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Digital Photo Leader Embraces Flash Storage

March 13th, 2015 (0)

As the name implies, Shutterfly Inc. is a digital retailer of high-end "personalized photo-based products and services," which is to say it has turned the family photo album in a big digital business. As the market analysts say, Shutterfly ...

HP Gains U.S. Approval for Software Security Tool

March 12th, 2015 (0)

Hewlett-Packard joins a growing list of commercial cloud vendors authorized to provide cloud services to the federal government, becoming the first to offer a security software tool. HP claimed this week it is the first commercial vendor authorized to ...

Facebook Targets Datacenter with Server SoC

March 12th, 2015 (0)

Facebook used this week's Open Compute Project summit to introduce a system-on-a-chip targeting the emerging micro-server market. Code-named "Yosemite," the "server-class" SoC was developed along with Intel Corp. as part of an open server chassis intended to help scale ...

HP Targets Service Providers With New Server Line

March 11th, 2015 (0)

Hewlett-Packard is seeking to capitalize on the growth of dedicated and shared cloud service providers with a portfolio of server, networking and other support tools intended to help service providers differentiate their services. HP said Tuesday (March 10) its ...

Startup Vapor I/O Debuts Hyper-Converged Datacenter

March 10th, 2015 (0)

Startup Vapor I/O emerged from stealth mode this week with its vision of a hyper-collapsed datacenter that seeks to add intelligence to the equation by including workloads "as a critical data point" for calculating efficiency in heretofore disconnected datacenters. ...

Dell Targets Network Bottleneck with Switch Interface

March 10th, 2015 (0)

In an attempt to move software-defined networking off the drawing board and into the datacenter, Dell's networking unit is rolling out a switch interface as a standard API that attempts to abstract software between various network operating systems and ...

Banks Pursue Mixed Cloud Strategy

March 9th, 2015 (0)

Much of the financial sector is still trying to come up with a cloud migration strategy, but those businesses attempting to implement one are leveraging both private and public clouds, according to a survey by the Cloud Security Alliance. ...

DevOps Emerges in the Enterprise

March 5th, 2015 (0)

The DevOps culture that is shifting from hyper-scale datacenters to the enterprise may also be fueling demand for toolsets like Chef and Puppet, according to a new market survey. Market researcher Gartner, which defines DevOps as a "tool-centric philosophy" ...

Red Hat Seeds Container Market With Atomic Host

March 5th, 2015 (0)

Red Hat, which less then a year ago sought to back up its mantra "The app is king" by unveiling an application container initiative called "Project Atomic," has announced general availability of an operating system tweaked to run workloads ...

Docker Scales Containers With Networking Deal

March 4th, 2015 (0)

Software-defined networking and application container technology are being combined in an acquisition announced this week by Docker Inc. The San Francisco-based corporate entity sponsoring the open platform for distributed cloud applications said Wednesday (March 4) it will acquire SDN ...