Quanta Cloud Technology, the server and storage unit of the Taiwanese manufacturer Quanta Computer, has over the last year been targeting the high end of the enterprise datacenter market. The cloud vendor showed up at this week's Nvidia GPU technology conference with a trio of new server and storage products accelerated with graphics processors. QCT ...Full article
There has been plenty of hype around the concept of smashing the old cable and satellite TV models via video streaming and other services. Just this week, word leaked out that Apple is in talks with broadcast and cable networks to offer an Internet-based TV service for its ubiquitous devices along with one of its ...Full article
Google Cloud Platform has added another service provider, Global Capacity, to its list of carrier interconnect providers as the roll out of enterprise hybrid cloud architectures gathers momentum. Chicago-based Global Capacity claimed Tuesday (March 17) it is the first "connectivity-as-a-service" provider to link enterprises to Google Cloud Platform. The carrier said its platform could deliver ...Full article
The recent EnterpriseTech article, DevOps Emerges in the Enterprise, examines industry analyst Gartner's assertion that DevOps is not a market. Instead, the market researcher insists it is a loose collection of tools used in a specific philosophical way. Do I believe DevOps is a market? Absolutely. Is it a philosophy? Yes. Is it a set ...Full article
A month after announcing a $40 million funding round, scale-out intelligent storage startup Qumulo Inc. has emerged from stealth mode with a "data-aware" network-attached storage offering dubbed Qumulo Core. The startup also revealed a batch of new customers ranging from video studios and an energy company to university research institutes. Qumulo Core is "data aware" ...Full article
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 is in the "memory management" business. With more smartphones taking more shared family pictures, all the ...Full article
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 provide a security software-as-a-service offering. The tool, HP Fortify on Demand, was approved under the Federal ...Full article
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 out datacenters. Facebook also provided additional details about its homegrown "Wedge" Ethernet switch. The impetus for ...Full article
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 new Cloudline server family is aimed at software- and infrastructure-as-a-service providers along with telecommunications carriers and ...Full article
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. The goal is improved datacenter management in an era of agile hybrid clouds while delivering intelligence ...Full article
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 silicon residing on a physical switch. Dell Networking's Switch Abstraction Interface was submitted on Tuesday (March ...Full article
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. Not surprisingly, the security of sensitive financial information was a key concern for institutions migrating their ...Full article
Coinciding with a robust U.S. jobs report for February, the Linux Foundation says recruiters remain "in hot pursuit of Linux talent." According to the 2015 Linux Jobs Report released this week, a whopping 97 percent of hiring managers surveyed said they would be recruiting Linux coders and system administrators over the next six months. Half ...Full article
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" rather than a traditional market, forecasts the approach will transition from a niche to "mainstream strategy" ...Full article
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 with Linux containers. Red Hat Linux 7 Atomic Host, based on tools and frameworks developed under ...Full article
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 startup SocketPlane to help drive networking collaboration about Docker containers. Founded in Fall 2014, SocketPlane has ...Full article
SanDisk said it is targeting big data workloads with an all-flash storage scheme touted as overcoming a key price barrier for an all-flash storage array. The flash storage specialist also is targeting its InifiFlash storage system released on Tuesday (March 3) to accelerate hyper-scale Hadoop and other data analytics deployments along with cloud computing. InfiniFlash ...Full article
In a bid to boost its software-defined storage portfolio as its pushes deeper into enterprise storage, Western Digital's HGST unit announced a deal to acquire Amplidata, a developer of object storage software for cloud datacenters. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but HGST did say on Tuesday (March 3) it expects the acquisition ...Full article
Hyper-scale datacenter deployments along with cloud service provider installations drove global server shipments during the fourth quarter of 2014, according to a market researcher. Gartner Inc. reported Tuesday (March 3) that fourth quarter server shipments jumped 4.8 percent year-on-year as revenue grew 2.2 percent. For all of last year, Gartner said shipments rose a modest ...Full article
An Intel Corp. technologist speaking at a recent cloud industry event used the opportunity to mention a relatively recent approach to designing datacenter hardware: Intel's rack-scale architecture. The chipmaker is positioning the "disaggregated" approach to datacenter design as a way for enterprises to develop hyper-scale infrastructure. Steve Orrin, Intel Federal's chief technologist, pitched the company's ...Full article
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