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Google bolsters global cloud presence with Asian data centers
Amazon’s SVP Andy Jassy, the man who helped turn Amazon Web Services (AWS) into the industry’s most expansive cloud platform, defines AWS’s breadth not only in terms of service functionality but also reach. The vendor’s massive global infrastructure footprint has become one of its most important differentiators in the wake of rapidly increasing demand in ...
Oracle adds new hybrid + OpenStack capabilities to cloud toolbelt
Oracle, like fellow traditional enterprise vendors such as SAP, is on a journey to transform into a cloud services company. But while the business intelligence giant is already well along its way in transitioning to a software-as-a-service model, CEO Larry Ellison’s plans to diversify his firm’s revenue streams beyond on-premise licenses and legacy maintenance contracts ...
IoT will propel digital universe past 40ZB by 2020
The connected devices explosion is not only contributing to an increase in the amount of digital data created everyday but also changing how much of that information is analyzed and turned into actionable knowledge, EMC’s seventh annual Digital Universe report has found. The recently published study, carried out by IDC and entitled “The Digital Universe ...
Red Hat Summit then and now: Big Data, OpenStack top-of-mind
In the IT industry, large-scale corporate conferences usually serve the same purpose as invite-only analyst meetings, giving the relevant parties a chance to gain first-hand insight into the current position of the company organizing the event and a glimpse of its goals moving forward – except with a different angle, one that caters to customers ...
VMware targets chink in Amazon’s armor with hybrid disaster recovery service
Amazon has continuously pushed the cloud envelope since entering the scene in 2006, making a whopping 42 price cuts over the last eight years and rolling out 280 new products and features in 2013 alone. Today, Amazon boasts a dominant market position and the industry’s most expansive portfolio of cloud services. However, competitors still have ...
How Infinio delivers storage performance in the software-defined data center | #CUBEConversations
Server virtualization technologies such as VMware vSphere help lower costs and drive efficiencies in the compute layer, but the operational benefits often come at the expense of increased complexity and reduced performance in other parts of the data center. Peter Smith, the head of product development for Infinio, appeared on the latest episode of SiliconANGLE’s ...
What you missed in Big Data: Hadoop meets big iron
IBM celebrated the 50th anniversary of the original System/360 this week with the introduction of a slew of new products for its latest generation System z mainframe, including a purpose-built Hadoop distribution developed in collaboration with Veristorm that allows customers to analyze their mission-critical data where it resides. The offering, called zDoop, provides an alternative to ...
Weekly Cloud review: Incumbent vendors embrace new reality of enterprise computing
Traditional enterprise vendors are embracing the public cloud as software-as-a-service continues to disrupt on-premise applications. SAP, for one, is already well along its way in transforming into a cloud services company, and it marked another milestone in its journey this week with the introduction of a hosted business operations suite. SAP Business Suite via the SAP ...
VMware takes aim at Citrix with Horizon 6
VMware is reinforcing the on-premise pillar of its hybrid computing strategy with a new release of Horizon that connects the dots between the software-defined data center and the public cloud in a unified platform for virtualizing desktops and applications. The announcement comes a month after the firm introduced Horizon DaaS, a hosted VDI service that ...
NetApp reshuffles top ranks
Storage vendor NetApp announced a series of major changes to its senior leadership team this week, most significantly the election of chief executive officer Tom Georgens as chairman of the board. He is stepping into the shoes of 20-year company veteran Dan Warmenhoven, who held the role of CEO from October 1994 to August 2009 ...