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Weekly Cloud Review: HP Moonshot, On-Demand and Xbox Stingray
This week HP introduced its first hyperscale server, Google and Amazon had major service updates, and a Microsoft insider leaked the existence of Xbox Stingray. Hewlett-Packard made a splash on Monday with the launch of Moonshot 1500, a solution that’s designed to serve as a building block for hyperscale environments. The server stands out thanks ...
OpenStack Grizzly? CIOs Should Be “A Little Cautious,” Says Analyst
The OpenStack ecosystem is growing at a very rapid pace, becoming increasingly fragmented as a result. Wikibon senior analyst Stu Miniman discussed how the OpenStack Foundation is addressing interoperability, and explained how this topic ties in with the recent release of Grizzly, on yesterday’s NewsDesk show with Kristin Feledy. Miniman says that one of the ...
Cisco Augments Fast Track Portfolio, Losses Networking Sales Chief
Cisco enhanced its converged infrastructure lineup with a set of new and enhanced solutions for Microsoft’s Fast Track 3.0 data warehousing reference architecture. The company also announced a series of joint, go-to-market initiatives for channel partners that resell both its networking equipment and Microsoft cloud technologies. Cisco integrated its Nexus 100V series switches with Windows ...
NetApp Expands FlexPod Lineup, Catches Oracle’s Attention
NetApp is bolstering its FlexPod portfolio, a set of cloud-in-a-box appliances that include homegrown storage technology and networking equipment from Cisco. This week the company announced 8 new reference architectures, including 4 that are specifically designed to run Oracle workloads. The new Oracle FlexPods include two bare-metal designs that run the database vendor’s Linux distribution. ...
How Flash is Changing App Delivery, Productivity in the Datacenter [VIDEO]
Wikibon co-founder and chief analyst Dave Vellante says that the gap between processor and disk speeds is “like the distance from San Francisco to Los Angeles”, a challenge that is mitigated – but not solved – at the expense of application response times and business agility. He explained this condition and detailed how flash does ...
Hadoop Loop: Amazon, Oracle Make Their Mark in Big Data-as-a-Service
In one of its latest reports, TechNavio forecasts that the Hadoop-as-a-Service market, which was worth around $131 million in 2012, will grow at an average annual growth rate of 95.16 percent over the course of the next few years. The firm estimates that Big Data-as-a-Service will rake in rake in $1.9 billion a year by 2016, ...
VMware Collaborates with Avaya in BYOD Space, Trims Fat
VMware is doubling down on the data center in response to growing competition from cloud providers, namely Amazon, and the increasing popularity of OpenStack in the enterprise. The channel is playing an important role in this agenda. This week, Avaya announced the launch of the Collaboration Pod, a converged infrastructure solutions that the firm pegs ...
Moonshot is Great for HP’s Big Data Line Up, But Needs More Unification
On Monday Hewlett-Packard pulled the covers off Moonshot, a revolutionary server built for ultra-efficient hyperscale environments. Wikibon analyst Jeff Kelly discussed the debut of Moonshot on yesterday’s NewsDesk show with Kristin Feledy. Kelly says that the solution HP unveiled this week is the product of a development effort the company first announced in November 2011. ...
Outsource Your Cloud? 5 Cloud Questions for SMB CIOs
CIOs working for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) face unique challenges that are typically not encountered by their peers in the enterprise space, writes Scott Lowe, founder and managing consultant of the 1610 Group. Lowe argues that while the question of whether to run on-premises workloads on physical hardware or virtual infrastructure has become easy ...
It’s Moonshot vs. ODMs : HP Has the Potential to Replace Today’s Blade Servers
Wikibon co-founder and CTO David Floyer appeared on the SiliconAngle NewsDesk show this morning to discuss the launch of Hewlett-Packard’s first Moonshot server, a power-efficient hyperscale box that is unique in the marketplace. Floyer says that HP has a history of introducing new technologies to the data center: the company was the first major vendor ...