Equinix Cloud Exchange Expands To Include Rackspace And IBM SoftLayer

Equinix announced that both Rackspace and IBM SoftLayer are now accessible directly through the Equinix Cloud Exchange in multiple regional datacenters. The addition of the cloud services grows Equinix' datacenter-to-cloud…

Aerospike Extends NoSQL Reach to Geospatial Data

When it comes to transaction processing, relational databases still rule the enterprise roost. But it’s also clear that a number of NoSQL databases are starting to lay claim to these…

Oracle Announces Oracle Cloud Platform For Big Data

Oracle announced a number of new additions to the company's Platform-as-a-Service that deliver enhanced Big Data functionality. Adding to the existing Oracle Big Data Cloud Service and Big Data SQL…

Cloud Cruiser Makes Cloud Analytics Available as SaaS Application

IT organizations are quickly moving to embrace the notion of having multiple cloud computing options. The challenge now is figuring out which application workload to run where, based on the…

HP Announces Helion OpenStack 2.0 With Enhanced Lifecycle Management And Security Features

HP announced the latest version of the Helion OpenStack 2.0 Cloud platform with enhanced lifecycle management and security features. HP is targeting the latest release at enterprise customers hoping to…

The Ups and Downs of the IoT

With the Internet of Things (IoT) likely to ramp up in short order, there is a need to at least try to project what it all means and how things…

Sysdig Annnounces Kubernetes Support For ContainerVision Platform

Sysdig announced a feature release across its product line to enhance visibility into containers running at scale through wide support for Kubernetes. Kubernetesis is an open source container orchestration tool designed…

IndependenceIT Cloud Workspace Suite Version 4.2 Update Available

IndependenceIT has announced an update to its Cloud Workspace Suite (CWS) platform. CWS version 4.2 brings deeper integrations and connectivity into public cloud architectures, including Azure, and delivers increased controls…

Unified Communications, Same as It Ever Was

Unified communications (UC) continues to be IT’s version of the high school student who yearns to sit at the cool kids’ table but never quite makes it. In the case…

Increasing Enterprise Application Performance with Route Optimization

Many mission-critical applications in use by enterprises today, such as Big Data analytics platforms, financial trading applications, SaaS-based services, retail, ecommerce, and online gaming applications, hosting environments, and video collaboration…