Try to contain yourselves: Google Cloud lights Spark for Kubernetes (Tue, 10 Sep 2019)
Dataproc service will run Apache Spark on K8s, now in alpha Google Cloud Platform will soon emit the alpha release of its Dataproc service, specifically for Apache Spark jobs, running on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) clusters.…
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Pat Gelsinger vows to upgrade VMware's once 'bad' open-source rep to the 'very' best by 2021 (Tue, 27 Aug 2019)
CEO makes commitment ahead of event's second-day news flurry VMworld  Ahead of day-two of VMware's VMworld 2019 conference in San Francisco, CEO Pat Gelsinger promised to further overhaul the virtualization giant's reputation in the open-source world.…
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Imagine Siri as your IT help desk. Too scary? OK, imagine PAYG on-prem IT. Oh, too much? How about everything on Kubernetes? (Mon, 26 Aug 2019)
Wait, come back. Stop screaming. We're only reading out VMware's news VMworld  It's that time of the year when VMware gets customers, analysts, and tech press under one roof to do a victory lap and brag about all the stuff it's been up to.…
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Western Digital: We're just about DDN with these data centre systems (Fri, 20 Sep 2019)
IntelliFlash flogged to big data storage firm, ActiveScale on the block American drive-slinger Western Digital has pulled out of the storage systems business, telling the world last night that it is selling the IntelliFlash array unit to DDN.…
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Backup biz Acronis ascends to unicorndom after $147m splurge led by Goldman Sachs (Wed, 18 Sep 2019)
Cash for acquisitions, new hires and data centre expansion Goldman Sachs has led a $147m funding round in Acronis which values the data recovery and protection vendor at more than a billion dollars – unicorn status.…
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Not to over-hype this storage chip tech, but if I could get away with calling my first-born '3D NAND', I totally would (Wed, 18 Sep 2019)
Let's take a quick tour under the hood – and spell out why your biz needs this Comment  Anyone who’s ever watched the original Star Trek series will probably remember Spock and Kirk playing three-dimensional chess – a great chance for the Enterprise’s science officer to show off his prowess with logic as he contemplated a range of complex moves.…
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