The day I met Keith Block at the Salesforce World Tour in Boston he was relaxing in a suite at the Heinz Convention Center, a man at ease with his considerable responsibilities as vice chairman, president and COO at Salesforce. His Twitter bio, like mine, also lists him as a Boston sports fan. We had…
via Keith Block talks life at Salesforce and being a Boston sports fan in San Francisco — TechCrunch
In what is clearly part of the company’s efforts to get more enterprise customers on its platforms, Google today announced that it has renewed its ISO 27001 certification for the fourth year in a row and upped its product coverage from 34 to 59 products. In addition, Google Apps for Work and the Google Cloud Platform have…
via Google for Work and Google Cloud Platform get new security and privacy certifications — TechCrunch
Rackspace today announced that it is partnering with AppFormix to bring that company’s cloud monitoring and performance optimization tools to its private OpenStack cloud customers. Thanks to this partnership, Rackspace will now license AppFormix’s tools and bring it to all of its private cloud customers who use Rackspace to manage their clouds. This will give…
via Rackspace brings AppFormix’s cloud optimization platform to its private cloud — TechCrunch
Citus has been making headlines lately. Just a couple of weeks ago it announced Citus 5, the latest version of its Postgres database product, but even bigger news was that it was open sourcing it , a bold move for sure. Today, it announced it was releasing a beta of Citus Cloud, its shiny new Database as…
via Citus launches Citus Cloud beta delivering Postgres database as a cloud service — TechCrunch
Mesosphere‘s Data Center Operating System (DC/OS) aims to allow developers and admins to treat a data center as a single computer that runs applications in software containers. It’s based on a number of open source projects, including the Apache Mesos cluster manager and projects like the Chronos scheduler and the Marathon container orchestration platform. Now, Mesosphere is……
via Mesosphere open-sources its data center OS — TechCrunch
Capital One is a huge organization with lots of compliance issues related to being a financial services company. It also happens to be an Amazon Web Services customer and it needed a tool to set rules and policies in an efficient way around AWS usage. Last July it started developing the tool that would become Cloud…
via Capital One open sources Cloud Custodian AWS resource management tool — TechCrunch
Google today launched Cloud Datalab, a new interactive developer tool for exploring, analyzing and visualizing data with just a few clicks. As Google tells..
Source: Google Launches Cloud Datalab, An Interactive Tool For Exploring And Visualizing Data
In my opinion AWS is dominating the public cloud market, and it is increasingly clear that this market represents the largest disruption of enterprise..
Source: Is AWS The Most Important Enterprise Company?
Google today announced the launch of a new Cloud Platform region for its customers on the U.S. East Coast. The poetically named “us-east1” region will now be..
Source: Google Launches New Cloud Platform Region To Better Serve Eastern U.S.
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