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Internet of Things Review: Intel, Valve grab headlines
Intel is getting serious about connected devices. Following in the footsteps of Cisco, the chip maker announced this week that it’s launching a new Internet of Things Solutions group that will develop solutions for embedded sensors, phones and everything in between. The division will be led by general manager Doug Davis, who previously served as ...
Weekly Security Review: China and Google
Cyber-espionage is back on the agenda now that China’s army hackers have renewed their efforts to penetrate organizations in the U.S. and abroad, according to a newly published congressional report by Mandiant. The cybersecurity firm had previously charged China’s secretive PLA Unit 61398 with stealing hundreds of terabytes of data from government agencies, defense contractors ...
Weekly Cloud Review: OpenStack and Hyperscale
It’s been an action-packed week in the cloud ecosystem, with several big-name vendors putting their weight behind OpenStack and upping the ante in the open source race to zero. Linux distributor Canonical set itself apart from the pack by forging an alliance with Pivotal to accelerate the convergence of IaaS and PaaS. As part of ...
RightScale complements management platform with multi-Cloud cost analytics
RightScale is tackling cloud sprawl in multi-provider environments with a new service that integrates with its flagship management platform to let IT organizations take action before the charges start piling up. Dubbed Cloud Analytics, the offering can track and visualize usage trends across a wide range of public and private clouds, including AWS, Azure and ...
Canonical jumps into open cloud ecosystem with OpenStack + Cloud Foundry
Seeking a bigger slice of the public cloud pie, Canonical has joined forces with Pivotal to reposition Ubuntu at the center of the open PaaS ecosystem. Under the partnership, the Linux distributor will integrate an OpenStack-based version of Cloud Foundry into the next major release of its operating system to let customers consolidate their infrastructure- ...
Zadara brings NetApp FAS hardware to the Cloud
Block storage vendor Zadara is taking aim at the hybrid cloud with a new pay-as-you-go solution for NetApp customers. The offering enables users to plug their fabric-attached storage (FAS) infrastructure into AWS using a private network and dedicated drives and vServers. Zadara is best known for its Virtual Private Storage Array, an OpenStack-based platform that ...
OpenStack Summit highlights: SDN, Cloud and everything in between
The OpenStack ecosystem gets bigger with every meetup. This week’s OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong attracted a crowd of 3,000, along with dozens of vendors that leaped at the opportunity to show off their latest solutions. Arista Networks led the charge with the new 7000 X Series of programmable 10 GbE and 40 GbE switches. ...
Broadcom delivers unified management platform for enterprise Clouds
Further expanding its reach into the software-defined data center, semiconductor maker Broadcom has announced a new Gigabit Ethernet Controller that extends network programmability to storage and server infrastructure. The Broadcom BCM5725 is a high-performance controller that packs an array of advanced system functions, including automatic device and software discovery, update management and a set of ...
Aerospike and Internap take NoSQL to the Cloud for faster insights
The raw performance of flash storage has made the technology a popular option for real time analytics, a fast-growing Big Data use case driven by increasing demand for actionable insights. For businesses seeking to quickly analyze large volumes of data without having to make a large upfront capital investment, Aerospike and Internap are rolling out ...
IBM bolsters analytics lineup with cognitive computing capabilities
IBM promises to bring the power of Watson to the enterprise with a set of cutting edge solutions for collecting and analyzing information at scale. Announced this week during the company’s annual Information on Demand Forum, the new offerings aim to “help companies more easily predict and respond to opportunities and challenges hidden in data.” ...