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More than 90 percent of executives at organizations that are actively leveraging analytics in their production environments are satisfied with the results, according to a poll of more than 4,300 technology and business published by Accenture plc published last week. The landmark …
Piston Cloud plays catch-up with OpenStack, touts resource management features
Nearly half a year after the Icehouse release of the OpenStack cloud computing platform hit general availability, Piston Cloud Computing Inc. has finally incorporated its improvements into the commercial distribution of its software for building private clouds on commodity servers. That means customers now …
Red Hat extends its management reach to OpenStack and AWS
Red Hat Inc. is bringing the centralized management and reporting capabilities of its Satellite platform to the hybrid cloud in a continuation of its efforts to expand beyond the operating system. The move marks the company’s first major product update since the …
BlackBerry buys Movirtu to take the pain out of business phone bills
BlackBerry Ltd. is now officially on an acquisition streak after the Thursday purchase of a London-based startup called Movirtu Ltd., that tackles one of the more subtle challenges to have emerged from the proliferation of employee-owned devices in the workplace. No financial …
Faster, greener and more software-defined: Meet Intel’s next generation data center workhorse
With up to 18 cores and an array of data-driven software capabilities, the Xeon E5-2600 v3 marks one of the biggest leaps in Intel Corp.’s flagship server processor series yet. The new iteration raises the competitive bar beyond merely keeping up with …
Salesforce.com heads to France with 100% green data center as part of European expansion
Salesforce.com Inc. has revealed plans to open a data center in France as part of an expansion plan that will see the launch of three European facilties by the end of 2015. The move comes as the growing number of enterprise workloads …
IBM drops new machines into Lenovo’s lap while bolstering own high-margin portfolio
IBM Corp. has pulled the curtains back on a new generation of System x machines in what is poised to be the last major refresh for the portfolio before it’s transferred to Lenovo Group Ltd. along with the rest of the enterprise …
Dell bids for enterprise mobile device management dollars
Dell Inc. is stepping up its efforts to diversify beyond data center equipment and consumer products into the higher margin software business with a landmark expansion of its enterprise mobility management (EMM) suite that introduces the ability to isolate work from personal …
VMware and Capgemini team up to help corporations cope with device profusion
VMware Inc. and Capgemini S.A. have entered a partnership to help large organizations manage the influx of employee-owned devices into the workplace in the wave called bring-your-own-everything (BYOx). The agreement between the virtualization giant and one of the largest global providers of IT …
The real scoop on VMware Integrated OpenStack | #CubeConversations
There has been no shortage of coverage on VMware Inc.’s recent decision to embrace OpenStack, the community-led project that threatens to displace its virtualization software as the leading management platform for private clouds, but little attention has been given to the strategic …