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VMware COO on State of PaaS, Cloud Foundry and Its Momentum
Early SiliconANGLE contributor Robert Scoble stopped by VMware just in time for the Cloud Foundry’s one year anniversary to talk with Tod Nielsen, the virtualization giant’s chief operating officer. The video was posted on his Google+ page. SiliconANGLE interviewed Nielsen on several occasions at VMWorld 2010, and one particular session was dedicated to how the ...
Fusion-io Sees Real-Time and Small Analytics as Drivers in 2012
2011 was a very successful year for a lengthy list of companies, including flash storage solutions maker Fusion-io. Reflecting on 2011, the company outlined three key areas of disruption related to its industry in a blog post late last month. The first area of growth Fusion highlighted is its own contribution to the flurry of ...
Live Broadcast from EMC VSPEX – Big Deal in Convergence Infrastructure @SiliconAngle.tv
Today storage giant EMC announced the VSPEX Proven Infrastructure cloud reference architecture line-up. It’s a big deal for several reasons. VSPEX has been developed in collaboration with Brocade, Cisco, Intel and VMware as well as a couple unexpected virtualization partners, including Citrix and Microsoft. This decision translates into more openness for customers that will be ...
SunGard Rolls Out Hot Patching Service for PaaS
SunGard made an addition to its SunGard Availability Services managed IT suite, in the form of a new service designed to streamline the process of rolling out updates to live client environments. The idea behind the new offering, named Managed Workflow, is quite simple: whenever a user wants to patch software or make provisioning-related changes, ...
Simplifying Converged Infrastructure Solves Crowded Ecosystems for IT Vendors
The converged infrastructure is a fast-growing arena, expected to become an industry worth over $400 billion by 2017. The stakes are high as more companies seek simplification in this sector, and the major IT vendors are looking to get in on the bounty. Research firm Wikibon has decided to focus on converged infrastructure this week ...
SolidFire Adds OpenStack Support with Early Release
SSD-based storage systems maker SolidFire has added integration with the OpenStack cloud OS, and its block storage now works with the Nova service included in the latest Essex version of the platform. It’s an early release though, as stated clearly by the company, which probably means there’s more than enough room for improvement and further ...
Dell Delivers Off-the-Shelf CDN to Network Providers
Dell is targeting network operators with a new offering called Dell Delivery, developed in collaboration with EdgeCast and Elemental Technologies. The product is being pitched as a content delivery platform, targeting network operators that want an easy means of setting up a CDN service which they can then re-brand and offer to their own clients. ...
Juniper’s Upcoming Earnings Report as Rival Launches IPO
Networking solutions vendor Juniper said today that it will be hosting the call for its first 2012 fiscal quarter on April 24, just a couple weeks away. Juniper Networks, the industry leader in network innovation, today confirmed it will release preliminary financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2012, on April 24, 2012 after ...
From Touch-Floors to Facial Recognition, New Patents Face Opportunities and Legal Trouble
The patent scene has become a rather interesting one these past few weeks, from Nokia to Google, Apple, and now IBM. It looks like Big Blue just won the rights for what may become a housing standard in a few decades’ time. The company’s been awarded with a patent that covers a touch-sensitive floor that ...
IBM’s $7 Billion Cloud Agenda, and Some Mobile Testing along the Way
IBM CFO Mark Loughridge said in a 2011 interview that his company’s revenues from cloud services will pass the $7 billion mark in 2015, and in 2012 Big Blue’s path to achieve this goal is becoming clearer. This is at least what InfoWeek’s Charles Babcock believes – here’s a summary of the future he has ...