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Object Storage is Latest Front in Cloud Price Wars
Storage, not computing resources, has emerged as the latest battleground in the public cloud price wars, according to an industry index. Market tracker 451 Research said this week the ...Full Article
Oracle Embraces Containers to Speed Cloud Apps
Oracle's databases and developer tools can now be pulled as images from a Docker container registry as the partners look to speed development of cloud-native database applications. Oracle becomes ...Full Article
Knights Landing Processor with Omni-Path Makes Cloud Debut
HPC cloud specialist Rescale is partnering with Intel and HPC resource provider R Systems to offer first-ever cloud access to Xeon Phi “Knights Landing” processors. The infrastructure is based ...Full Article
Container Projects Expand as Ecosystem Matures
Application container technology continues to mature at an accelerating pace as it expands beyond cloud native deployments to address emerging platforms such as the Internet of Things while building ...Full Article
Collaborative Cloud under Development for Manufacturers in Europe
Calling itself the first collaborative cloud-based platform for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the manufacturing industry, the Cloud Collaborative Manufacturing Networks (C2NET) consortium was announced today in Europe. ...Full Article
VMware Buys Cloud Monitoring Startup
One week after selling its cloud operations to a European cloud-hosting provider, VMware Inc. said it is acquiring a cloud application monitoring service provider as IT micro-services move deeper ...Full Article
Hyperscalers Emerging From ‘Hype Phase’
The number of companies fitting the description of "hyperscale" now accounts for 68 percent of the cloud infrastructure services market, a researcher found. Synergy Research Group said this week ...Full Article
DDN Claims Faster Object Storage ‘Cross-Region’ S3 Connectivity than AWS
Advanced-scale storage specialist DataDirect Networks (DDN), whose solutions populate the upper-rung of the Top500 supercomputing list, today announced new “cross-region” features to its WOS object storage platform that support ...Full Article
Cloud Shift, Strong Dollar Slow IT Revenues
Global IT spending faces "headwinds" that include a rising U.S. dollar and a continuing slowdown in the server market as potential customers flock to the cloud. All this is ...Full Article
New Malware ‘Bricks’ IoT Devices
Despite repeated assurances that Internet of Things security issues are being addressed, so-called "in-the-wild" attacks on poorly secured devices reveal that securing the IoT still has a long way ...Full Article
