Sahara provides a way to build Big Data as a Service on OpenStack, but there are many options and considerations. This presentation introduces our work on benchmarking various solutions, including VM vs. container vs bare-metal, HDFS vs. Swift, and a few others. This was conducted on latest Intel hardware platforms and will provide insights into… Continue reading Benchmarking Sahara-based Big Data as a Service solutions
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Cloud Foundry on OpenStack Hands-on: It’s what on the Stack that matters!
The goal for both OpenStack and Cloud Foundry foundations is to build open source software and communities. The software is intended for public, private and managed clouds. Cloud Foundry is intended for a variety of IaaS including OpenStack. This Hands-on session will cover the basics of Cloud Foundry. We will discuss the motivation for a… Continue reading Cloud Foundry on OpenStack Hands-on: It’s what on the Stack that matters!
SkySync Enables Hybrid Storage Options for Oracle Customers
Portal Architects, Inc., the creators of SkySync, today announced the release of a new connector for Oracle WebCenter Content. The new SkySync connector, along with the existing SkySync Oracle Documents Cloud connector, enables organizations to tightly integrate any existing on-premises or cloud content storage systems with Oracle WebCenter Content or Oracle Documents Cloud Service quickly.… Continue reading SkySync Enables Hybrid Storage Options for Oracle Customers
Datadog Acquires Mortar Data to Enhance Analytics for Cloud Monitoring
Datadog, the leading SaaS-based monitoring platform for cloud applications, today announced it has acquired Mortar Data, a New York-based startup enabling companies to build and run custom big data applications and data pipelines. With the addition of Mortar Data’s analytics platform and experienced team, this acquisition will extend Datadog’s data analytics capabilities and will soon… Continue reading Datadog Acquires Mortar Data to Enhance Analytics for Cloud Monitoring
Mega Trends to support Unified Communications market growth in APAC
Unequivocally, 2015 will see strong growth in the Cloud computing, Big Data Analytics, Social media, Internet of things, and Mobility (CASIM). Frost & Sullivan believes that CASIM will mark a positive impact on the unified communications (UC) market, making UC more critical to the businesses than ever before. “UC will no more be just about… Continue reading Mega Trends to support Unified Communications market growth in APAC
Cloud-Based Unisys Edge Service Management Available on Microsoft Azure in Latin America
Unisys Corporation today announced that Edge Service Management, the company’s cloud-based Service Management solution, is available across Latin America via Microsoft Azure. Edge Service Management is hosted locally in Brazil on Microsoft’s cloud computing platform. Because the solution is delivered on demand through a software-as-a-service model, it is also available to clients based in other… Continue reading Cloud-Based Unisys Edge Service Management Available on Microsoft Azure in Latin America
EMC Embraces VMware vSphere 6, Accelerate Hybrid Cloud Adoption
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced support for VMware vSphere 6 within its product and solution roadmap and development cycle, enabling customers to leverage EMC’s leading storage platforms to virtualize scale-up and scale-out applications with confidence, redefine availability, and simplify the virtual data center. EMC storage platforms including VMAX®, VNX®, VNXe, VPLEX® and XtremIO™ will… Continue reading EMC Embraces VMware vSphere 6, Accelerate Hybrid Cloud Adoption
Protabit to Deploy Protein Engineering Software in the Cloud
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a grant to Protabit LLC to make its commercial-grade computational protein design (CPD) software platform, Triad, available to subscribers as a new software-as-a-service (SaaS). Engineered proteins are used as antibody-based human therapeutics, in microbial pathways for the production of bio-based fuels and chemicals, and in numerous other… Continue reading Protabit to Deploy Protein Engineering Software in the Cloud