As relational and analytic databases move from the datacenter to the cloud, a new survey finds most enterprises are sticking with incumbents as they adopt database-as-a-service (DBaaS) offerings. In a survey of database-in-the-cloud offerings released Tuesday (Oct. 27) by 451 Research, the vast majority of respondents (90 percent) said their choice of a database vendor ...Full article
A cybersecurity startup with a wealth of insider knowledge and a plan to leverage high-performance computing along with advanced visualization techniques has attracted the attention of well-known investors. IronNet Cybersecurity, the startup founded in 2014 by former U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) Director Keith Alexander (shown), has raised $32.5 million in a Series A funding ...Full article
Enterprise applications and the IT infrastructure used to deliver them remain too complex, prompting some to bypass sanctioned enterprise tools and instead use consumer applications to get done what needs to be done. That reality is among the conclusions of a recent white paper on the growing complexity of enterprise applications released by "modernization platform" ...Full article
At Oracle PartnerNetwork, SGI this morning revealed the SGI UVTM 300RL, a high performance SGI UV server line for Oracle Linux, designed to allow enterprises using Intel-based servers to operate Oracle Database in-memory on one system, using up to 32 sockets and 24 terabytes of shared memory. The server uses a scale-up, single system design ...Full article
The evolution of smart, connected, and autonomous products is reshaping the manufacturing industry and its ecosystem. The convergence of operational and information technologies is opening a completely new axis – a large one at that – for creating path-breaking innovations and opportunities in the manufacturing ecosystem. On this wide canvas, the first brushstrokes to separate ...Full article
Securing the enterprise like a castle of yore is bad for business, employees, and customers, so enterprises must protect data wherever it resides -- in sensors, mobile devices, silos, and networks.Full article
The proposed $67 billion merger of Dell Inc., storage giant EMC Corp. and its VMware Inc. subsidiary got more complicated this week when the future Dell units unexpectedly announced a cloud spinoff. EMC (NYSE:EMC) and VMware (NYSE:VMW) followed up last week's announcement of a blockbuster merger with Dell by outlining plans to form a new ...Full article
Since being announced in August, the line of business is growing at 800 percent and just announced new products to serve the expanding number of enterprises seeking advanced scale solutions for big data, cloud, and their transformation to the digital age.Full article
Less than a week after announcing its acquisition of IT automation tool and DevOps specialist Ansible, Red Hat said it has closed the transaction and begun integrating the startup's open-source tools into its hybrid cloud management infrastructure. Joe Fitzgerald, Red Hat's vice president and general manager of its management business unit, acknowledged on Thursday (Oct. ...Full article
Always present but often ignored is the human element of information technology. Systems and software all get installed, configured and maintained by people. And not a single one of those people on the IT staff could possibly be an expert in every one of the technologies involved. So every engineer or administrator approaches every issue ...Full article
Dell this week expanded its deployment services to help organizations reduce cost and increase competency. Rather than spending their limited technology resources on deployment, enterprises should consider outsourcing these tasks and use the savings for advanced scale computing, cloud, analytics, and other business-centric and differentiating solutions. That's the advice from Rob Brothers of IDC in a ...Full article
A week after Dell acquired EMC, the Texas company's premier client event resonated with its emphasis on end-to-end devices, customer-centric solutions, and building for the future. "Dell is set to become an enterprise solutions powerhouse," said Michael Dell, chairman and chief executive officer at Dell told CIOs and business executives in a keynote today. "We ...Full article
Seeking to bridge the gap between application development and production deployment, container leader Docker Inc. said this week it has acquired Tutum Inc., a two-year-old developer of a cloud service for deploying and managing distributed applications in Docker containers. San Francisco-based Docker touted the Tutum deal as enabling application containers to run on any infrastructure, ...Full article
Dell is further aligning its fortunes with hybrid cloud through a newly announced partnership with Microsoft. This morning, Dell and Microsoft unveiled the Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft, a bundled hybrid Azure cloud solution designed to reduce the time and financial risk associated with adopting this platform. The offering extends on Dell's collaboration with ...Full article
In its latest iteration of its real-time visual analytics software suite, Space-Time Insight focused on simplifying the process for developers and enhancing the application's real-time Spark Streaming capabilities. SI Suite 6.0, announced today and slated to go into production during the first quarter of 2016, is designed to bridge the potentially expanding number of data ...Full article
As the reality of enterprise production environments catches up with the hype over Docker application containers, vendors have been plugging security holes while attempting to expand flexibility for container deployments. Of particular concern is the security of container images. For example, a recent study found that more than 30 percent of images in Docker Hub, ...Full article
When I first started to equate the massive and consequential breaches suffered during the recent past with multiple Pearl Harbors, a few people thought I was over dramatic and asked me to tone it down. Really? Are you serious? One third of the US population’s data has been compromised – and that includes over 21 ...Full article
The oil and gas sector is slumping, cutting back on exploration and drilling as energy prices continue to slump. Perhaps based on the strategy that it's best to invest during a downturn, Sinclair Oil announced this week it is deploying new scale-out network-attached storage from intelligent storage startup Qumulo Inc. Seattle-based Qumulo announced earlier this ...Full article
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