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What CloudStack? After three years, Citrix moves back into OpenStack’s embrace
Virtualization powerhouse Citrix Systems Inc. has become the latest sponsor of the OpenStack Foundation in a major change of direction that could spell the beginning of the end for its homegrown alternative. That project has been lagging behind its more widely-known rival in adoption for quite some time. Now that its main backer has apparently ...
EMC’s disappointing first quarter earnings rekindle fears of forced split-up
EMC Corp. can expect a harder time trying to sell investors on its federation model after posting a mixed earnings report for the first quarter that highlights the growing challenges of the competitive balancing act underpinning the strategy. Although that’s not immediately apparent from the top line. The storage giant sold $5.6 billion worth of ...
VMware is becoming a Linux distributor to compete with container rivals
The old saying, “if you can’t beat ’em, join’ em” rang true this week with the introduction of a free Linux distribution from VMware, Inc., the proprietary kingpin of the server world. The move marks the latest turning point in its strategy to address the rise of containers, but the virtualization giant’s strategy is far more ...
IBM’s first-quarter earnings highlight the difficult path ahead to financial escape velocity
The industry marked another milestone from IBM this week, but there’s little reason to celebrate. The enterprise technology giant reported lower revenues once again in a bleak yet unsurprising earnings report for the first quarter that caps off three straight years of decline characterized by a steady erosion of its legacy businesses. That wear is ...
Ubuntu 15.04 touts software-defined smarts and safer containers
After more than a year of development, Canonical Ltd. is finally rolling out the latest version of its popular Linux distribution into general availability with a slew of new features that take direct aim at cloud workloads. Chief among the additions is the first major release of its security-focused homegrown containerization engine. LXD made its ...
Centrify debuts privileged access breach buster for the hybrid cloud
Identity management powerhouse Centrify Corp. is launching a new service at the RSA Conference this morning aimed at extending the control that organizations have over user access within their networks outside the firewall. It promises to help address the new realities of information governance in the cloud era. The growing amounts of data that workers ...
Container wars: Microsoft debuts its Windows-based answer to Kubernetes
Hot on the heels of revealing how it’s planning to integrate containers into Windows, Microsoft Corp. has pulled the curtains back on a complementary clustering system meant to simplify the deployment of applications that use the lightweight virtualization technology. In particular, the addition takes aim at cloud-style workloads based upon the concept of microservices. The ...
Avaya’s new stackable switches can conduct electricity to connected devices
Avaya Inc. is expanding its networking portfolio with a new family of stackable switches designed to power emerging categories of connected devices, literally. The series implements beefed-up Power over Ethernet (PoE) wiring to conduct twice the electricity as more conventional alternatives. At 60 watts, the ERS 5900 can meet the heightened energy demands of smart ...
Using Docker in production just got a lot easier
Hot on the heels of Wikibon releasing its recommendations for CIOs to start factoring containers into their plans, Docker, Inc. has enhanced its hugely popular flavor of the emerging virtualization paradigm to take more of the hassle out of the implementation process. The update covers every part of the journey, beginning with the initial deployment ...
What you missed in Big Data: Hadoop face-off
The world of large-scale analytics became a lot more competitive last week as the two sides of the battle over enterprise spending augmented their respective technologies. Hortonworks Inc. fired off the first shot with the acquisition of another partner meant to help organizations deploy their number-crunching clusters more easily. The technology that the Hadoop distributor ...