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Red Hat Enhances OpenStack Distro, Shows Off New Offerings at #VMworld
VMworld may be VMware’s show, but that’s not stopping Red Hat from demonstrating its own virtualization solutions at the conference. The company is currently showcasing a beta version of CloudForms 2.1, the newest edition of its cloud management platform. CloudForms is designed to simplify the administration of hybrid environments that combine on-premise infrastructure with public ...
Ballmer’s Indifference Leaves Microsoft in Disarray
Microsoft dropped a bombshell last Friday by announcing that chief executive Steve Ballmer will quit his post within the next 12 months. Bill Gates, Chairman of the Audit Committee Chuck Noski and other top directors have been appointed to a special committee tasked with finding internal and external CEO candidates. News of Ballmer’s early retirement raised ...
PernixData Unveils SMB Edition of Flash Hypervisor
PernixData, a rising star in the increasingly turbulent virtualization market, is going after small and medium businesses with a new version of its flagship offering, a flash-aware hypervisor that made its debut earlier this month. “Many small and mid-sized companies today sacrifice storage performance for cost when they invest in entry-level storage arrays,” said Jeff ...
Weekly Cloud Review: Virtualization at the Center Stage
Cloud vendors spent the last week gearing up for VMworld. Managed service provider NaviSite revealed an infrastructure-as-a-service offering for vCloud Director users, Dell added three new solutions to its virtualization lineup, and Piston Systems announced that it has taken its partnership with Pivotal to the next level. In other news, Appcelerator acquired API startup Singly. ...
Cleversafe and Panzura Join Forces to Deliver Enterprise-Hardened NAS Service
Data storage vendors Cleversafe and Panzura have entered a strategic partnership to help large enterprises address the massive growth in unstructured data and connected devices. The fruits of their labor were announced at this week’s VMworld 2013 conference in San Francisco. The two companies unveiled an enterprise-hardened network attached storage (NAS) offering that is built ...
Lenovo Takes the Offensive : Unveils Private Cloud Reference Architecture @ #VMworld
Lenovo made a splash at this week’s VMworld 2013 conference with a cost-effective private cloud reference architecture for small- and medium-sized (SMB) businesses. The newly announced specification marries EMC’s Intel-based VNX storage systems with 2U ThinkServers from Lenovo to “reduce capital expenditure through higher utilization, simplified cabling and fewer network connections.” Customers can choose to ...
Zenoss Re-Architects Management Solution with New Engine, Visualizations
Unified IT monitoring firm Zenoss has pulled the curtains back on the latest version of Zenoss Service Dynamics, its flagship operations management and analytics solution. The new version promises to deliver “service-level context” across physical, virtual and private and public cloud environments, as well hybrid deployments. The release introduces a streamlined ETL process, a reorganized ...
Storage Vendor Tegile Gearing Up for VMworld
Tegile Systems will be showing off its flagship Zebi lineup in booth #1928 at next week’s VMworld 2013 conference. The event is set to take place in San Francisco from Sunday through Thursday, August 25-29. Tegile is a Newark, CA-based provider of hybrid storage arrays that recently secured $35 million in Series C funding after ...
Piston Provides OpenStack Infrastructure to Cloud Foundry Ecosystem
Piston Cloud has started a new chapter in its partnership with EMC and VMware spin-off Pivotal by setting up an OpenStack environment for the Cloud Foundry development community. The two companies had previously collaborated on an interface that allows the VMware-developed platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solution to run on top of OpenStack. Piston hopes that the deployment ...
Fusion-io to Put Acceleration Tech on Display at VMworld
Flash shines in virtualized environments, and what better place to demonstrate this quality than VMworld. SSD behemoth Fusion-io announced this week that it will offer guides on how to accelerate VMware-virtualized workloads using its ioMemory architecture at the upcoming VMworld 2013 conference in San Francisco. Fusion-io will instruct attendees on using Cisco UCS Storage Accelerators ...