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News Desk Editor

Cloud, Storage Deals Likely in ’15

January 27th, 2015 (0)

Look for technology merger and acquisition activity that surged last year to continue in 2015 as potential suitors in sectors like software, cloud computing and storage seek to acquire new services and consolidation quickens in crowded markets. According to ...

Researchers Put a New Spin on Graphene Chips

January 26th, 2015 (0)

Among the post-silicon candidate materials for future chip manufacturing is graphene, a sheet of carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal lattice. One hurdle to the use of graphene as a foundational semiconductor material in chips and for storage is a ...

CoreOS Cites Progress on Docker Alternative

January 26th, 2015 (0)

CoreOS Inc., the hyperscale Linux operating system upstart, announced a pair of incremental steps in the development of its software container alternative dubbed Rocket. It also highlighted progress on running CoreOS components on the vSphere 5.5 hypervisor. Since launching ...

A10 Networks Joins Cisco’s ACI Ecosystem

January 23rd, 2015 (0)

Applications networking specialist A10 Networks said it has integrated its application delivery controller into Cisco System's Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) fabric, enabling the partners to offer application and security services on the year-old Cisco platform. San Jose-based A10 Networks ...

Datacenter Investments Focus on Racks, Enclosures

January 23rd, 2015 (0)

Overall datacenter infrastructure growth has slowed over the last several years as a result of datacenter consolidation, global economic weakness and IT equipment improvements. Among those upgrades is a projected shift in IT spending to emerging hyperscale datacenters, market ...

IBM Treads Water While Scaling Cloud Efforts

January 22nd, 2015 (0)

IBM continues to tread water as its overall cloud business grows but server hardware along with management and other software continues to decline. IBM reported this week that its 2014 revenues declined to $92.8 billion, a 6 percent drop ...

Platform9 Rolls OpenStack Manager

January 22nd, 2015 (0)

Platform9, the cloud startup that emerged form stealth mode last August, unveiled its "Managed OpenStack" platform this week, a software-as-a-service offering aimed at quickly turning existing cloud infrastructure like servers into private clouds. The release follows six months of ...

Open Cloud Development Gaining Momentum

January 21st, 2015 (0)

The open source movement coalescing around cloud computing has shifted in two years from developers trying to figure out core features and functionality to today's cloud projects generating "enterprise-ready" software. That's the key conclusion of the Linux Foundation's latest ...

Flash Startup NexGen Targets Flash Utilization

January 21st, 2015 (0)

NexGen Storage Inc., the flash array specialist spun out earlier this month from SanDisk Corp., unveiled a new hybrid flash array this week along with intelligent caching software designed to boost enterprise utilization of pricey flash storage. NexGen, Louisville, ...

AWS Datacenter Drawing Protests

January 20th, 2015 (0)

A new datacenter planned for the Washington, DC, suburbs is drawing the ire of local residents, largely because of the amount of electricity it would draw from proposed high-voltage power lines. Residents of Prince William County, Va., turned out ...