Oracle expands IaaS and PaaS cloud services

Oracle is adding Engineered Systems IaaS services to its portfolio of cloud services offerings, supporting enterprise customers’ hybrid cloud deployments spanning both on-prem and off-prem data centers.
Based on the Oracle Big Data Appliance and Oracle Exadata Engineered Systems, these cloud services offer dedicated compute and storage resources – managed by Oracle – to enterprise customers.
By doing so, Oracle is leveraging its investments in engineered systems — and its IP in Oracle 12c databases and Oracle Enterprise Linux — to support growing database workloads with Oracle-configured and managed servers that support end-to-end hybrid cloud solutions for the enterprise.

Zadara Storage Kicks It Up A Notch

At its annual Zadara Summit 2015 held in Las Vegas, NV, the company welcomed 75 of its very loyal customers. Neuralytix was invited as one of only three analyst firms to attend this event.
Neuralytix believes that the “-as-a-Service” approach to storage capacity will increase over the next several years. This is a disruptive approach to the entire storage industry that continues to commoditize at a rapid pace. With the subscription approach, and now with added-value features such as Backup to S3 (B2S3) and Zadara Container Services (ZCS), Zadara is able to create greater value within their service, allowing them to outpace their competitors.

NetApp’s Flashy New FAS

On June 23, 2015, NetApp announced an all flash addition to its FAS family of storage systems. Neuralytix believes that this is a positive move by NetApp; By providing an all flash array that has all the features tailored for enterprise buyers, NetApp is helping make all flash arrays part of mainstream infrastructure.

Scaling Hadoop Clusters in Enterprises, Mindful of Management

Introduction Large enterprises at the Hadoop Summit in San Jose (June 9-11, 2015) spoke clearly about the need for management and security as they scale up their Hadoop clusters for Big Data Analytics. The scale-ups in many industry giants underscored the importance...