I was thinking about the Indy 500 the other day and realized there were many similarities with successful DevOps environments. Both are all about using accelerated laps (or continuous cycles) to quickly get to the finish line (or delivery lane). Both start with a competitive problem: How to win against a field of strong, ambitious ...Full article
Mesosphere, the datacenter operating system specialist, is teaming with federated storage leader EMC Corp. to expand datacenter storage options within Apaches Mesos cluster management architectures. Mesosphere said Thursday (Oct. 8) its collaboration with EMC (NYSE: EMC) means its datacenter operating system (DCOS) would support storage platforms such as EMC's ScaleIO, OpenStack Cinder, Amazon Web Services ...Full article
With today's release of three Linux-based, open architecture Power processor servers, IBM hopes to take away market share from the x86 servers many enterprises currently use for high performance computing, big data, and cloud. Enterprises are willing to switch processor allegiance if the results pay off, wrote the Linley Group in a June 2015 report, "A ...Full article
Today, myDevices became the latest developer to offer enterprises an Internet of Things (IoT) platform, differentiating its software via the format and heavy emphasis on professional services. MyDevices' self-named IoT as a Service platform features a consumer facing front-end that includes data collection, analysis, and engagement tools at the back-end, according to the developer. As ...Full article
Dell is reportedly in talks to merge with EMC, according to published reports. Rumors and uncertainty have swirled around $50-billion storage behemoth EMC. Facing the unscheduled but certainly upcoming retirement of longtime chairman and CEO Joe Tucci, pundits have wondered what form the EMC federation -- including EMC, VMware, and Pivotal -- would take without his leadership. The ...Full article
All-flash storage array specialist Pure Storage launched a $400 million initial public offering this week, one of the largest technology IPOs of the year, prompting other all-flash vendors to assert that the emerging storage architecture is entering the mainstream. Pure Storage (PSTG) announced on Tuesday (Oct. 6) it was setting its share price at $17 ...Full article
When Europe's top court declared the Safe Harbor data-transfer agreement invalid, it should not have come as a surprise to those who follow the continent's privacy rulings. But now Safe Harbor is out, U.S. technology companies must quickly figure out how to respond or risk damaging relationships with their European and multi-national customers. Today, about ...Full article
Cloud offerings have greatly improved in scale and economic efficiency, making it a relevant and viable choice for the computing needs of organizations in every industry. While cloud delivers a host of new benefits to its users (public, private, and in-between), it also exposes organizations to new kinds of security risks. As a result, CIOs ...Full article
While SDN and IoT will undoubtedly alter the networking landscape, they shouldn’t distract from other business and tech trends that impact enterprise networks right now.Full article
Cognitive computing, not digitization, is the destination enterprises should target, and employees should not worry about mass layoffs but rather seek out new career opportunities, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty told overflow crowds at today's Gartner Symposium/ITXPO in Orlando. "It's an era of technology and it's an era of business," she said. "As an era, think ...Full article
If you’ve ever used Uber, you’re aware of how ridiculously simple the process is. You press a button, a car shows up, you go for a ride, and you press another button to pay the driver. But there’s a lot more going on behind the scene, and much of that infrastructure increasingly runs on Hadoop ...Full article
Scientific computing must become less rigid and power hungry as researchers seek new ways to model and understand the real world, a climatologist argues. In a commentary published this week in the journal Nature, climate researcher Tim Palmer asserted that "we should question whether all scientific computations need to be performed deterministically — that is, ...Full article
Couchbase today unveiled the eponymous fourth version of its NoSQL database designed to empower developers in create broader varieties of web, mobile, and Internet of Things applications on Couchbase. The update provides upgraded levels of developer agility, enterprise application scalability and performance, and business insight from data stored in Couchbase, according to the developer. "Enterprises ...Full article
Algorithms will soon replace apps as they reshape business, IT, and the ways in which organizations interact with customers, partners, and employees, according to researchers speaking at today's Gartner Symposium/ITXPO in Orlando. The shift is part of the ongoing transformation to a bimodal world, said Gartner CEO Gene Hall. The research firm – which first ...Full article
Corporate data security breaches are increasingly originating from mobile devices equipped with high-level access to company databases, new research finds. According to new mobile security survey by IDG Research of 100 "global IT leaders," 74 percent said they have experienced data breaches due to holes in mobile security. Software vulnerabilities (38 percent) and malware (36 ...Full article
An application orchestration tool from IT automation specialist Puppet Labs aims to improve the deployment and management of IT infrastructure and distributed applications. Puppet Labs, Portland, Ore., said Thursday (Oct. 1) its streamlined orchestration process enables the modeling of distributed applications and application stacks as Puppet code as a way to speed deployment of infrastructure ...Full article
The steady enterprise shift to the hybrid cloud infrastructure brings with it greater requirements for managing that infrastructure while moving data and applications securely between on-premise platforms and public and private clouds. Those hybrid cloud requirements have lengthened the list of platform-as-a-service (PaaS) providers. IBM is seeking to put a new spin on the PaaS ...Full article
Business intelligence and analytics software developer Yellowfin on Friday plans to debut DashXML, a browser-based Java application designed to make it easier to create customized analytical functions and applications. DashXML is a "flexible framework" that communicates, via web API, with Yellowfin's BI and analytics platform. With DashXML, IT departments and Yellowfin software partners can create ...Full article
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