Why companies that rely on open-source projects must insist on a strong,...
With strong personalities at play and a lack of any legal recourse, companies involved with open-source projects may get more than they bargain for when harassment and even death threats occur…
View ArticleSwiftStack grabs $16M to help companies scale out storage across data centers
SwiftStack's take on OpenStack storage technology lets an organization tether together its storage infrastructure across multiple data centers.
View ArticleMicrosoft rolls out unlimited OneDrive storage to its Office 365 subscribers
Let's see whether Microsoft can lure new customers to its cloud now that Office 365 subscribers have unlimited OneDrive storage.
View ArticleBigPanda takes in $7M to help IT staff spot problems in the data center
By hooking up services like New Relic, Loggly and Puppet to BigPanda's cloud-based system, IT staff will supposedly get a better picture of infrastructure-related problems.
View ArticleOhio governor says Amazon will spend $1.1 billion on a new Ohio data center
During a campaign speech, Ohio Governor John Kasich spilled the beans on "Amazon's billion-dollar investment in cloud computing" in the central Ohio region.
View ArticleFacebook open sources project that lets you view your OS as a relational...
With your operating system expressed as a relational database, you can run SQL queries to see how your OS is performing, troubleshoot issues and even discover malicious activity lurking about.
View ArticleGoogle’s solid state disk storage now out in open beta for Compute Engine users
Customers of Google's Compute Engine can use the SSD storage to boost the performance of data-processing applications and apps that are attached to heavy duty databases.
View ArticleJoyent gets $15M in funding and tries to jump on the container bandwagon
Joyent wants the world to know that it has been using containers within its own cloud infrastructure for roughly a decade and is hoping to attract new customers with the fact.
View ArticleSlack lands $120M for its collaboration software and is now a billion-dollar...
The work-collaboration startup that launched to the public in February 2014 is valued at $1.12 billion.
View ArticleNew Docker release helps users avoid the Poodle bug
A Docker release this week supposedly fixes network communication errors that could lead to Python users getting bit by the Poodle bug.
View ArticleAkanda exits stealth and promises better routing in virtualized networks
The San Francisco-based startup took in a seed round of $1.5 million. Its open-source software can virtualize the part of the network that handles intelligent routing with IP addresses.
View ArticleAppDynamics launches new real-time analytics service
Application-performance monitoring startup AppDynamics now has a real-time analytics service called Application Analytics, it said Monday. The service lets organizations analyze all of their...
View ArticleNetflix open sources Dynomite to make any datastore distributed
With Dynomite, Netflix claims it can cut down on performance issues and better handle traffic spikes.
View ArticlePalerra (once known as Apprity) is ready to help companies discover bad...
Palerra, formerly known as Apprity, uses data modeling to learn a user’s behavior as he or she accesses various cloud services, which is helpful if you're a company that wants to…
View ArticleThe target audience for Google Container Engine is wondering about security...
Google wants to show the enterprise world that it can trust it when it comes to container technology. But if you want to give its new container engine a test run,…
View ArticleFacebook open sources Proxygen framework for speedier development
Proxygen lets Facebook take advantage of new software performance enhancers like the Google-developed SPDY protocol and has apparently cut down on the amount of time it takes Facebook to make new…
View ArticleShippable lands $8M in funding and touts its container-based testing skills
Shippable’s Docker-based system can convert an organization's codebase into testable containers to make sure an application runs right.
View ArticleDocker nabs former VMware guru Marianna Tessel as SVP of engineering
Docker said Thursday that Marianna Tessel, former VMware vice president of engineering, is now the container specialist’s senior vice president of engineering. During her six-year stint at VMware,...
View ArticleTwo well-known Joyent engineers leave as company rejiggers strategy
Mark Cavage was Joyent’s former VP of engineering who spearheaded the company's Manta object storage service and Ben Rockwood was Joyent’s former director of cloud operations.
View ArticleIllumio lands Microsoft chairman John W. Thompson as board member
Security startup Illumio said today that Microsoft chairman John W. Thompson has taken a seat on the Illumio board. Thompson is also CEO of Virtual Instruments and the former CEO of…
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