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HPE Buys Hyper-Converger Simplivity
Making use of the "dry powder" accumulated via the spin off of its software business last year, Hewlett Packard Enterprise is acquiring hyper-converged infrastructure specialist Simplivity Corp. to expand ...Full Article
HPE Rolls Out ‘Micro’ Datacenter
The evolution of Hewlett Packard Enterprise as an infrastructure software vendor advanced this week with the release of a "micro datacenter" offering that targets exponential data growth and the ...Full Article
Gartner: Virtualization, Slack Value Props put Server Sales in Funk
Citing conservative global spending, easy access to virtual machines and a need for reinvigorated vendor value propositions, industry watcher Gartner Group reported today that worldwide server revenues declined 5.8 ...Full Article
SUSE Acquires HPE’s OpenStack, Cloud Foundry Assets
Hewlett Packard Enterprise continued the selloff of its enterprise software assets this week in an expanded deal with open source specialist SUSE to acquire its OpenStack and Cloud Foundry ...Full Article
HPE Announces Flash Price Buster Initiative; Demos “The Machine”
Coming in at less than half the price that it says public clouds charge for flash storage, HPE today announced a new initiative that delivers all-flash HPE 3PAR StoreServ ...Full Article
HPE-SGI to Tackle Exascale and Enterprise Targets
At first blush, and maybe second blush too, Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) purchase of SGI seems like an unambiguous win-win. SGI’s advanced shared memory technology, its popular UV product ...Full Article
Like Water from the Tap: Allocating Storage with a Composable Data Fabric
I live in Colorado, where our water comes mostly from snow melt. We see a lot of snow, which means water is plentiful. When I turn on the tap, ...Full Article
HPE Spins Software Unit to Focus on Infrastructure
As at least one competitor gets bigger, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) got smaller this week with an $8.8 billion spinoff and merger of its software unit with staid software vendor ...Full Article
HPE Gobbles SGI for Larger Slice of HPC-Big Data Pie
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced today that it will acquire rival HPC server maker SGI for $7.75 per share, or about $275 million, inclusive of cash and debt. The deal ...Full Article
