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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)

OpenStack and the 'Internet of Things' By @PLUMgrid | @ThingsExpo [#IoT]

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 Features to Enterprise DBaaS | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]

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 | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]

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)

Cloud Computing: Database as a Service

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 Buys MongoDB DBaaS Start-Up

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)