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Cisco buys into the OpenStack horse race with Metacloud acquisition
Cisco Systems Inc. may have made its name selling proprietary switches and routers to traditional enterprises, but the networking stalwart is determined to be a part of the open-source hybrid cloud. The company stepped up its efforts on Wednesday with the landmark acquisition of Metacloud Inc., one of the dozens of contenders vying for dominance ...
Wolfram brings the Swiss Army knife of the analytics world to the public cloud
The growing trend of analytics vendors taking their software to the public cloud has been joined by an academic stalwart that is still little-known in the enterprise arena: Wolfram Research Inc., best known as the company behind the Mathematica technical computing engine, one of the most tried-and-tested instruments on the data scientist’s toolbelt. The platform is ...
Cloudera extends sales reach with Dell SI partnership
Another week, another landmark partnership in the world of Hadoop. Market leader Cloudera Inc. has inked an agreement with Dell Inc. under which the hardware giant’s consultancy business will provide systems integration services for organizations seeking to deploy its data crunching platform but don’t have the internal talent to do so on their own. The ...
Another open-source consortium for Facebook, new project to go along
Even though it doesn’t depend on developers for revenue as much as some of the other web-scale companies that have been making headlines in the ecosystem lately, Facebook Inc. is investing heavily in in open-source. At its @Scale conference in San Francisco this week, the social networking powerhouse unveiled a new initiative aimed at bringing ...
Brocade pushes further into software-defined networking with Vistapointe buy
Although barely into its initial adoption phase, the network function virtualization (NFV) space is already seeing consolidation, as networking incumbents look to get on board with a technology that could disrupt their core businesses. Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. became the latest big-name supplier to buy its way in on Monday with the acquisition of Vistapointe ...
Oracle buys Emmy-winning cloud storage hotshot to address media companies’ exploding data needs
Video accounted for two-thirds of all Internet traffic in 2013 and that figure is set to rise to nearly 80 percent by 2018, according to the latest Virtual Networking Index from Cisco Systems Inc. The challenge of managing and delivering that much data is one that Oracle Corp. hopes to address with the acquisition of Front ...
VMware refreshes software-defined data center lineup with new features
Server virtualization stalwart VMware Inc. is following up the flurry of product announcements at its recent annual customer conference in San Francisco with the release of strategic enhancements for a number of existing solutions that bridge vital functionality gaps in its portfolio. The company also pulled the curtains back on a brand new tool aimed ...
Google courts developer community with $100,000 cloud credit and analytics package
Google Inc. hopes to increase its standing among developers with new contributions that take aim at two of the hottest trends in the industry. The gesture that should make the search giant the most fans in the community is the introduction of an onramp initiative that offers startups a massive $100,000 worth of credit to ...
HGST takes aim at Server SAN with Flash Fabric | #LongLiveData
With the rise of the client-server model, storage was separated from the compute layer and consolidated into a distinct part of the corporate network to accommodate the rapid growth of digital content. Now, an exceptionally sharper increase in unstructured information is shifting capacity back into the server to create a new paradigm of data center ...
Emulex jumps on the software-defined bandwagon with management API
After overcoming the initial doubts that accompany every new paradigm in enterprise IT, the software-defined networking (SDN) wave quickly caught up to all the biggest names in the industry, with Cisco Systems Inc. and the other incumbent vendors now actively riding the wave. One notable exception has been Emulex Corp., which joined the fray in ...