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Self-healing networks ease support burden on North Sea oil rigs
Remote locations are the bane of networking professionals, and the North Sea brings new meanings to the word “remote.” For Canadian Natural Resources, Ltd., which is one of the largest independent crude oil and natural gas producers in the world, maintaining connectivity to its offshore oil rigs was an expensive necessity. The company can’t afford to ...
What you missed in Cloud: OpenStack rivals set aside differences
It was another productive week for the cloud as Symantec Corp. overcame its differences with the biggest backers of OpenStack to join the OpenStack Foundation as the much-buzzed-about project’s 16th gold sponsor. Symantec had already made numerous important contributions to the platform, particularly in the area of documentation. Symantec has been especially active in the development ...
What you missed in Big Data: Oracle takes consumer analytics to the next level
Not even the holidays can stop the analytics train. Last week saw Oracle kick its expansion strategy into high gear with the purchase of Datalogix Inc., a leading provider of consumer spending information that tracks more than $2 trillion in buying activity across some 110 million households. That massive treasure trove of data has attracted 650 customers ...
HP exec tells why many users are still stuck in low gear with OpenStack | #HPDiscover
Hundreds of organizations have implemented OpenStack in their environments over the last few years, but that doesn’t mean OpenStack is mature. In fact, most projects are still stuck in the pilot stage, creating a massive consulting opportunity that HP is eager to seize, according to Tom Norton, who leads HP’s OpenStack services group,. In most recent ...
Cloud and analytics are forcing data center transformation | #HPDiscover
Plenty of attention has been given to the ways in which cloud computing and analytics are changing the way organizations do business, but the changes being wrought by these technologies on underlying infrastructure are no less significant. Alain Andreoli, the head of HP’s server business, recently appeared on theCUBE to shed light on what’s going ...
Huddle caps year of explosive growth with $51 million in funding
Cloud-based collaboration provider Huddle Inc. has raised $51 million in funding from new and existing investors to extend its revenue momentum into the coming year. The firm saw a surge of demand for its namesake platform in the last year that sent enterprise sales tripling over the first three quarters of 2014. Huddle also secured ...
Report: Global co-location industry soared past $25 billion in 2014
The global market for co-location services rocketed past the $25 billion mark in 2014, according to a new study of 1,086 data center operators around the world by 451 Research. The growth underscores the broader trend of organizations outsourcing more of their infrastructure to specialized service providers, a shift that International Data Corp. predicts will bring ...
Virtualization pain will yield flexibility gains for ambitious telcos | #HPDiscover
Network functions virtualization (NFV) is usually discussed in the context of standards and vendor consortia, but according to Saar Gillai of HP, the slow-rolling push to help carriers modernize their infrastructure heralds a much broader shift that could revolutionize the telecommunications industry. The veteran executive recently returned to theCUBE at HP’s Discover conference in Barcelona to share ...
HP’s novel SDN app store draws praise, users | #HPDiscover
Few trends have adapted as well from the consumer world to the enterprise as application marketplaces. Dell recently rolled out a provider-neutral catalog of cloud services, Salesforce.com Inc. is launching a selection of partner-developed extensions to its Desk.com platform and now HP is joining the fray with one of the most original adaptations yet: an ...
IDC says one-third of IT equipment spending now goes to cloud deployments
Nearly one-third of combined worldwide server, disk storage, and Ethernet switch infrastructure spending in the third quarter of 2014 came from cloud deployments, with payouts split nearly evenly between public and private clouds, according to a recent report from International Data Corp. (IDC). The research firm’s new Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker also shows ...