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Google takes on Amazon in its own back yard with new cloud monitoring service in a week
Days after launching a new service for tracking the performance of applications running on its public cloud, Google is rolling out another monitoring option that takes the fight against Amazon to an entirely new front: the retail giant’s own platform. Google Cloud Monitoring is based on technology that the search giant obtained through the acquisition ...
Intel-backed consortium seeks to connect Internet of Things
After seven months of collaboration, Intel and its partners in the Open Interconnect Consortium are finally launching the initial release of their much-anticipated standard for machine-to-machine communications. The protocol is meant to allow the billions of connected devices set to fly out of factories in the coming years to freely exchange information. That interoperability, if ...
MongoDB seizes surging investor interest in NoSQL for another $80 million round
MongoDB Inc., the most well-funded startup in the NoSQL database world, has climbed higher still on the venture capital chart with a $80 million round that brings its total raised to nearly double that of itsnearest competitor. The funding round is a landmark for the segment as enterprises continue to shift spending away from traditional relational ...
Deutsche Bank study finds Hadoop rapidly gaining enterprise traction
New data from Deutsche Bank Group AG suggests that the explosive adoption of Hadoop will have a tangible impact on enterprise technology spending in 2015. The research counters some recent dour assessments of Hadoop’s enterprise-readiness and should put a smile on the faces of vendors pushing the bandwagon. Standing to gain the most from increased ...
Investors rain $40M on Ionic to build enterprise encryption solution
Ionic Security Inc. became the latest startup to catch the wave of investor interest in enterprise privacy protection on Tuesday after raising a healthy $40.1 million to lay down the groundwork for its imminent launch. The team hasn’t revealed much about exactly what it’s working on, but the long list of high-profile backers hints at ...
Amazon tweaks cloud service with new goodies for admins
Amazon.com Inc. is getting the year off to a rolling start with a flurry of improvements to its public cloud aimed at filling in more of the logistical details that need addressing to support enterprise workloads. At the tip of the spear is a new connectivity option that enables regular virtual machines to access resources located ...
Gartner: Docker not ready for enterprise prime time quite yet
Linux containers are the service delivery mechanism of choice for many of the world’s top web companies, including Google, which employs the technology to serve up billions of application instances each and every week. But the paradigm is still a long way from becoming viable for the traditional enterprise, says a new Gartner report. The problem ...
Citrix acquires Sanbolic to open new converged infrastructure front against VMware
Citrix Systems Inc. is apparently plotting an entry into converged infrastructure that could catch rival VMware Inc. off guard in the race to the software-defined data center. The company showed its hand on Monday by acquiring Sanbolic Inc. to fill the missing storage element of its ambitious strategy. Sanbolic has developed a platform that enables organizations ...
What you missed in Big Data: mining value from unstructured data
The enterprise analytics crowd kicked off the new year with a string of major developments aimed at addressing the explosion in use cases for unstructured data over the past 12 months. FoundationDB Inc. set the train in motion on Monday after revealing plans to expand its namesake key-value store with a new component for exposing ...
Chief security officers should look to the public cloud as a role model in 2015
The number of attack vectors into the enterprise is increasing with every added device and cloud service while hackers are only becoming more skilled at exploiting the growing disarray of the corporate network. That explosive concoction will require chief security officers to fundamentally rethink how they approach online threats in the next 12 months. This ...