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IBM re-asserts storage leadership with new all-flash arrays
IBM is back in the enterprise limelight with two new all-flash arrays that incorporate key innovations from its patent trove to up the ante against the competition. The systems are the first fruit of the $1 billion investment in software-defined storage that it revealed a few days prior. The company’s new hardware-agnostic management platform featured prominently ...
Report: Nutanix working on a standalone implementation of its Server SAN software
The next major launch from trendy infrastructure startup Nutanix Inc. won’t involve any hardware, according to a new report on The Register. Instead, the appliance maker is switching gears and preparing to launch a standalone version of its management stack that can run on third party equipment. The move continues the trend of administrative functions ...
HP steps up software-defined networking push with white-box switches
Hewlett-Packard is expanding its presence in the commodity switch business in an effort to address the burgeoning demand for bare-metal networking equipment. The move extends the strategy HP is pursuing in the server market to target web-scale customers such as service providers. The mastermind behind the model, Alain Andreoli (above), detailed to SiliconANGLE in an exclusive interview ...
Tamr wants to disrupt the data lake with its upgraded information unification platform
A promising startup called Tamr, Inc. managed to stand out from the crowd at Strata + Hadoop World 2015 with a new release of its data unification platform that offers to deliver on the elusive promise of integrated analytics, a term that’s frequently used but rarely delivered upon. There are countless data processing solutions possessing ...
The inside track on FalconStor’s software-defined storage pivot | #CubeConversations
FalconStor Software Inc. is back. That’s the message chief exec Gary Quinn (right) and marketing VP Tim Sheets conveyed in their interview with theCUBE on the occasion of the the debut of the company’s software-defined storage platform this morning. FreeStor is the culmination of a journey that started over a decade ago in the era of tape ...
Forget your passwords! Microsoft shifts focus to biometric authentication in Windows 10
Organizations have another reason to start making plans to adopt Windows 10 now that Microsoft has revealed that the next release of its operating system will support biometric authentication, enabling security administrators to ditch passwords in favor of stronger security measures. The feature implements the second version of the Fast IDentity Online (FIDO) specification from ...
When size does matter: IBM bets big on software-defined storage
IBM has a new vision for software-defined storage that could turn the tide against its rivals in the competition to power the data centers of tomorrow. At the focal point of the strategy is a platform unveiled today that draws on the enterprise technology stalwart’s single biggest strength: its size. Spectrum Accelerate is a standalone implementation ...
SUSE launches software-defined storage platform
After more than a quarter of testing, SUSE Linux GmbH is finally releasing its software-defined storage platform into general availability. The launch fills in another important part of the company’s cloud stack amid increasing competition from rivals. The biggest threat to SUSE’s ambitions for the software-defined data center is Red Hat Inc., its old arch-nemesis ...
Amazon and Google vie to improve administrative insight
Operations professionals benefited from crossfire between two of the public cloud’s biggest names this week as the fight over enterprise workloads shifted to the monitoring front. Amazon fired the opening salvo with the launch of a deployment tracker aimed at providing increased administrative visibility. Upon initialization, AWS Config creates a snapshot of an environment and ...
What you missed in Big Data: Pushing the boundaries
The analytics wave is expanding to new frontiers as intense competition drives vendors outside their traditional comfort zones. Last week saw good examples of that repositioning as Datameer Inc. pulled the curtains back on a cloud-based implementation of its business intelligence platform. The new option bundles the software with one of two managed Hadoop services ...