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 watcher 451 Research reported on January 6 that IoT-related mergers and acquisitions were north of $14 ...Full article
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 for 2014 reveal that cloud vendors are becoming more adept at scaling their offerings while maintaining ...Full article
"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 industry trends identified by Red Hat also focused on areas like application development along with OpenStack ...Full article
Now that Lenovo Group has completed the takeover of the X86 server business from IBM, the company can talk a little more specifically about how it hopes to expand its take in the systems space and its aspirations going forward. The combined Lenovo X86 server business and IBM's System x division gives Lenovo a credible ...Full article
The hyperscale datacenter operators take a lot from the open source software community to run their businesses, but they also give back. Facebook has opened up its server, storage, and datacenter designs through the Open Compute Project and has also put out source code to help database, caching, and other programs in its application stack ...Full article
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 to the network edge. The push also is intended to flesh out Cisco's IoE strategy as ...Full article
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 a cloud-based customer management tool. The federal cloud announcement follows certification under FedRAMP, the Federal Risk ...Full article
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 week to showcase its year-old IoT initiative embodied in what it calls the Intel IoT platform. ...Full article
Enterprise data centers have been using cloud computing for several years for their low-risk environments, such as test-dev and non-mission-critical applications. In this context, the benefits of cloud computing are well understood. IT managers can use the cloud to easily and cost-efficiently set up and provision an application environment without the limitations and hardware investment ...Full article
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, updates. Under development "in plain sight" for two years and widely used on mobile devices, Canonical ...Full article
The ecosystem for Power Systems machines is building faster than many might be expecting, and it looks like a bunch of new machines will be coming to market by the middle of next year that are based on designs from vendors other than IBM. This, and the possibility that Big Blue and its OpenPower Foundation ...Full article
A few years back, search engine giant Google invented a term called warehouse-scale computing to talk about the hyperscale that it operates its applications within. That term never really caught on, but the idea of operating applications across large clusters of machines as if they were one single machine has persisted. To do so requires ...Full article
Legislation that would speed consolidation the federal government's more than 9,600 datacenters while centralizing the authority of agency chief information officers is expected to be approved by Congress this week as part of a military spending bill. A stripped down version of the Federal Information Technology Information Reform Act is likely to be approved after ...Full article
The application container ecosystem continues to expand as heavy hitters like IBM and VMware embrace Docker and other container deployment approaches to delivering distributed apps to the cloud. VMware has announced technology integrations with Docker and the Kubernetes container orchestration project spearheaded by Google and others to manage deployment of clusters of Linux containers. The ...Full article
A technology roadmap for the storage industry is forecasting a ten-fold increase in hard drive storage capacity over the next decade as new recording technologies come online to boost areal densities. The Advanced Storage Technology Consortium's technology roadmap extending out to 2025 projects a 30 percent compounded annual growth rate for hard drive areal density ...Full article
The third 64-bit ARM processor aimed at datacenter workloads has just entered the field now that Cavium Networks, a maker of multicore chips aimed at networking and other embedded workloads, has begun sampling its ThunderX chips to early customers making servers, networking, and storage equipment. Cavium, which has expertise with the MIPS RISC architecture and ...Full article
The momentum for Docker software containers is not just building, but is exploding as the eponymous company behind the technology builds its partner ecosystem and offers a compelling alternative to full-on server virtualization to enterprises. It is ironic that at precisely that moment an upstart vendor of a hyperscale-tuned Linux operating system called CoreOS is ...Full article
As Sony Pictures learned the hard way this week, the relatively small cost of backing up your data is worth the expense and trouble. Still, a survey released this week by storage giant EMC found that the vast majority of global enterprises are "behind the curve" when it comes to data security. The timing of ...Full article
The server market is splitting into segments that do not track along with one another anymore. Hyperscale companies that build massive public clouds, consumer-facing applications, or a little of both and that exclusively use X86-based machinery, are driving volumes. Enterprises are still buying a mix of machinery, even though their datacenters are dominated by X86 ...Full article
For all the talk about all-flash arrays, there are still companies and customers who want hybrid arrays because they think machines that mix flash and disk storage offer the right mix of price and performance for specific jobs. This is an argument that will not be settled until the last disk drive head crashes into ...Full article
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