Hewlett-Packard has announced what is expected to be the first of several networking and cloud acquisitions this year, snapping up wireless networking specialist Aruba Networks Inc. in a bid to speed the transition to converged campus networks. HP said Monday (March 2) the equity value of the deal is about $3 billion, including net of ...Full article
The virtualization technology that has expanded the capacity of datacenters is gradually shifting to telecommunications and other networks via a growing list of cloud approaches that are enabling software-defined solutions like network functions virtualization. Cloud vendors, particularly OpenStack backers, along with networking companies are increasingly joining forces to develop scalable platforms that support network virtualization. ...Full article
Chipmaker AMD said this week its latest server graphic processor has been designed into the latest generation of Hewlett-Packard's Proliant servers. Separately, HP said it Helion cloud platform would support a range of Oracle database applications. AMD and HP said the combination of the FirePro server GPU and the HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9 server targets ...Full article
While the open-source software community continues to thrive, there is a growing sense of "solutions in search of a problem" and that open-source vendors and customers may be talking past one another. With that perception in mind along with the need to drive innovation in the development of platform-as-a-service offerings, Red Hat said Thursday (Feb. ...Full article
The CIA is preparing to rollout a classified version of an Amazon Web Services (AWS) marketplace to support the U.S. intelligence apparatus as it puts the finishing touches on a Commercial Cloud Services region completed by AWS in less than 18 months. Doug Wolfe, the CIA's chief information officer, said during an industry event on ...Full article
As federal cloud provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) readies its commercial cloud service for the CIA, other vendors are lining up to supply the analytical and other tools needed to harness the enormous amounts of data to be stored and analyzed in the emerging spy and other federal clouds. Among them is new CIA partner ...Full article
Hyper-converged infrastructure specialist Pivot3 announced a $45 million funding round on Tuesday (Feb. 24). It said proceeds from the equity and bank-funding round will be used to expand its sales and marketing efforts as demand increases for its infrastructure products. "The new funding is aimed at accelerating Pivot3’s growth and extends the company’s technological competitive ...Full article
An initiative integrating Google Kubernetes containers with OpenStack automation features aims to help speed enterprise deployment and management of applications containers. Pure-play OpenStack developer Mirantis said Tuesday (Feb. 24) it is collaborating with Google to integrate Kubernetes with OpenStack. The initiative would eliminate the need to build an infrastructure from scratch by giving developers access ...Full article
Microsoft researchers who have for several years been migrating its software cloud services onto programmable hardware are reporting an advance in high-end machine learning the company hopes will boost datacenter processing power. In a white paper released Monday (Feb. 23), Microsoft researchers report on progress in developing what it calls a convolutional neural network (CNN) ...Full article
The rise of Linux container technology as a means of packaging and running web applications is creating an opening for open source software needed to distribute and orchestrate app containers across datacenters. Hence, the emerging ecosystem around Apache Mesos is transforming what is now an abstraction layer in the cloud stack into what proponents call ...Full article
With networking companies and device makers jumping on the Internet of Things bandwagon, market drivers like expanding capacity via virtualized datacenters and the implementation of new standards like IPv6 are laying the groundwork for what could eventually become the Internet of Everything. Industry observers predict that market segments like industrial will be among the first ...Full article
Google has tentatively traced the cause of a roughly two-hour global cloud outage to an internal software issue related to its virtual network traffic routing. The Google Compute Engine public cloud outage commenced at 10:40 p.m. Pacific time on Wednesday (Feb. 18); traffic loss was stopped and normal traffic levels resumed at about 1:20 a.m. ...Full article
As cloud datacenters expand to handle web-scale workloads, network vendors like Hewlett-Packard and Cisco System are placing more emphasis on the plumbing required to handle cloud and big data workloads. The latest example comes from HP, which announced a line of new open network switches on Feb. 19 targeting web-scale cloud datacenters. The open switches ...Full article
Graphics accelerators have been used over the last several years as a complement to or replacement for standard CPUs. GPU leaders like Nvidia have pushed the trend, arguing that graphics processors have advanced to the point where they can also be used for high-end computing tasks. Now, Nvidia and a partner are targeting specific markets ...Full article
The world's largest chipmaker says it leveraged components of the IT infrastructure it supplies for others to generate $350 million in revenues during 2014, according to the company's annual IT business review. The company, which employs 106,000 full-time workers in 66 countries, stressed in a recently released report that it is making greater use of ...Full article
Red Hat's latest OpenStack Platform release is said to expand the virtual machine storage capabilities of Ceph storage software the open source software leader acquired last year. The company announced general availability on February 17 of its Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6, which is based on the OpenStack Juno release. Red Hat said ...Full article
The push to elevate all-flash arrays as the primary storage technology of choice got a boost this week from Violin Memory Inc., which rolled out two new all-flash arrays designed to handle primary storage and active workloads at a cost the company insists is below traditional disk storage. Along with its 7300 and 7700 all-flash ...Full article
NumaQ comes installed and integrated with tested and integrated open source analytics software. NumaQ’s unique scalable in-memory architecture is matched to Spark's in-memory analytics engine, and to R's hunger for memory. To further promote the use of open source analytics, the Numascale team is working closely with the community on tighter integration of Spark, R ...Full article
The steady transition of digital businesses to the cloud is driving robust growth in the U.S. datacenter market, with Dallas and the Northern Virginia areas leading the way in 2014 as each market attracted nearly 40 megawatts of new datacenter leases. In a market survey released this week by the commercial real estate broker Cushman ...Full article
Fujitsu is rolling out an IP address management service as part of a deal with British carrier BT aimed at corralling the proliferation of addresses needed for ubiquitous mobile devices connecting to IP-based networks. The partners said Thursday (February 12) the new "IP Address Management-as-a-Service" offering combines BT's Diamond IP service with Fujitsu's Trust Public ...Full article
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