EMC Corp. moved to flesh out its managed cloud services business with the acquisition of enterprise cloud software and services provider Virtustream in a deal valued at approximately $1.2 billion. The acquisition is also being portrayed as "elevating" EMC's current alliances with VMware on the virtualization side and SAP on the applications end. EMC, Hopkinton, ...Full article
Summer means the end of class for many youngsters, but it's an ideal time for HPC and IT professionals to take advantage of free and low-cost online educational programs that can advance their organizations and their careers. Organizations want technology professionals to be knowledgeable about business, something they can attain via collaboration at work and ...Full article
Google moved this week to quell industry concerns that it was throwing its considerable weight behind an alternative application container format by reiterating support for Docker and noting that it has "invested heavily" in the container technology. In a blog post this week, Craig McLuckie, Google's group product manager, acknowledged a "surprising amount of buzz" ...Full article
IBM said during this week's OpenStack Summit it would shift those open-source services to its SoftLayer public cloud infrastructure, allowing customers to move OpenStack workloads across hybrid clouds. IBM said its OpenStack Cloud Services would allow developers to launch applications on-premises as well as on public clouds hosted on SoftLayer platforms. Those applications would be ...Full article
Cloud hopping is becoming the new norm in the enterprise market. As IT spending continues to grow, enterprise buyers shop around for turnkey solutions that satisfy their needs for file sharing and storage. As the competition between cloud providers stiffens, enterprise buyers are capitalizing on the power of choice. For some, a shiny new feature or ...Full article
To hear the experts (or those with a financial stake) tell it, application programming interfaces, ubiquitous APIs, are the glue that will tie it all together when everything but your coffee cup is connected to the cloud via chunks of software code. At a higher level, API building blocks are being used to integrate disparate ...Full article
Unisys completed its decade-long transition of two product lines to an all-Intel platform with today's introduction of the ClearPath Dorado 8300 Series, its most powerful system to date and one the company says outperforms its mainframe offerings. The development and integration firm's new high-end Xeon-based systems outperform Unisys' previous proprietary CMOS processor-based Dorado mainframes, according ...Full article
When Amazon revealed its much-conjectured earnings and growth for its public cloud service, Amazon Web Services (AWS), it disclosed some surprising information in its quarterly earnings report. Indeed, AWS pulled in a significant profit, boasting a 16.9 percent operating margin and surpassing the $5-billion revenue mark for the prior 12 months. Amazon’s strong operating margin for ...Full article
The world's largest chipmaker is entering the application container fray this week with the introduction of Intel Clear Containers, an outgrowth of its lightweight Linux operating system development effort that is fine-tuned to the Intel processor architecture. Imad Sousou, vice president of Intel's Software and Services Group as well as general manager of Intel's Open ...Full article
Without ongoing employee training, an enterprise's expensive security infrastructure investment means little. But very few corporations protect themselves from the growing threat of social engineering. Today only 7 percent of American organizations do phishing education, said Chris Hadnagy, CEO of security consulting and training firm Social-Engineer, and co-author with colleague Michele Fincher of the newly ...Full article
The OpenStack Summit in Vancouver kicking off this week will showcase a host a growing list of initiatives aimed at extending cloud services capabilities based on the open-source cloud operating system platform. First out of the box is the Internet infrastructure services provider Internap Corp., which on Monday (May 18) unveiled a new bare-metal service ...Full article
Data is the most valuable asset for any company in any industry today, yet management of data is often reactive, under-funded and – frankly – haphazard. File data tends to be the highest growth and least managed category of data, but it contains tremendously valuable information about customers, products, and business processes. Firms often let ...Full article
Their work environments spanned industries from aerospace and defense to pharmaceuticals, retail, and government, but Enterprise HPC attendees have many challenges, opportunities, and concerns in common. Often working far removed from IT oversight or expertise, HPC implementations typically fall under the jurisdiction of business users, be they engineers, scientists, or researchers, according to many executives. Some ...Full article
If nothing else, the Internet of Things certainly does generate a lot of research reports. The latest comes from the respected management consulting firm McKinsey & Co. that zeroes in on the semiconductor industry's substantial stakes in the success of the IoT. McKinsey and the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA), whose members include key chip makers ...Full article
Data breaches focused primarily on "traditional computing devices" rather than emerging connected devices are expected to increase the cost of cyber crime to an estimated $2.1 trillion by 2019, according to a new study of enterprise threats and mitigation strategies. The report released this week by Juniper Research found that "the majority of these ...Full article
To further promote corporate adoption of public cloud, Bracket Computing this week added to its software-based Bracket Computing cells architecture a security suite whose controls never leave enterprise customers' hands. Public cloud adoption is expected to soar, reaching $191 billion in 2020 from $58 billion in 2013, according to Forrester. In many cases business departments continue to ...Full article
The other shoe has dropped in the race to define the conceptual framework called the Internet of Things as technology juggernaut Samsung Electronics unveiled its vision that is built around a cloud-based development platform Speaking at the IOT World conference in San Francisco this week, Young Sohn, Samsung Electronics president and chief strategy officer, said ...Full article
Simply eliminating the datacenter, embracing SaaS, and moving to cloud will not necessarily transform a company. That, at least, was the case for DrillingInfo, which morphed from an online permit and completion mapping-database company into a fast-growing global production data provider in the oil and gas industry. The firm, which today employs about 600 people, ...Full article
Fleshing out it hybrid cloud strategy, IBM rolled out a batch of servers, storage software and other services during a company event this week that target the growing number of customers integrating existing systems with big data and other new cloud workloads. A trio of new servers targeting hybrid workloads includes IBM Power System E850 ...Full article
Climate research projects based on big data analysis increasingly rely on big storage to track historical patterns and extrapolate future trends in a research area with countless variables. The open source nature of climate data has made access to huge volumes of archival a key challenge for storage technology. Hence, IBM and other storage vendors ...Full article
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