All week, we’ve been looking at the convergence space. Yesterday, IBM introduced its Pure Systems. Today, EMC announced VSPEX, its version of a bundled system that pulls in storage, network and compute into one package. It’s that turning point in the market that provides a window into the technology stack as we know it and ...

We’re about two years into a new time for the enterprise. This week it feels like we have reached a turning point that will define the next generation of infrastructure and platforms. I spent the day at VMware, talking with the community who were there to celebrate Cloud Foundry’s one-year anniversary. The discussion reflects how ...

Look at the news coming out this week and the trend lines are pretty clear that the enterprise giants are all banking on convergence as the hallmark of their cloud strategy. HP announced its plans on Tuesday for its cloud strategy that banks heavily on convergence. IBM unveiled its Pure Systems on Tuesday and EMC ...

VMware CFO and Co-President Mark Peek is leaving the company to become the CFO of Workday. According to Forbes VMware also said that Carl Eschenbach, who had been co-president, customer operations, has been promoted to COO and co-president. Raghu Raghuram, who had been GM and senior VP, become executive VP of cloud infrastructure and management. VMware is ...

It is all about HANA today at SAP’s press event in San Francisco.  HANA as a real-time platform and HANA as the foundation for a major push to attract developers through a new $155 million fund for startups. With the news comes the announcement that SAP is acquiring Syclo, the largest mobile app developer for ...

For months, we’ve heard the rumblings about HP’s public cloud. Insiders have been offering invites.  HP’s intentions have been no secret,  but now it is official. The HP Public cloud will open to the public on May 10. The move is part of HP’s intent to be a public cloud services provider and marry that ...

Oxygen Cloud is an infrastructure to access content from anywhere by connecting it to a customer’s private storage system. That’s a pretty simple offering. But for many companies, this is the overriding issue. They struggle with how to move data around between a corporate network and a device outside the firewall. This capability gives Oxygen ...

SAP has an estimated 54,000 employees. About 40,000 of those employees carry iPads, iPhones, smart phones and tablets. That equaties to about 80% of its workforce as mobile ready. “We are the second largest user of iPads globally,” said SAP’s CIO Oliver Bussman in an recent interview, He said  Korea Telecomm is first in the ...

The new school of storage is like any new artistic genre or intellectual movement. It grows out of organic disruption. It’s the offshoot of chaos, having its own impact on our culture and way of life. For our purposes, data is the disruptor. The chaos is in the technology stack and the innovators are the ...

Last year, Nokia decided that it no longer needed Symbian anymore. Nope. The home grown mobile operating system needed to go. Instead, Nokia decided Microsoft would serve as its shining light to face the iPhone and Android onslaught. Nokia turned to Accenture to manage the Symbian sunset. As part of the deal, 1,200 Nokia employees ...