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Bombay Stock Exchange: Open source is a mindset | #RHSummit
Open source is still gaining momentum in the industry worldwide. Despite naysayers, open-source software and hardware are making believers out of a broad array of users. In the case of Bombay Stock Exchange, LTD (BSE), the transition has been cost efficient, as well as has improved order processing power. By switching from proprietary hardware to ...
Enterprise Application Platform 7: Java is here to stay | #RHSummit
Red Hat, Inc.’s latest move with JBoss is catapulting it straight into the cloud with Enterprise Application Platform 7 (EAP 7). Red Hat announced EAP 7’s release at Red Hat Summit 2016 in San Francisco. EAP 7 is designed to handle moving Java sever applications into the cloud. It’s specifically designed to work with OpenShift. ...
Red Hat Keynote: Robots, Cloud and IoT, oh my! | #RHSummit
Red Hat, Inc.’s partners are up to interesting projects. With each project presented at Red Hat Summit 2016 during the second keynote of Day One came an emphasis on open-source software as a foundation. Three Red Hat Connect partners spoke: Intel, Dell Inc. and SAP SE. And perhaps the most interesting presentation came from none of these big ...
Wearer of the Red Hat: RH Professional of the Year | #RHSummit
Red Hat, Inc. hosts a full complement of certification programs for individuals and technologies. Thousands of people are certified every year, but only one of them is awarded the title of Red Hat Certified Professional of the Year. This year’s recipient is Felipe Ceballos, technical lead at SEAQ Servicios CIA LTDA. In addition to this ...
Driving without a transmission: The future of storage | #LenovoTechWorld
Lenovo Group Ltd. is facing a “once-in-a-lifetime market opportunity” for storage as the competition consolidates into partners. Stuart McRae, director of Product Planning Storage and Networking at Lenovo, predicted that “customers will move off to something different” than their current solution. He continued, saying some will stay with traditional storage while others will use software-defined. McRae ...
How one company successfully maneuvered major renovation in innovation | #HPEdiscover
On day two of HPE Discover 2016, Patrick Osborne, senior director of Product Management and Marketing, HPE Storage Division, at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Co. (HPE), and Michael Lindsey, systems architect at Republic National Distributing Co. (RNDC), announced their successful partnership. The project is simple enough: upgrade all of RNDC’s physical servers with faster and more ...
Sounds of thunder: Ajubeo offers real cloud | #HPEdiscover
Ajubeo began with a market opportunity in late 2011 by career enterprise IT executives. Five year later, this cloud provider is partnered with VMWare and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE). Steve Brothers, CEO of Ajubeo, defines his company as “infrastructure as a service.” More specifically, Ajubeo offers “hypervisor down” or real cloud. Brothers joined Kyle Green, director ...
Edgeline: HPE’s marriage of IoT and OT | #HPEdiscover
HPE’s future is in IoT, and the future of HPE’s IoT is Edgeline. On day two of HPE Discover 2016, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) and National Instruments Corp. announced Edgeline IoT. Edgeline is a converged Internet of Things (IoT) system that utilizes operational technology (OT). Calling Edgeline “the future of IoT,” Dr. Tom Bradicich, VP and GM of ...
DreamWorks and HPE: Innovation and efficiency in the data center | #HPEdiscover
Anyone who has seen a DreamWorks Animation film should understand why the data center plays such a large role in production. Every single element has to be crafted from basic composition to fine-details rendering, explained Kate Swanborg, head of Technology, Communication & Alliances at DreamWorks Animation, LLC. The studio is producing two films a year, ...
‘Network needs to get out the way’ for agile data centers | #HPEdiscover
Looking forward to more agile data centers, one major hurdle is networking. No matter the project, it usually needs to connect to something else. So, the real question is: Can the network keep up? Dominic Wilde, VP and GM of the Data Center Networking Business Unit at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE), thinks so. Wilde ...