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VMware refreshes software-defined data center lineup with new features
Server virtualization stalwart VMware Inc. is following up the flurry of product announcements at its recent annual customer conference in San Francisco with the release of strategic enhancements for a number of existing solutions that bridge vital functionality gaps in its portfolio. The company also pulled the curtains back on a brand new tool aimed ...
Google courts developer community with $100,000 cloud credit and analytics package
Google Inc. hopes to increase its standing among developers with new contributions that take aim at two of the hottest trends in the industry. The gesture that should make the search giant the most fans in the community is the introduction of an onramp initiative that offers startups a massive $100,000 worth of credit to ...
HGST takes aim at Server SAN with Flash Fabric | #LongLiveData
With the rise of the client-server model, storage was separated from the compute layer and consolidated into a distinct part of the corporate network to accommodate the rapid growth of digital content. Now, an exceptionally sharper increase in unstructured information is shifting capacity back into the server to create a new paradigm of data center ...
Emulex jumps on the software-defined bandwagon with management API
After overcoming the initial doubts that accompany every new paradigm in enterprise IT, the software-defined networking (SDN) wave quickly caught up to all the biggest names in the industry, with Cisco Systems Inc. and the other incumbent vendors now actively riding the wave. One notable exception has been Emulex Corp., which joined the fray in ...
What you missed in Cloud: incumbents tapping startup resourcefulness for an edge
It’s been a good week to be a cloud startup, especially for Amplidata Inc., which landed $10 million in funding from one of the biggest names on the enterprise storage block to help bring enterprise data centers up to par with the ultra-agile environments of the world’s top service providers. The six-year-old Amplidata offers a ...
What you missed in Big Data: the numbers don’t lie
More than 90 percent of executives at organizations that are actively leveraging analytics in their production environments are satisfied with the results, according to a poll of more than 4,300 technology and business published by Accenture plc published last week. The landmark report concludes that only a negligible fraction of enterprises are not realizing what ...
Piston Cloud plays catch-up with OpenStack, touts resource management features
Nearly half a year after the Icehouse release of the OpenStack cloud computing platform hit general availability, Piston Cloud Computing Inc. has finally incorporated its improvements into the commercial distribution of its software for building private clouds on commodity servers. That means customers now have access to all the new features, performance enhancements and bug fixes included ...
Red Hat extends its management reach to OpenStack and AWS
Red Hat Inc. is bringing the centralized management and reporting capabilities of its Satellite platform to the hybrid cloud in a continuation of its efforts to expand beyond the operating system. The move marks the company’s first major product update since the departure of Brian Stevens, who set it on the course to becoming more ...
BlackBerry buys Movirtu to take the pain out of business phone bills
BlackBerry Ltd. is now officially on an acquisition streak after the Thursday purchase of a London-based startup called Movirtu Ltd., that tackles one of the more subtle challenges to have emerged from the proliferation of employee-owned devices in the workplace. No financial terms were disclosed for the deal. Movirtu sells SIM virtualization software that makes ...
Faster, greener and more software-defined: Meet Intel’s next generation data center workhorse
With up to 18 cores and an array of data-driven software capabilities, the Xeon E5-2600 v3 marks one of the biggest leaps in Intel Corp.’s flagship server processor series yet. The new iteration raises the competitive bar beyond merely keeping up with Moore’s Law to addressing specific workload requirements down at the component level. The ...