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Transatlantic Cable To Boost Cloud Services
A new undersea fiber cable with an initial estimated capacity of 160 terabits per second announced this week by Facebook and Microsoft is billed as the first to connect ...Full Article
Pivotal Raises $253M to Extend Cloud Foundry
As the shift to cloud native applications and services gains steam, major corporations are placing big bets on emerging approaches to accelerating digital enterprises in the cloud. Among the ...Full Article
HPE, Microsoft Back Mesosphere’s Datacenter OS
Mesosphere, the datacenter operating system startup working at the nexus of hyper-scale application development and cloud-based delivery of micro-services, announced a $73.5 million "strategic" investment round led by Hewlett ...Full Article
Windows Server 2016 Adds Hyper-V Container Support
The growing shift toward cloud-native technologies and applications running in "hybrid datacenters" continues with Microsoft's release of more technical details for Windows Server 2016. As EnterpriseTech reported in August, ...Full Article
Michael Dell Talks EMC, Hybrid Cloud, PCs at Dell World
A week after Dell acquired EMC, the Texas company's premier client event resonated with its emphasis on end-to-end devices, customer-centric solutions, and building for the future. "Dell is set ...Full Article
Stormy Seas Ahead for Safe Harbor Users
When Europe's top court declared the Safe Harbor data-transfer agreement invalid, it should not have come as a surprise to those who follow the continent's privacy rulings. But now ...Full Article
DataStax Partners With Microsoft, Unveils Graph Database
DataStax has augmented the latest release of its Cassandra distributed database with an open source, scale-out graph database capability. The upgrade coincides with a preview release of the latest ...Full Article
AWS Back in Business, but Enterprises Can Learn from Outage
Amazon Web Services appears to have recovered from an outage that disrupted customers including Tinder, Netflix, and IMDb on Sunday. And while the service's disruption should not dissuade businesses ...Full Article
When Vendors Don’t Play Nice, the Enterprise Loses
Microsoft is leading the way to the future of the enterprise business model. This might be hard to believe considering the company’s track record of locking users into its ...Full Article
Docker Tool Chest Continues to Grow
Adoption and expansion of Docker application container technology continues to gain steam. San Francisco-based Docker, the de facto leader of the Linux distributed app container movement, announced an update ...Full Article
