Docker blasts into 1.0, throwing dust onto traditional hypervisors

One of our new, excellent analysts Scott Ottaway and I wrote up a report on Citrix’s Workspace as a Service portfolio and strategy. Clients can read the full report, but here’s the 451 take: Citrix reported impressive double-digit revenue growth and total licenses from its cloud service provider channel. Citrix also launched multiple new technologies – XenApp, XenMobile, ShareFile – as well as announced a cloud-managed Workspace Services option that service providers or enterprises can leverage to optimize, automate and more easily manage WaaS infrastructure and users while still maintaining the end-user relationship.

Demand for software developers remains high

Office 365 makes huge sense for many organisations, and is growing fast – “the fastest growing business in the history of the company,” according to Corporate VP of Windows Server and System Center Brad Anderson, speaking to the press last week Update on Microsoft’s cloud plans from TechEd

The 451 analysis of Cloudera’s acquisition of Gazzang is up, which I co-authored. Here’s the summary: As more Hadoop projects are moving from proof of concepts into production, companies are looking to better secure the data in those ‘big data’ projects. Cloudera hopes to grease the wheels by acquiring Austin, Texas-based Gazzang, a security vendor that specializes in encryption and key management for databases and big-data workloads. The target’s technology will be folded into Cloudera’s Navigator product, and its Austin office will become the Cloudera Center for Security Excellence, further building out the company’s security capabilities.

As the company scaled, the task of administration became increasingly complex, due to “call-back soup”, a common complaint with Node.js. Call-back soup

My second column at The Channel Register is up, a quick overview of our recent DevOps work at 451. They’ve got a fine strapline: “But you’ve got to untangle deployment wizards from the duct-tape cats” At the moment, there’s some charts missing from it - I’m sure they’ll show up soon. In the meantime, you can see the charts here. You may recall the first one on developers being “a thing.

SAP’s own Business Suite application stack running atop HANA has broken through 1,000 customers and is one of the fastest-growing products in the company’s four decades of operation. Also, some notes in what OSes are used to run SAP, esp. the database portion: UNIX almost never for new deploys. SAP HANA momemtum