Investors continue to pour cash into the burgeoning open source ecosystem. Mirantis, which bills itself as one of the few pure-play OpenStack software vendors, announced a whopping $100 million Series B funding round led by Insight Venture Partners. The Mountain View, California software firm claims the investment is the largest ever second round investment in ...Full article
IBM has made no secret that it wants to shed unprofitable hardware units, and it no doubt wishes it had been able to do some divesting ahead of its third quarter this year. IBM hit some unexpected turbulence in September and the company's business stalled, coincidentally right when the company was selling off its System ...Full article
The much-rumored sale of IBM's chip manufacturing business has come to pass with Big Blue forging an agreement with Globalfoundries, the former fab business of AMD and a long-time co-development partner for basic chip manufacturing research. The move gives IBM a ten-year roadmap for its Power and System z processors, the former being used in ...Full article
Everybody likes a good deal, but here's a marketing pitch we hadn't heard before: Increasing energy efficiency in datacenters also improves "company morale." That's one of the arguments made in a recent case study released by a company that outfits datacenters, Chatsworth Products. The study describes the experiences of a St. Louis-based datacenter colocation provider, ...Full article
American Express has to do a lot more than just offer credit cards and a network so merchants can accept them for payment for goods and services. While several decades ago the credit card usurped traveler's checks and other travel-related services as the main product that defined the company over a large portion of its ...Full article
Microsoft is jumping on the Docker container bandwagon. The company is expanding its partnership with Docker, the company, to give it access to emerging application container technologies that will be delivered in a future release of Windows Server. The partners said that developers and enterprises creating Docker container applications could now use both Windows Server ...Full article
A healthy debate is gathering steam over how cloud providers will find new ways to power datacenters that are sure to demand more energy as computing and storage requirements soar with enterprise adoption of clouds and the emerging Internet of Things. Datacenters are now a fixture on corporate campuses and suburban commercial zones. Along a ...Full article
In a way, Hewlett-Packard, through its LeftHand Networks storage acquisition, was one of the pioneers of the hyperconverged systems market, although it didn't talk about it at the time that way. And the company is now going to mainstream the idea in a big way, using its own virtual SAN software as well as that ...Full article
In most cases, saying the datacenter is hot is a bad thing, but not so when talking about the financial results of chip maker Intel. The company just reported its financial results for the third quarter, kicking off the tech earnings roll call, and the news was better than expected and sales of processors, chipsets, ...Full article
EMC has confirmed reports earlier this week that it is acquiring OpenStack distributor Cloudscaling as the storage leader tilts further toward the open source cloud controller as a way to expand support for it public cloud services. "To further extend our breadth of cloud platform support, including VMware and others, EMC has signed a definitive ...Full article
As part of a rebranding campaign that started back at VMworld a month and a half ago, server virtualization juggernaut VMware changed the brands on its various cloud management tools, a mix and match of software it had created internally or acquired in the past several years. Now, VMware has broken the pieces of those ...Full article
As more applications are virtualized, storage is said to be emerging as a bottleneck in datacenter performance. These performance issues mean many applications cannot take full advantage of the benefits of virtual machines, according to an industry survey. The survey of more than 350 IT professionals by server-side storage intelligence vendor PernixData contends that the ...Full article
Servers based on X86 processors have Windows, Linux, and other options as operating systems, and an increasing number of switch buyers want to be able to deploy the network operating system of their choice on their switches, much as the largest hyperscale datacenter operators often do or are working to do. To that end, Pica8, ...Full article
Here's the reality when it comes to datacenter energy consumption: If the cloud industry were a country, according to a recent study, it would be the fifth largest energy consumer in the world. The survey of datacenter energy consumption has a definite slant: It was funded by the National Mining Association and something called the ...Full article
Amazon Web Services is expanding its DynamoDB database service with document support along with flexible scaling of larger items. It is also expanding the amount of database capacity available as part of AWS Free Tier. Specifically, AWS said it the enhancements will allow the storage of documents formatted with JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) as single ...Full article
IBM has sold off its System x division to Lenovo, eBay is spinning off PayPal, and Hewlett-Packard is breaking itself into two. Suddenly the idea of conglomerates that have many and often competing businesses is going out of fashion. Activist investors are on the prowl to take stakes and break up companies to try to ...Full article
The competition in the hyperconverged system market is heating up, and companies that once worried about taking on incumbent server and storage makers with their server-storage hybrids now have to worry about – and counter the attacks of – all-flash storage array makers who are positioning themselves as the fast storage hub at the center ...Full article
IBM may again be moving closer to a long-anticipated exit from the semiconductor manufacturing business. According to a report in Bloomberg, IBM and Globalfoundries have resumed talks that broke off during the summer aimed at agreeing on an amount IBM would pay Globalfoundries to take over the loss-making chip operations. Bloomberg also reported that the ...Full article
The opening up of the Power chip architecture by IBM through the OpenPower Foundation has produced its first tangible, practical result, with Taiwanese motherboard and system maker Tyan getting its first system based on the Power8 processor into the field. Tyan and Google were showing off their homegrown Power8 motherboards back in April, with Tyan ...Full article
It is the fall and we are in the wake of the latest Xeon processor announcements from Intel, and that means it is time for system makers to hit the refresh button. The VCE partnership between Cisco Systems, EMC, and VMware is rolling out updated Vblock stacks, and significantly has created the first Vblock system ...Full article
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