The cutthroat federal IT market virtually assures that every time a government agency awards a contract the losers will file a protest. The tactic has become standard operating procedure as technology companies chase fewer government contracts while shifting their emphasis from hardware to government IT services. That strategy was again in evidence recently when IBM's ...Full article
VMware launched its Virtual SAN (VSAN) hyperconverged storage for its vSphere virtualized servers last fall and started shipping it this spring and has seen very good uptake of the technology, with 12,000 beta tests through the spring and more than 300 customers in production in the first three months of commercial availability. But that is ...Full article
The global economy seems to be improving, despite political unrest in various parts of the globe, and the server market managed to get some growth in both revenues and shipments in the second quarter ended in June. Even Europe, which had seen ten quarters of revenue decline, had a bit of a bounce in the ...Full article
With VMware's VMworld extravaganza winding down, the talk will now shift from virtual servers to physical ones. Everyone expects for Intel to launch its next-generation "Haswell" Xeon E5 processors for two-socket servers at Intel Developer Forum, and the fact that Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and Cisco Systems are talking about their next generation server platforms – without ...Full article
Contrary to some of the rumors going around ahead of the “Project Marvin” EVO cluster appliances launch at VMworld this week, server virtualization juggernaut VMware does not want to be a hardware vendor. It does, however, want all of the benefits of being a hardware vendor with the EVO machines without any of the drawbacks ...Full article
Two updates to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 include an improved installer and greater availability capabilities that are aimed at developers and IT administrators seeking greater reliability as they scale RHEL OpenStack deployments. The updates rolled out this week follow the release last month of the RHEL OpenStack Platform 5 and are ...Full article
For plenty of analytics and technical workloads, running on bare metal is still more desirable than running on a hypervisor-sliced cloud. SoftLayer was an early and enthusiastic provider of bare metal servers, particular to the gaming and oil and gas industries, and its expertise in deploying bare metal cloudy infrastructure is one of the reasons ...Full article
As more hybrid clouds are deployed, the cloud and workload management ecosystem continues to expand. Case in point is hybrid cloud management specialist CliQr Technologies that this week rolled out new features for its CloudCenter management platform, including "drag and drop" application profiling and a batch of image management options. The Silicon Valley company is ...Full article
GPU accelerators for technical workloads are apparently like potato chips. You can’t have just one, or even two. That is why Cray has forged a new rack-based variant of its Cluster Solution line, called Storm, that can pack as many as eight Tesla coprocessors from Nvidia into a rack-based server node sporting Xeon E5 processors. ...Full article
Even if you can beat them, sometimes you join them anyway because that is easier and more expedient. And so at the VMworld event in San Francisco today, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger announced that the X86 server virtualization juggernaut would be adopting OpenStack as an alternative cloud controller to its own vCloud stack and would ...Full article
Among the growing number of uses for the products of big data analysis is the ability to trouble shoot datacenter performance and narrower parameters like storage. The big data vendor CloudPhysics comes to the VMworld event this week in San Francisco with a dynamic benchmarking tool designed to monitor the overall health of virtualized datacenters ...Full article
For the past several years, VMware has concentrated on turning server virtualization into clouds, and it left one of its flanks unguarded as it coped with the onslaught of CloudStack and OpenStack and the rise of Microsoft's Hyper-V and Red Hat's KVM as rival virtualization tools. That flank was virtualized and clustered storage, the kind ...Full article
Amazon Web Services got the green light this week from the federal government to begin rolling out cloud services designed to handle "sensitive" workloads. AWS has announced that the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), the Defense Department's enterprise cloud service broker, has authorized it to handle government information at higher security levels. With the approval, ...Full article
Driven by the need to support "monster VMs" for big database and email servers, hyperconverged cluster maker Nutanix is beefing up its appliance server nodes with heftier machines that pack more compute and storage. The news comes hot on the heels of the general availability of the 4.0 release of its Nutanix Operating System, a ...Full article
Just because you have built one of the world's largest clouds does not necessarily mean that you can easily move your own applications to it. Such is the case with Microsoft's own IT department, which is taking measured steps in deploying the more than 1,300 line-of-business applications that run the $87 billion software and services ...Full article
There has been no silver lining behind the Microsoft Azure cloud service during August, according to an outfit that tracks cloud outages and downtime. Meanwhile, Amazon Web Service performance improved during the second quarter of this year. CloudEndure said this week that Microsoft Azure was hit with what it called an "unusually high level of ...Full article
The expected drawn-out regulatory approval process for IBM's sale of its System x X86 server business to Lenovo Group has put some bounce into the X86 server line from Hewlett-Packard. In the third quarter of fiscal 2014 ended in July, HP said that it believes it has gained market share against its peers in systems. ...Full article
Expanded enterprise mobile services launched by Pivotal, the enterprise platform-as-a-service specialist spun out of VMware, are intended to help developers and cloud operators speed the delivery a range of mobile applications. The company said its Pivotal CF product offers app developers a set of mobile capabilities that work with previously announced data services to deploy ...Full article
Creating Google-like hyperscale infrastructure is going to be a whole lot easier thanks to a development partnership between the search engine giant and Mesosphere, an upstart application platform and cluster management vendor whose Mesos tool is inspired by Google's homegrown Borg and Omega platforms and is used at Twitter, Airbnb, and a slew of other ...Full article
All-flash array maker Violin Memory has beefed up its all-flash arrays with much-needed inline deduplication and compression features. While both of these features have been around for years with disk-based arrays, adding them to flash arrays is a bit trickier given the high I/O rates of flash devices. But both dedupe and compression are absolutely ...Full article
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