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Cisco teams with SimpliVity as pile-on continues in red-hot hyper-convergence market
VMware Inc.’s newly confirmed foray into the burgeoning hyper-convergence space positions it to tap one of the fastest-growing segments of the data center market, but the move has not come without a price. The long-coming introduction of EVO:Rail at VMworld yesterday was met with the revelation that the virtualization top networking partner has allied with ...
VMware partners blitz VMworld 2014 with barrage of announcements
Once VMware Inc. finished unloading the major updates and new products it had saved for its annual customer conference this week, other companies took over with a steady stream of product reveals that persisted well into the latter part of VMworld 2014. Flash array maker SolidFire Inc. kicked off the second day of the summit ...
Report says NSA built Google clone to share private data
While companies like Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Autonomy unit struggle to sell CIOs on the virtues of using a single platform to search all of their data silos, a new report suggests the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) is already exploiting the technology to its fullest, much to the dismay of privacy advocates everywhere. Documents handed over ...
String of partnerships underscore VMware’s campaign to diversify | #VMworld 2014
For a conference organized by the world’s largest server visualization vendor, VMworld 2014 places very little emphasis on servers. But that should hardly come as a surprise these days, given VMware Inc.’s aggressive bid to move beyond its hypervisor roots and up the enterprise food chain with value-added capabilities. Nowhere is that push more evident ...
Can analytics enable a leaner enterprise? | #HPBigData2014
The analytics movement has come far along its growth path since Colin Mahony, the head of Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Vertica business, opened the company’s first annual conference on the database 12 months ago. Information gained in importance among decision-makers, new technology milestones have been reached and the hardware maker signed up yet more customers for the ...
U.S. Transportation Dept. jumps into the federal CDO craze
The public sector is taking the driver’s seat in embracing the emerging role of the chief data officer. The latest major federal institution to jump on the bandwagon is the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), which has appointed veteran technology leader Dan Morgan as its first CDO. An engineer by trade, Morgan brings more than ...
Embracing OpenStack, VMware gives “integrated stack” a whole new meaning at VMworld 2014
After months of speculation topped with a string of earlier-than-expected product announcements in the week leading up to the conference, VMworld 2014 is finally here, and it’s living up the hype. VMworld Inc. kicked off the first day of its buzzed-about customer conference in San Francisco with the formal introduction of the hush-hush project that ...
HP retools its storage stack for the software-defined data center
Following in the footsteps of rivals EMC Corp. and IBM, Hewlett-Packard Co. is working to adapt its storage stack for the increasingly heterogeneous and centralized nature of IT infrastructure. The hardware giant took another step forward today with a fresh batch of updates that take direct aim at the software-defined data center. HP’s latest product ...
Practitioners, not vendors, drive value from analytics | #HPBigData2014
The true value of data analytics is not measured by the market caps of the top vendors or average industry revenue growth, but by what users can accomplish leveraging the technology, the possibilities for which extend far beyond merely boosting the bottom line. That was the underlying theme at the recently concluded HP Vertica Big ...
VMware signals big expansion plans in runup to VMworld
VMworld doesn’t start until today, but the floodgates are already wide open. VMware Inc. set the tone for its much-anticipated event after leaking a series of major updates that would normally have been reserved for the keynote address days ahead of the official kickoff, beginning with one of its most important acquisitions in recent memory. ...