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Storage Software Comes Packaged in App Containers
Server software released this week by storage vendor Scality comes packaged in a Docker application container to speed deployment of cloud-native applications by eliminating the need to decide ahead ...Full Article
Salesforce Shifts Core Services to AWS
Salesforce, the customer relationship management leader, said it would expand its use of Amazon Web Services to deliver core cloud services as it extends its global infrastructure. The partners ...Full Article
U.S. Spy Master to Hire CIO
The U.S. intelligence apparatus is looking for a spy to come in from the cold to serve as its first chief information officer. The Office of the Director of ...Full Article
AWS Acquires NICE Compute-Intensive Cloud and Visualization Technologies
In announcing its acquisition of NICE, the Italy-based software-as-a-service provider for high performance and technical computing, Amazon and AWS not only acquire technology for optimizing customers’ HPC, cloud and ...Full Article
Amazon Enters Chip Business with ARM Platform
Amazon.com crashed the semiconductor sector this week, announcing that its Annapurna Labs Inc. subsidiary would offer an ARM-based platform-on-a-chip targeting network-attached storage and networking applications. The new chips dubbed ...Full Article
Network Outages Expose an Aging, Vulnerable Internet
None of us is getting any younger, and the same is true of the Internet. Experts who track major outages are warning that the Internet is not aging well, ...Full Article
Google Targets AWS With New Cloud Boss Diane Greene
Google is upping the ante in the cloud, moving beyond incremental tactics like price wars with market leader Amazon Web Services, to develop a long-term enterprise strategy under new ...Full Article
SoftLayer, Google Top Cloud Benchmark
An expanded cloud-benchmarking test again found public cloud competitors outperforming industry leader Amazon Web Services in terms of performance and price, with the bare metal version of IBM's SoftLayer ...Full Article
Survey: HPC Storage Sector is Booming
Nearly one-third of storage systems spanning storage area networks to cloud platforms reached 1 petabyte or greater capacity in 2015, according to a user census that also projects more ...Full Article
