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The Specter of Performance and the Adoption of Hybrid Clouds
One of the biggest challenges comes in the specter of performance, a poltergeist that adds latency to transactions and is further empowered by physical distances.…
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How hybrid will reshape the entire cloud market
Sinclair Schuller is the CEO and cofounder of Apprenda, a leader in enterprise Platform as a Service. When the phrase “hybrid cloud” is…
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ScienceLogic lands $43M to monitor the hybrid cloud
IT monitoring-specialist ScienceLogic just landed $43 million in a Series D funding round, which will give it more resources as it continues…
Read MoreWhy VMware is going ‘space-age’ with Google and embracing OpenStack
VMware has developed a reputation in some circles as being proprietary and less innovative than it was when the company made server…
Read MoreHow well is vCloud Air doing? Who knows?
VMware has pinned high hopes on its vCloud Air hybrid cloud, the company’s response to public cloud competitors like Amazon Web Services. But…
Read MoreIBM beefs up cloud worldwide with more data centers
Remember that data center land grab we keep talking about? It’s not letting up. This week it’s IBM’s turn (again) to claim…
Read MoreThink AWS doesn’t have designs on in-house apps? Think again.
Some people still see Amazon Web Services as “out there” and think of their own on-premises servers as islands onto themselves. But, as we keep…
Read MoreMicrosoft snaps up Aorato to boost enterprise, hybrid cloud security
The Aorato deal promises to bring machine-learning smarts to bear to protect Active Directory assets in hybrid cloud deployments, Microsoft said in a blog post.…
Read MoreAmazon declares war on Oracle (again) with new Aurora database
The first reveal of AWS Re:invent 2014. Aurora a MySQL-compatible relational database engine to take on Oracle et al. Also lots of goodies for developers including continuous integration and a managed code repository.…
Read MoreAWS partners fight to fill gaps in Amazon’s hybrid cloud story
Dozens (hundreds?) of smaller software companies are at AWS Re:invent to preview products that can grease the skids to successful hybrid cloud deployments.…
Read MoreEMC stakes hybrid cloud claim using (surprise!) lots of EMC and VMware technology
Hybrid cloud blueprint recommends lots of VCE, EMC and VMware gear with support for AWS, Microsoft Azure and vCloud Air public clouds coming next year.…
Read MoreCisco to buy Metacloud as the great cloud consolidation (condensation?) continues
Rackspace took itself off the block, but don't expect the acquisitions (and acqui-hires) in cloud to stop. Latest example: Cisco's announced plans to buy OpenStack player Metacloud.…
Read MoreSecurity startup vArmour targets the hybrid cloud with a $21M funding round
The stealth startup helps people understand how network traffic flows throughout their data centers in order to prevent hacking attacks.…
Read MoreOpenNebula gets Azure and Softlayer integration with new plug-ins
OpenNebula's new "Lemon Slice" beta makes it possible to chuck VMs from OpenNebula infrastructure into more public clouds as needed.…
Read MoreMicrosoft adds to its hybrid cloud strategy by acquiring InMage
By purchasing the business continuity company, Microsoft can merge InMage's data recovery technology into its own Azure Site Recovery service that allows for folks to migrate on-premise data to the Azure cloud in case disaster strikes.…
Read MoreEMC snaps up TwinStrata for its hybrid cloud push
Storage kingpin buys TwinStrata to make it easier for companies to move data from on-premises to their cloud of choice.…
Read MoreJoyent’s new cloud management software links public and private clouds together
Joyent believes that hybrid clouds are the way of the future and a way in which the company can compete against big cloud service providers like Amazon.…
Read MoreStructure 2014: Come for the slapfights, stay for the drinks
The machinations in cloud have reached a fever pitch with public cloud giant Amazon pushing into the enterprise and enterprise IT giants attacking public cloud. Should make for some good conversation at Structure 2014.…
Read MoreAutomation is the key to saving cash in the cloud. But how to do it?
On this week's Structure Show, we discussed how VMware handles automation both for its customers and in its own cloud, and how a startup called Mesosphere wants to turn parts of that approach on their head by taking inspiration from Google and Twitter.…
Read MoreA private-cloud market assessment in 5 quotes
Eucalyptus CEO Marten Mickos has been around the private cloud space since its inception. Nearly five years after the company's launch, Mickos shares his thoughts on a market that rose fast, fell hard and appears to be on the rebound.…
Read MoreMetacloud pairs with Internap to bring managed OpenStack to more companies
Metacloud takes its managed OpenStack service to Internap's data centers to provide customers with a hybrid cloud.…
Read MoreRackspace: No hurry to hire a new CEO
Rackspace shares took a beating in Monday after-hours trading on the news that Lanham Napier is retiring as CEO, but the company isn't rushing to name a replacement.…
Read MoreIO launches an OpenStack cloud running on open source servers
IO, which is known for its modular data center designs and specialized data center management software, is getting into the cloud provider space with a new service called IO.Cloud. It's very open at the foundational level, at least, running OpenStack software on Open Compute hardware.…
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