Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: William Terdoslavich.

IBM is pushing Apache Spark into the IBM Cloud and expanding its reach into a number of analytic and commerce platforms. "We do talk about Spark as being an operating system," said Beth Smith, IBM’s general manager for analytics platforms. "We see it…as enabling more analytic applications for more users."

IBM will provide Apache Spark as a service on Bluemix, IBM’s cloud platform. IBM will also be pushing Spark into BigInsights on Bluemix, as well as IBM’s Data Science Workbench and its SPSS Analytics Server and Modeler. Some of these efforts have quietly rolled out in recent weeks though all became official on Oct. 26, Smith said…

Grazed from MarketWatch. Author: PR Announcement.

Oracle simplified the process of unlocking business value from big data today with the announcement of Oracle Cloud Platform for Big Data. As part of the world’s most complete Platform as a Service portfolio, Oracle Cloud Platform for Big Data is uniquely positioned to enable customers to maximize the value of their data and accelerate time-to-insight.

The new services, Oracle Big Data Preparation Cloud Service, Oracle GoldenGate Cloud Service, Oracle Big Data Discovery Cloud Service and Oracle NoSQL Database Cloud Service, complement Oracle’s Big Data Cloud Service and Big Data SQL Cloud Service, forming a comprehensive portfolio of solutions for big data in the cloud that enables customers to integrate, aggregate, prepare and discover real-time insights from any and all data sources…

DH2i Company, recently named a Cool Vendor by Gartner in the "Cool Vendors in Servers and Virtualization, 2015" report, today announced that its DxEnterprise container management software has achieved Microsoft Platform Ready status. Now certified across a number of Windows Server and SQL Server platforms, the designation demonstrates that DxEnterprise has successfully completed a highly detailed validation process.

Certified for Windows Server logo demonstrates that a mission critical or line-of business application meets Microsoft’s highest technical bar for Windows fundamentals, best practices and platform compatibility; attesting to efficient deployment capabilities in the Cloud and the Enterprise.   

DxEnterprise has achieved Microsoft certification for the following platforms: 

The Affymetrix data center, until recently, had very limited virtualization. They were burdened by a custom application development process that required physical hardware to be deployed for each project, requiring extensive investment and manpower. They needed greater agility, flexibility, and better use of system and people resources.

VeloCloud Networks Inc., the Cloud-Delivered SD-WAN company, today announced that its SD-WAN solution is now BroadSoft Validated. Service Providers and enterprises can now architect, design and implement Unified Communications (UC) solutions for the long term, secure in the knowledge that they are using both the best-in-class communications platform and SD-WAN solution.

VeloCloud Cloud-Delivered SD-WAN delivers enterprise-grade reliability and performance for Unified Communications Services over Internet and Hybrid WAN networks. It seamlessly integrates with existing service provider networks and is a transformational approach for WAN architectures. VeloCloud enables unified elastic bandwidth, provides direct and optimal access to cloud-based applications, simplifies deployment of services, and improves operational automation. Global service providers are able to increase revenue, deliver advanced services and increase flexibility. VeloCloud’s cloud-based multi-tenant orchestrator provides MSPs with configuration management, zero touch provisioning, and a single pane of glass for monitoring and troubleshooting end-to-end network quality and status.

Ruxit, a division of Digital Performance software company Dynatrace, today announced findings from a new survey titled: The State of Containers and the Docker Ecosystem 2015. The report identifies key issues facing organizations using containers, including in-production application performance monitoring to achieve even more successful container deployments. Download the complete survey report and infographic here.

The report, conducted by O’Reilly Media in collaboration with Ruxit, provides insights into adoption, use, and challenges of container technologies like Docker. Survey participants represent 138 companies across a wide range of industries, including software, consulting, publishing and media, education, cloud services, hardware, retail, government and others.

CloudBerry Lab, a vendor of backup and management solutions for cloud storage services, today announced the immediate availability of CloudBerry Backup for Oracle Database: http://www.cloudberrylab.com/oracle. This backup solution is so easy-to-use that customers can simply set and forget – their databases will be automatically protected — with backups stored in the Oracle Database Backup Cloud and a data restore capability that is both simple to use and free.

The solution is based on Oracle Recovery Manager (RMAN) and the RMAN cloud backup module which provides backup and recovery capabilities to Oracle Cloud, and includes all the features customers expect from a CloudBerry Backup solution, including easy scheduling setup, 256-bit AES encryption, compression and email notifications.

ACE is an enterprise mobility management (EMM)-neutral community focused on providing education and best practices around native operating system capabilities to drive a more consistent, open and simple way to configure and secure mobile apps and drive mobile adoption in business. AirWatch is one of the founding companies of ACE.

Oracle Mobile Cloud Service is an enterprise-quality Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS), and provides easy to use tools for business professionals to analyze and mine data about usage of the MBaaS. It simplifies and secures the process of connecting mobile applications to enterprise systems and other cloud services.

Cavium Product Highlights and Demonstrations (Booth T31)

Cavium’s LiquidIO II Intelligent Server adapters fully support and seamlessly integrate OpenStack software. This functionality includes:

"Much like the recently unveiled OpenStack Liberty release, our new MEM technology delivers on the industry’s requests of a diverse community of OpenStack and container users," said Dan Dumitriu, CEO of Midokura. "There’s a clear pent-up demand for automation as infrastructure density increases and our new technology release squarely addresses this."