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It’s the thing to do: EMC builds app store into VMware-powered converged appliance
App stores and data center equipment apparently go well together, or at least that’s what some vendors seem to believe. Hewlett-Packard offers an application catalog for its software-denied networking platform and now EMC is jumping on the bandwagon with a new converged infrastructure module that offers– you guessed it – a selection of pre-packaged services ...
Continuous integration buzz continues: Investors pour $15 million into Sauce Labs
Sauce Labs Inc. reappeared on the industry radar this morning after raising $15 million to capitalize on the accelerating adoption of continuous integration principles in the traditional enterprise. The investment will help fuel the development of its flagship testing service, which provides a cloud-based environment for organizations to test their customer-facing applications. The three-year-old startup ...
Qumulo bags $40M as clues emerge about mystery storage platform
Qumulo Inc. has landed an additional $40 million in funding from investors to help organizations store their fast-growing data troves more effectively. The stealthy startup is staying deliberately opaque about how it intends to improve the storage equation, but there are a number of public clues available that can help fill in much of the ...
MongoDB 3.0 takes aim at the enterprise
MongoDB Inc. is rolling out a new release of its namesake document database aimed at addressing some of the enterprise requirements that have so far gone overlooked in the rush to move away from traditional relational systems. The version is the first to implement the speedy storage engine that the startup obtained through the acquisition ...
VMware reboots its virtualization stack for the hybrid cloud
Not wanting to keep the industry waiting until its annual user conference in August, VMware held an offbeat webcast on Monday afternoon to introduce the next generation of its cloud technologies. The main highlight of the launch is a new release of vSphere that addresses some of the biggest challenges for the enterprise in the ...
Hortonworks takes Hadoop governance into its own hands with new community initiative
Hortonworks Inc. is launching a new community initiative aimed at tightening the control around the growing amounts of information that organizations are feeding into their Hadoop clusters. The initiative builds on the newly public vendor’s existing efforts to provide much-needed governance capabilities for the data crunching platform. Hortonworks most recently rolled out a certification course for ...
Sales automation vendor Apttus lands $41M investment from Salesforce Ventures
The process of converting leads into paying customers takes up much of the modern marketer’s time and effort, but the work hardly ends there. Sorting out the logistical details of closing a deal can prove almost as taxing when large numbers are involved, a challenge that Salesforce.com hopes to elevate with its latest investment. The ...
Earnings shed new light on competitive lines in the public cloud
The latest round of earnings reports in the public cloud reveals that the balance of power remains largely unchanged among the top providers, but the competitive lines are being redrawn as the emphasis continues to shift beyond infrastructure. That’s better for some than for others. With its dominant email service and a complementary productivity suite ...
What you missed in Big Data: Hadoop no longer the only game in town
Microsoft managed to momentarily steal the analytics limelight from Hadoop last week after a new report revealed that it’s planning to launch a cloud-based alternative to the batch processing platform using technology that’s been used internally for several years with great success. Some 5,000 Microsoft engineers rely on a massive implementation of Cosmos, as the ...
What you missed in Cloud: Shifting rivalries
The competitive lines of the public cloud shifted considerably last week as a number of major players repositioned to address their new priorities. VMware made the biggest splash after striking an unexpected alliance with Google to bring four of the latter’s most strategic services into the enterprise. The deal is notable because the two firms ...