The OpenStack cloud-computing platform is making inroads in the datacenter where an industry survey found that 30 percent of early adopters are using it to support projects or for production workloads. Roughly the same percentage of respondents to the recent survey said they are evaluating the open-source cloud technology, primarily as a way of offsetting ...Full article
As it seeks to boost global demand for servers, especially in the nascent Asian market, Lenovo announced a "global strategic partnership" this week with networking specialist Juniper Networks aimed at the next generation of hyper-converged datacenters. Lenovo (HKSE:992), which is attempting to expand server demand across Asia, also said the partnership would seek to "develop ...Full article
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) continues to open up its cloud infrastructure offerings with the release of a new storage server line as its targets the datacenter shift to specialized infrastructure and open source cloud computing platforms like OpenStack. HPE is banking on the steady shift to open infrastructure as a way to manage cloud-scale ...Full article
Seagate Technology today unveiled what it said is the fastest single flash-based solid-state drive (SSD), with throughput performance of 10 GB/s. Targeting hyperscale data centers, data-intensive enterprises and HPC, the company said the unit – scheduled for release this summer – meets Open Compute Project (OCP) specifications. The unit is more than 4GB/s faster than ...Full article
Storage is a critical component of cloud services as providers seek to differentiate their offerings via storage platforms designed to handle more virtual workloads, an industry survey concludes. That requirement also has fueled various "multiple hypervisors" strategies as a way to reduce the cost of delivering virtualized enterprise applications. In a survey of 78 cloud ...Full article
Hortonworks and HPE this week announced a collaboration to enable enterprise-wide Apache Spark implementation, an effort based on work done to the Spark kernel by HPE Labs that the companies say could improve shuffle engine performance by 15x and memory efficiency by 50 percent. The collaboration will center on big data analytics workloads that benefit ...Full article
Application container leader Docker has acquired the stealthy startup behind an open source project designed to keep applications and services up and running after a system failure. San Francisco-based Docker said Thursday (March 3) it is acquiring Conductant Inc., launched last year by former Google and Twitter engineers. Conductant co-founder Bill Farmer also created the ...Full article
By bringing to India, Bangladesh and Nepal a low-cost, GPU-driven mobile device trained to recognize chronic disease “signatures” in medical images, a healthcare start-up is building a distributed cognitive computing capability that provides advanced diagnostics to a resource-poor, population-dense region of the world. The eyes, it is said, are windows into the soul -- and ...Full article
Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) rolled out its new network architecture this week designed to make it easier to deploy software-defined platforms, virtualization, analytics and other digital enterprise capabilities. The strategy aims to make promising but as-yet underperforming approaches like software-defined networking ready for primetime in the enterprise by automating deployment and management. Cisco also stressed ...Full article
Operating on the assumption that whatever it was, it was needed yesterday, enterprise micro-services in general and Docker application containers in particular are making serious headway among developers. The folks charged with developing and distributed enterprise applications have reached the point where they are identifying the drawbacks as well as the advantages of application containers. ...Full article
Fibre Channel market leader Brocade today announced the G620 Switch, which the company says is the industry’s first Gen 6 fixed port Fibre Channel SAN switch designed to support the explosion in in storage networks. Nearly 100 percent of the world’s banks, airlines and retailers use Fibre Channel, and companies in those and other sectors ...Full article
IBM moved to beef up its ability to respond to cyber attacks through the acquisition of "incident response" specialist Resilient Systems Inc. The deal underscores growing security concerns as more sensitive and vulnerable data is stored in the cloud. Resilient Systems, Cambridge, Mass., is the developer of an "incident response platform" that is said to ...Full article
In the 13 years since I founded an open source software company, both the movement and industry have gone mainstream, and software development has undergone profound methodological and structural change. Back in the day, waterfall software development ruled. Software design, coding and quality control were managed “top-down” by a bevy of software managers and a ...Full article
Shippable, the developer of a platform for speeding code development and delivery of enterprise applications, has added cloud options and tighter integration with source controllers like GitHub while expanding support for micro-services and applications containers. The Seattle-based startup said Monday (Feb. 29) the latest version of its software development and continuous delivery platform supports emerging ...Full article
With 53 miles-per-gallon CAFE requirements bearing down on the auto industry for 2025, car makers are investigating any number of new engine designs – electric, hybrid and alternative fuel, among others – that will enable them to comply with the government mandate. But in the end, the engine that may win is based on a ...Full article
The point of operating a business is transactions. Hence, a new open source effort designed to create what amounts to an operating system for transactions has attracted major players from the financial and technology sectors. The Linux Foundation effort launched before the holidays is designed to harness block chain technology at the core of Bitcoin ...Full article
The restoration of my 1910 Craftsman bungalow means the house is effectively being torn down and rebuilt from the inside out. This includes a scale model in my back yard of the Mariana Trench, a.k.a. our new foundation. It’s easy to extend this metaphor to the topic of infrastructure. The Woes of an Upgrade When ...Full article
Bulletproof security and new data analytics head a list of emerging Internet of Things technologies seen as unlocking the promise of the construct over the next several years. In an IoT forecast extending over the next two years, market researcher Gartner noted that security technologies would be critical for shielding IoT platforms and devices. Along ...Full article
While a global network of connected devices and sensors touted as the Internet of Things (IoT) remains mostly on the drawing board, the industrial sector is rolling up its sleeves to wring out key components of an industrial IoT that is closer to reality. Among the technical issues raised by a connected factory floor are ...Full article
Spark is in in the spotlight. Companies with big data analytics needs are increasingly looking at the open source framework for lightning quick in-memory performance – reputedly up to 100X faster than Hadoop MapReduce (according to http://spark.apache.org/). As the data tsunami rolls on and quintillion bytes of data are generated every day, Spark is one ...Full article
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