As enterprise cloud deployments continue to rise, so too do concerns about network performance, concludes an enterprise cloud study by the largest of network providers, Verizon. In its annual cloud market study, the giant carrier highlighted network performance as a potential stumbling block as enterprise cloud deployments reach stratospheric heights. The cloud adoption numbers are ...Full article
The third installment of a batch of open source software from Red Hat includes development tools, dynamic languages, and databases along with new container technology. Red Hat stressed in releasing Software Collections 1.2 that the toolset is on a "separate lifecycle" from its better-known Red Hat Enterprise Linux server and workstation distribution. That means the ...Full article
Big-time professional sports are increasingly turning to networking and analytics technologies as they seek to enhance the "fan experience." New, publicly financed sports palaces now come with networking features designed to connect fans to their team, allowing team owners to sweep up more data about what fans are talking about or whether they'd be interested ...Full article
All large companies, whether they are hyperscale datacenter operators or cloud providers or they are enterprises supporting a diverse mix of workloads, wrestle with the polar opposites of creating unique systems to run particular applications and offering standard systems that can run most applications well enough. Standardization makes purchasing and support easier, while buying a ...Full article
The echoes of the blitzkrieg of product announcements at the Strata + Hadoop World conference in New York are fading. Now is a good time to step back and give an assessment of the role that the Hadoop platform is playing at large enterprises and how it is evolving. Hadoop is a transplant from the ...Full article
The OpenShift cloud application and development platform is being extended to technology startups with an eye toward eliminating some of the "infrastructure pain points" faced by harried new companies. That is one of the stated goals of Red Hat's OpenShift Startup Program, which uses OpenShift Online, Red Hat's public cloud application development and runtime platform. ...Full article
Most disk storage arrays are based on commodity hardware these days. Generally speaking, they use Xeon processors from Intel as their controller brains, they use normal main memory as a read cache, and maybe some kind of nonvolatile memory as a write cache. The disk controllers and disk drives are commodities, too. The real differences ...Full article
Like any other seller of processors and systems in the datacenter, IBM is in an uphill battle with Intel, whose Xeon processors have become the de facto standard in the glass house for everything except legacy workloads that are too costly and difficult to move. By selling off its System x server business to Lenovo, ...Full article
Microsoft is reportedly – and not unexpectedly – developing a variant of the Windows Server operating system that runs on ARM server processors. Bloomberg reports that Microsoft has a test version of the Windows Server operating system running on machines based on ARM chips, but does not specify which chips had been tested or what ...Full article
All-flash storage array maker Pure Storage has been very clear that it is not interested in going backwards and delivering hybrid arrays that mix disk drives and flash memory, as many incumbent disk array makers are doing. But the company's top brass is now hinting that Pure Storage may go in another direction, offering hyperconverged ...Full article
In the early days of Linux, the software years were like dog years in that they packed a lot of change and growth into a relatively small amount of time. Linux has long since matured into a modern software platform, and as such the pace of change has slowed significantly. The other reason is that ...Full article
Today’s high capacity scale out file (GPFS, Lustre, Isilon) and object (Cleversafe, WOS, Amplidata) storage systems make it easy to store tremendous quantities of data. As a result, many organizations are accumulating “Data Junkyards” consisting of tens of millions of files from hundreds of past and present users accumulating for years with no way of ...Full article
Most medium-sized enterprises surveyed in a datacenter demand study said they intend to go with a mix of on-premise, outsourced, co-located, hosted and cloud-based IT operations. The survey also found that storage growth prompted by a business uptick was driving demand for datacenter capacity. Meanwhile, considerations like energy efficiency continue to take a backseat to ...Full article
Microsoft's entry this week into the converged cloud infrastructure market was accompanied by the roll out of a new series of virtual machines for the Azure cloud. In laying out the latest refinement of its cloud strategy, the company claimed its Xeon-powered G-Series offers "the largest VM in the public cloud" capable of handling enterprise ...Full article
Hewlett-Packard is ramping up its Moonshot hyperscale systems with a set of new server nodes and specific workloads in the enterprise that it has tuned up for the hardware. Significantly, HP is shipping its first Xeon-based server cartridge for the Moonshot machines, marking the first time a relatively brawny system is available for heavier workloads. ...Full article
It is October, and that is how you know it is time for various Linuxes and the OpenStack cloud controller to get their semi-annual updates of shiny new code. In the case of Canonical's Ubuntu Server 14.10, the core Linux operating system, its integrated OpenStack implementation, and a bunch of other features aimed at hyperscale ...Full article
Back in May, ARM Holdings, the chip design and licensing company behind the ARM processor collective that underpins smartphones, tablets, and other consumer devices, and that is assaulting the hegemony of the X86 processor in the datacenter, hinted that it would be coming out with a more scalable on-chip interconnect that would boost the processing ...Full article
EMC and Cisco Systems have decided that their VCE joint venture for converged infrastructure would become a business unit of the storage company by the end of the year. The partners said the EMC's "controlling interest" in VCE is expected to be completed by the end if this quarter. Cisco and EMC subsidiary VMware, the ...Full article
Signaling its shift to a "converged infrastructure" model, Microsoft announced a series of moves this week designed to flesh out its Azure cloud offering, including a preconfigured cloud appliance that combines Windows Server and other Microsoft software with storage and networking hardware provided by partner Dell. Along with general availability of Microsoft Cloud Platform System ...Full article
It may seem that the last thing the world needs is another database or data store, but a new stealthy startup founded by a team of database and analytics experts that hail from Oracle, Teradata, Actian, Cloudera, Microsoft, and Google think that the current crop of products were made for on-premises systems and are not ...Full article
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