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What the perfect storm of cloud, Big Data and the Internet of Things means for enterprise asset management | #IBMpulse
The wave of new technology that is sweeping through the IT industry is already making a difference for many organizations, but in the trenches, the disruption happening upstream does not overshadow the fundamental need to keep business operations running smoothly. Facilities and equipment lifecycle governance is a big part of that, and the larger the ...
Taking a page from IBM’s book, Cisco commits $1BN+ to growing cloud footprint
Cisco will spend more than $1 billion over the next two years to expand the scope of its public cloud services and bring the individual offerings together in a unified portfolio, the company revealed today. This is the latest in a series of massive investments by incumbent vendors to take the fight to Amazon, which ...
HP unleashes new entry-level storage systems to spur channel growth
Hewlett-Packard is kicking off its annual Global Partner Conference in Las Vegas with the usual bevy of product announcements, this time placing the emphasis on the solidly growing, entry-level storage market. Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) often rely on local resellers to recommend, deploy and manage hardware—which means plenty of business for HP’s partners. The ...
How cloud + social fit IBM’s mid-market strategy | #IBMpulse
Although enterprise computing dominated the conversation at IBM Pulse last month, companies with fewer than 1,000 employees still constitute the fastest growing segment of the technology stalwart’s customer base, and it has not lost sight of that fact. That is reflected clearly in the messaging around SoftLayer, the managed hosting provider that Big Blue acquired ...
Weekly Cloud review: From providers to services
For service providers, the data center is the key battleground in the cloud revolution, and Midokura is supplying the arms. The San Francisco-based startup offers a solution called MidoNet that wraps an API around networking infrastructure to improve scalability and allow for more consistent management in the kind of large-scale virtual environments operated by cloud ...
OpenDaylight: 95 percent of practitioners want open SDN
The consortium behind the OpenDaylight Project contends that maintaining the open source nature of software-defined networking (SDN) is imperative for the future of the movement. The overwhelming majority of practitioners seem to agree, according to a survey commissioned by the coalition. The OpenDaylight Project includes top vendors such as Cisco and Broadcom, and has found ...
New Relic jumps on Big Data bandwagon with real-time analytics tool
Software monitoring powerhouse New Relic is extending its reach deeper into the cloud with New Relic Insights, a real-time analytics service that allows developers to glean more meaningful insights into how users interact with their applications. Formerly known by the code name Project Rubicon, New Relic Insights utilizes the same embedded agents customers use for ...
Google and Cisco forge unlikely alliance to enable enterprise collab on Chrome OS
In its latest push to drive the adoption of Chrome OS among business users, Google has partnered up with Cisco to provide enterprise-grade communications and collaboration capabilities on notebooks powered by its cloud-centric operating system. At this week’s Enterprise Connect Conference in Orlando, Google enterprise products head Rajen Sheth and Cisco collaboration boss Rowan Trollope ...
HP whips out new converged appliance for HANA
Hewlett-Packard this week unveiled a new converged infrastructure appliance designed specifically to power on-premise deployments of SAP’s HANA in-memory database. The announcement comes about a week after Huawei pulled the curtains back on an integrated system of its own that is also being marketed as a purpose built solution for the platform. The HP ConvergedSystem ...
Cloudera, Platfora funding signals new phase of maturity for Hadoop
Enterprise CIOs and institutional investors alike are flocking to the Big Data camp as the industry drives new and increasingly compelling use cases for exploiting the vast amounts of heterogeneous information being generated today. Nowhere is this explosive interest more evident than in the Hadoop ecosystem, where Cloudera has just secured a massive $160 million ...