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SAP Teams With Cloud Foundry, OpenStack
SAP, the German enterprise software giant, is joining the Cloud Foundry Foundation and OpenStack Foundation open source communities. The vendor also rolled out at an open source convention in ...Full Article
Big Data Prefers Bare Metal
Benchmark testing of a database running on bare metal versus virtual public cloud servers found that the physical machines outperformed the virtual machines in terms of throughput and latency ...Full Article
Nadella Pep Talk Stresses Microsoft ‘Ecosystem’
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella delivered a pep talk to the company's partner network this week in which he sought to flesh out the company's strategy for a "mobile-first, cloud-first ...Full Article
Arista Cranks Leaf Switches To 100G For Big Data, Storage
The emergence of big data, storage, and streaming media applications that have bursty behavior on the network and the prevalence of 10 Gb/sec network adapters on servers is choking ...Full Article
Rackspace Unveils ‘Managed Cloud’ Strategy
Cloud services provider Rackspace is unveiling a "managed cloud" strategy built around new service levels and a pricing model aimed at businesses looking for single- or multi-tenant servers, or ...Full Article
AWS Talks Up Enterprise Wins, Adds Zocalo Collaboration
Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing arm of the world's largest online retailer, got the first-mover advantage in cloud computing and has been aggressively innovating for more than eight ...Full Article
Microsoft Storage Appliances Push Data To Azure
Microsoft is rolling out the latest series of its Azure storage appliances with an eye toward helping customers manage data growth while forestalling the seemingly endless cycle of buying ...Full Article
EMC Buys TwinStrata To Link VMAX Arrays To Clouds
As part of the release of its VMAX3 release, EMC is acquiring cloud gateway startup TwinStrata. EMC said its new embedded cloud access would be delivered through TwinStrata's "cloud tiering" ...Full Article
Amazon T2 Cloud Instances With Burst Capability
Amazon Web Services is shifting down market with a new Amazon Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2) instance type designed for web and database applications that benefit from a performance burst ...Full Article
CIA Testing AWS Cloud for Security Holes
The CIA's chief information officer provided an update on the spy agency's plans to roll out private cloud services – one would guess extremely private – during an industry ...Full Article