SAP Seals Altiscale Deal
SAP completed it acquisition of big data analytics startup Altiscale Inc. this week, saying it would fold Altiscale's data cloud and Hadoop services into its existing SAP HANA cloud ...Full Article
IBM Project DataWorks: Joining Multi-Sourced Data for AI-based Analytics
IBM’s aggressive push into the data analytics market continued today with the announcement of Project DataWorks, a Watson initiative that IBM said is the first cloud-based data and analytics ...Full Article
Datadog Extends App Monitoring Tool
As more enterprise data, applications and other workloads shift to the cloud, vendors of cloud monitoring services are expanding their offerings to help DevOps teams troubleshoot issues related to ...Full Article
Targeting AWS, Oracle Adds Cloud Analytics
As it challenges public cloud leader Amazon Web Services, Oracle Corp. is rolling out a cloud-based analytics package spanning data services, applications and infrastructure. Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) unveiled its ...Full Article
Cloud Adoption Rises, Server Sales Flat
While global server shipments remained roughly flat during the second quarter, cloud services are expected to billow this year on the strength of growing infrastructure and application software services. ...Full Article
SoftBank Invests in Bare Metal Cloud Startup
Japan's SoftBank Group Corp. continues to invest in enterprise infrastructure developers, leading an early funding round and forming a partnership with bare metal server automation startup Packet. The partners ...Full Article
OpenStack Readies Newton as Mitaka Releases Arrive
As more vendors unveil their enterprise-grade distributions of OpenStack Mitaka released in the spring, developers are already preparing the launch of the new OpenStack upgrade dubbed Newton. Several vendors ...Full Article
Merged Dell-EMC Targets Hybrid Cloud
If bigger is better, the new IT behemoth Dell Technologies Inc. that combines the holdings of Dell and storage leader EMC Corp. fits the bill with the completion a ...Full Article
Steady Shift in Enterprise Workloads to Cloud
An estimated 41 percent of enterprise workloads are currently running in public and private clouds, a total that is expected to rise to 60 percent over the next two ...Full Article
Google Buys Cloud Software Startup
In an attempt to keep pace with its cloud rivals, Google has acquired a cloud enterprise services startup and its platform for buying and selling enterprise software in the ...Full Article