John Chambers, CEO at Cisco Systems for the past 25 years, has hosted a CiscoLive customer and partner events each year he has steered the company, moving it from routing into switching, telephony, collaboration, and most recently systems. Like other IT industry titans, Cisco has made its share of mistakes, and the fact that it ...Full article
Facebook is taking a familiar tack among technology companies: It wants to move beyond the public perception that it is only a social media company to be seen as a job creator and engine of U.S. economic growth. In Facebook's case, the company is highlighting the fact that its datacenter construction in the state of ...Full article
DSSD, the secretive flash storage startup founded by some prominent ex-Sun Microsystem techies, is letting out some details about its forthcoming products. Or rather, early investor and now parent company EMC is talking a bit about the flash storage to pique the interest of enterprise and possibly supercomputing shops looking for zippy flash storage to ...Full article
Virtual machines do not always behave themselves and Intel wants to change that through a combination of circuitry in its processors and software that it develops in-house and plugs into hypervisors and cloud controllers. This software effort by Intel is yet another example of the company trying to get out in front of problems it ...Full article
An "orchestrated datacenter" rolled out by Hewlett-Packard aims to accelerate the design and deployment of applications, infrastructure and cloud-based services, the company said. The adoption of cloud computing and mobility is accelerating the life cycle of applications while forcing network administrators to focus more closely on enterprise users in the design and delivery of applications. ...Full article
IBM researchers are claiming a new density record for tape storage technology based on joint research with manufacturer Fujifilm focused on barium ferrite (BaFe) tape particle technology. The IBM advance follows a similar high-density storage announcement from Sony. IBM Research engineers in Zurich, Switzerland, said they demonstrated a prototype version of a new tape based ...Full article
IBM and Lenovo Group have said very little about the progress of the $2.3 billion deal that will see the Chinese company take over IBM's X86 server business. But at the Edge 2014 conference hosted by IBM in Las Vegas this week, the company said the deal was on track. In a keynote address, Adalio ...Full article
VMware has launched the latest version of its cloud management tool that incorporates machine learning to speed analysis of log data to break the growing log jam of unstructured data. The company said vCenter Log Insight 2.0 targets physical, virtual, and hybrid clouds. Big data analytics capabilities also include a claimed six-fold increase in query ...Full article
Just because IBM is in the middle of trying to sell off its System x X86 server business to Lenovo Group does not mean that the system engineering stops. In fact, one of the things that the Chinese system maker is willing to pay $2.3 billion for is the ongoing development of the System x ...Full article
The potent combination of OpenStack cloud computing software, Open Compute Project minimalist hardware designed explicitly for hyperscale datacenters, and fanatical support may not be enough to allow for Rackspace Hosting to standalone and compete with its much larger rivals in the public cloud. Rumors that Rackspace was exploring its options broke last week in the ...Full article
Running distributed applications on cloud computing capacity means, in theory, that IT shops never have to do capacity planning again. For large enough aggregations of lines of business inside of a company or enterprises that share capacity on a public cloud, the ups and downs across time zones and workloads should all balance out. This ...Full article
The UCS converged systems business at Cisco Systems is beginning to find its natural level in the market, with slower growth that is nonetheless many times more than that of the systems market overall. And, as the financial results from Cisco for its third quarter of fiscal 2014 ended in April show, the overall datacenter ...Full article
All-flash array upstart Pure Storage is revving up its machines to take on bigger storage jobs as well as pushing down into smaller sites with its fourth generation of products. The new FlashArray 400 series have been refreshed with zippier X86 controllers, and like their predecessors, the machines use consumer-grade multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash ...Full article
It was a cloudy week for Microsoft at its annual TechEd shindig, which was held in Houston, Texas, this time around. The consistent theme of the announcements has been that Microsoft has the scale and tools that make Azure the appropriate public cloud companion to Windows and Linux workloads already inside of enterprise datacenters. Microsoft ...Full article
There is no question that OpenStack has momentum behind it and that organizations of all types and stripes are thinking about how they might deploy the open source tool as the main control plane for their infrastructure. OpenStack has lots of mindshare, but it has yet to become a normal tool in use among large ...Full article
The box counters at IDC are still working on a method to dice and slice how the market for converged systems is shaping up. Last year, as it was clear that machines that preconfigure servers, storage, networks, and management software – and sometimes all the way up to systems software preconfigured for very specific workloads. ...Full article
Everybody is trying to make money on the OpenStack wave and every day a new distribution seems to pop into existence. Linux enthusiasts are probably having flashbacks to the late 1990s and early 2000s when that open source operating system first took off in the enterprise. Red Hat may not have been an early mover ...Full article
The National Institutes of Health is launching a massive IT acquisition program that will include commodity cloud and managed services. NIH released a request for proposals for its $20 billion Chief Information Officer-Commodity Solutions contract. The 10-year program is structured as a "government-wide acquisition contract" overseen by the NIH CIO. According to a request for ...Full article
The final big chunk of software that commercial Linux juggernaut and virtualization and cloud player Red Hat has not yet open sourced after making a big acquisition has been set free. At the OpenStack Summit 2014 event in Atlanta, Red Hat said that it was opening up its CloudForms hybrid cloud management tool and would, ...Full article
OpenStack is up against some pretty big odds, taking on the likes of Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft to determine the future of cloud computing. And it thinks of itself as the Rebel Alliance up against the Death Star. Or at least one prominent OpenStacker speaking at the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta does. Google ...Full article
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