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SanDisk Spins Out Hybrid Storage Unit

January 8th, 2015 (0)

SanDisk Corp. said it has completed the spin out of its ioControl unit acquired as part of its deal announced in June 2014 to purchase Fusion-io. The new company will be called NexGen Storage Inc. Terms of the transaction ...

IT Heavyweights Open Wallets to Acquire IoT Startups

January 7th, 2015 (0)

As the number of acquisitions by the likes of Google, Intel and Cisco continues to grow, a market researcher found that building-block cloud, networking and datacenter technologies are helping to flesh out the emerging Internet of Things (IoT). Market ...

AWS Rates Highest on Cloud Reliability

January 6th, 2015 (0)

The reliability goal for cloud vendors is "five nines" (99.999 percent). According to cloud outage figures for 2014, a handful of vendors achieved that goal while Amazon Web Services came the closest among the largest cloud providers. Performance results ...

Red Hat Foresees Sprawling Cloud, Container Specs in 2015

January 5th, 2015 (0)

"Cloud sprawl," the growing importance of the app developer and the maturing of the application container infrastructure are expected to drive enterprise operations in 2015, according to a year-end survey of cloud managers and strategists. The list of emerging ...

Cisco Targets ‘Connected Analytics’

December 12th, 2014 (0)

Cisco Systems marked its 30th anniversary this week by doubling down on the networking segment of the emerging Internet of Everything, promoting what it calls "connected analytics" that would push that data capability along with the necessary processing power ...

Microsoft Azure Gains U.S. Certification

December 11th, 2014 (0)

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella came to Washington this week to promote the government version of its Azure cloud platform. Nadella announced U.S. general availability of Microsoft Azure Government during a company-sponsored cloud summit. He also announced future availability of ...

Intel Rolls Out its IoT Platform

December 10th, 2014 (0)

The Internet of Things is perhaps transitioning from catchy buzz phrase to an organizing principle and, to hear one emerging player tell it, an evolutionary step in computing. Chip giant Intel Corp. pulled out most of the stops this ...

Ubuntu Core Targets Container Deployment

December 9th, 2014 (0)

Canonical, the company formed to promote commercialization of the Ubuntu OS, is targeting container deployments with a "Snappy" version of its Ubuntu Core, the latest rendition of open source OS for the cloud that comes with transactional, or image-based, ...

Euroserver Project Targets Green Datacenters

November 20th, 2014 (0)

A European "green computing" effort is taking a new approach to datacenter scaling while attempting to rein in IT equipment density and energy consumption. The Euroserver project that includes European electronics heavyweights such as ARM Ltd. and STMicroelectronics is ...

SDS, Hyper-C Gain Traction in Datacenter, Survey Finds

November 13th, 2014 (0)

Software-defined storage along with hyper-converged infrastructure may be catching on at the high end of the enterprise market largely because it promises to make life a little easier for those who manage storage infrastructure. Most of the IT managers ...