Tesora, the company bringing OpenStack Trove Database as a Service (DBaaS) to
the enterprise, has announced that Red Hat and others have invested in the
company as a part of Tesora's latest funding round.
The funding agreement expands on the ongoing collaboration between Tesora and
Red Hat, which dates back to February 2014 when Tesora was re-launched with
the mission to become the market leader in database as a service (DBaaS) and
OpenStack Trove. Most recently, the Tesora DBaaS Platform Enterprise Edition
added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.
Today, Tesora is the number one contributor to OpenStack Trove and ranks
among the top 20 companies contributing to OpenStack overall as measured by
Stackalytics, alongside Red Hat and other Tesora partners. This reflects the
transformation of Tesora's development team to focus on the OpenStack DBaaS ... (more)
We Need a Holistic Network Infrastructure: Why Controllers Are Not Cutting It
For years, we've relied too heavily on individual network functions or
simplistic cloud controllers.
However, they are no longer enough for today's modern cloud data center.
Businesses need a comprehensive platform architecture in order to deliver a
complete networking suite for IoT environment based on OpenStack.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Dhiraj Sehgal from PLUMgrid will discuss what
a holistic networking solution should really entail, and how to build a
complete platform that is scalable, secure, ... (more)
Tesora Adds Databases, Distribution Support, and Management Features to its
Enterprise Database as a Service
Tesora announces an update of its enterprise-hardened implementation of
OpenStack Trove database as a service (DBaaS) platform. This release adds
support for more databases and OpenStack distributions, as well as new
database management features, and deeper integration with the OpenStack
Horizon dashboard.
Tesora DBaaS Platform Enterprise Edition 1.4 includes support for:
- The widely-used Oracle Database 11g.
- Updated database versions including, Couchbase 3.0, MongoDB ... (more)
Tesora Announces TroveSpeed Program To Accelerate OpenStack Trove
Implementations
Tesora wants to make it possible to be up and running on database as a
service (DBaaS) with OpenStack Trove as quickly as possible and announces its
TroveSpeed Program that includes the Tesora DBaaS Platform along with all the
technical resources necessary to roll out multi-database, database as a
service within hours.
Over a 4-week period, Tesora provides a trial version of its flagship DBaaS
Enterprise Edition, online training, installation and ongoing technical
support, and at the conclusion, a... (more)
In cloud computing we all know about Infrastructure as a Service, Software as
a Service; similarly Database as a Service is emerging and is slowly becoming
popular among cloud providers. This article is brief overview of database as
a service.
Databases are widely used as the foundation of many enterprise applications.
In most organizations, however, each project that uses a database acquires
its own hardware and software and establishes its own hosting and support
arrangements for the application. Consequently, there are often a large
proliferation of servers and software withi... (more)
Rackspace has bought ObjectRocket, a year-old MongoDB Database-as-a-Service
(DBaaS) start-up.
ObjectRocket's open source MongoDB solution is supposed to broaden the
Rackspace OpenStack cloud platform and expand Rackspace's ability to help
customers run Big Data in the cloud.
The acquisition closed Wednesday on undisclosed terms.
The 451 Group projects NoSQL software revenue growing at a CAGR of 82% to
reach $215 million by 2015. Rackspace expects ObjectRocket to give it a
"strong presence" in the high-growth NoSQL database market.
ObjectRocket's software will be available in ear... (more)