Japan's NTT Communications is going all-in for software-defined networking technology as a means of managing web and cloud-based VPNs, servers, and network segments in virtual servers. Tokyo-based NTT, Japan's largest telecommunications carrier, said the phased SDN upgrades would enable flexibility in bandwidth delivery, the addition of computer network segments and global IP addresses along with ...Full article
Docker, the company behind the eponymous software container technology for Linux, is fleshing out its application management platform with the acquisition of integration software developer Koality. San Francisco-based Docker did not disclose the price it paid for the company. Docker said Koality engineers and its "continuous integration" technology used to automate secure workloads would hit ...Full article
All-flash array upstart SolidFire, which was founded by a team of techies with expertise in online gaming, cloud computing, and enterprise storage, is launching smaller-scale versions of its eponymous arrays aimed at lowering the entry capacity and price point for prospective customers. At the same time, the company is announcing another big cash infusion to ...Full article
Customers running big workloads on IBM's largest Power Systems servers got a preview this week of the high-end Power8 machines that the company will be rolling out over the next several months. The new Power E870 and E880 machines represent a merger of sorts between two classes of Power systems and are designed to bring ...Full article
They could have called one Hewlett and the other one Packard, but instead, as HP breaks itself into two halves, it is calling the part that sells PCs and printers HP Inc and the one that sells servers, storage, software, and services HP Enterprise. In a surprise move, Hewlett-Packard has decided to go ahead with ...Full article
It is perhaps a lucky stroke of timing or perhaps by design that only days after Big Blue sold off its System x X86 server business to Lenovo Group for $2.1 billion that the company is coming out swinging with Power8 servers that are augmenting their performance using a variety of adjunct co-processors and flash ...Full article
The federal government, in its wisdom, has been trying to consolidate its hodgepodge network of datacenters. The goal is to gain efficiencies in the government operations and, more importantly, save taxpayer money. A pair of reports by the U.S. Government Accountability Office provides a decidedly mixed picture of consolidation efforts as well as federal spending ...Full article
Just because Red Hat bought Inktank for its Ceph clustered object storage software does not mean it has forgotten about its commercial variant of the Gluster clustered file system, which is commercialized as Red Hat Storage Server. Each has its own purpose in the datacenter, and each needs to be expanded to provide more capacity ...Full article
Financial services companies care about three things: Money, security, and programming on the fastest systems they can afford. You can't be a competitive bank, brokerage, trader, or hedge fund if you don't have all three, and ultimately, these all come down to money, one way or another. At the recent HPC on Wall Street conference ...Full article
Another week, another round of cloud computing price cuts. The latest comes from Google, which announced today across-the-board 10 percent reductions in all Google Compute Engine instance types. The cuts include all regions and are effective immediately, Google said. Google said the price cuts reflect its philosophy that cloud computing, "the core of any cloud ...Full article
As it closes its deal to acquire IBM's System x X86 server business, Chinese computer giant Lenovo is setting an ambitious goal of $5 billion in server revenues in its first year despite what the company acknowledged is "some slowness" in the X86 market. "We’re going to attack the marketplace," pledged Gerry Smith, executive vice ...Full article
The rush to commercial Docker software container technology for Linux systems is well underway and very likely getting close to a hype cycle, but the fact remains that Docker is a transformational tool that is hitting the IT market in precisely the right way at exactly the right time. A startup called StackEngine has just ...Full article
Weak demand continues to slow the global external disk storage market as storage prices continue a steady decline despite the inexorable rise of big data. The upshot is stiffening competition among storage industry leaders, according to recent quarterly storage tracker report from market watcher IDC. As quarterly revenues fell by 1.4 percent year-on-year, storage market ...Full article
The main topic of conversation at the OpenWorld conference held by Oracle in San Francisco this week is the cloud. While Oracle co-founder and now executive chairman and CTO Larry Ellison has famously mocked the idea of the cloud, the company has wholly embraced the idea now after an on-road conversion that ended not in ...Full article
Back in July, Oracle updated its Exadata database cluster appliances with a custom Intel processor, and this week at its OpenWorld 2014 extravaganza in San Francisco, the software giant and system vendor is taking the wraps off a new Exalytics in-memory appliance that is based on the same custom Intel chip. Both the Exadata X4-8 ...Full article
Despite the naysayers that still contend that Oracle should not have gotten into the hardware business through its acquisition of Sun Microsystems nearly five years ago, Oracle co-founder and now CTO Larry Ellison has a fondness for hardware, and he particularly likes any hardware that has been tuned up specifically to accelerate Oracle's database, middleware, ...Full article
Cisco Systems is investing $1 billion to help partners and customers speed adoption of its Intercloud Fabric technology. The investment is part of an expansion of the OpenStack-based interconnection technology to 30 new companies operating 250 datacenters in 50 countries, the networking giant said. The expanded list of datacenters would begin offering hybrid cloud services ...Full article
After what seems like an eternal wait, customers who want to give 64-bit ARM processors a whirl can finally get systems to play with. Hewlett-Packard is showing off Moonshot hyperscale systems using the "Storm" X-Gene1 processors from Applied Micro at the ARM TechCon this week in Santa Clara, and it is also beginning shipments to ...Full article
The cloud is flying high in the IT sky; but a number of anxious companies remain firmly anchored on the ground, because they are concerned that moving to cloud-based systems will negatively affect their businesses. Indeed, there are six perceived risks that seem to worry many C-level executives when it comes to the cloud: lack ...Full article
It's the end of the federal government's fiscal year, and that means government agencies will go on a use-it-or-lose-it spending spree before midnight on Sept. 30. Much of that last minute spending will go toward IT contracts that, according to researchers, frequently turn out badly. A study co-authored by a former U.S. budget official and ...Full article
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