is IBM’s fortune going to be made? Mobility and data. Read more »
Cloud keeps looking good for IBM, and flash storage could help in the months ahead
Despite gains in cloud computing revenue, IBM did not meet Wall Street’s expectations of the legacy technology vendor. Flash storage could help bring more revenue later this year. Read more »
Scoop: Juniper, Ericsson go for OpenStack gold
The two networking powers have applied to become Gold members of the foundation that governs the OpenStack open-source cloud effort. Read more »
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Social first-quarter 2013: analysis and outlook
Social business technologies remain in the foreground of discussions about business transformation, but the events of the first quarter of 2013 raised as many questions as they answered, or more. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
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 »
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Building energy management systems: overview and forecast
Although there has been a focus on energy efficiency in commercial buildings for some years, the BEMS market can still be considered nascent. The landscape of new entrants, new technologies, and new methodologies is expanding rapidly, and even well-established market leaders are finding new ways to present and market their businesses. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
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Cloud and data first-quarter 2013: analysis and outlook
Cloud computing is finally starting to add value to business, as those in charge of cloud within enterprises are moving from talking to doing. That much was very evident in the first quarter of 2013. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
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 »
IBM releases Hadoop box and database technology for quicker data insights
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IBM announced a new PureData appliance for Hadoop and technology for speeding up analytic databases. The announcements come at a good time, with data sets growing and enterprises hankering for easy and fast analysis capability. Read more »
