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OpenStack holds the promise to provide a common cloud standard across on- and off-premise environments that is both simpler and more scalable than current data center architectures, and provides an alternative to Amazon AWS. But for the CIOs in the trenches, the sheer effort …
Cisco’s latest buy secures telecom footprint amid shift to SDN
Cisco is shelling out $175 million in cash and retention-based incentives to buy a little-known service orchestration company called Tail-f in a bid to extend its ambitious Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI) initiative into the lucrative telecommunications market. The nine-year-old Swedish firm, which has …
Zenoss taps veteran tech leader Greg Stock as CEO
With more and more hardware vendors moving up the stack to escape the accelerating commoditization of data center infrastructure, software providers like Zenoss are coming under increased pressure to differentiate against the fast-multiplying competition. The unified monitoring provider announced this week that …
Converged network management, power boosts for NetApp’s latest storage suite
Not to be left in the dust amid the growing adoption of flash storage in the enterprise, NetApp is rolling out a new high-performance system designed to power the most resource-intensive of workloads while giving IT organizations the freedom to tailor their …
Joining forces for predictive visualization : Two east coast firms take on Big Data
Datawatch and Quant5, two Massachusetts firms working to capitalize on the business world’s growing appetite for analytics, are combining their resources in a joint effort to level the playing field against their rivals. For a publicly-traded vendor that counts 496 of the …
Where networking fits into the hyperscale puzzle | #CubeConversations
The technologies pioneered by the world’s largest Internet companies to create so-called hyperscale environments that can cost-effectively keep up with the data explosion are trickling down into the traditional enterprise as the increasingly intertwined open-source and vendor communities work to lower barriers …
Enterprise flash market sees first billion-dollar exit : SanDisk gobbles up Fusion-io
SanDisk is buying Fusion-io in a bid to capitalize on increasing demand for solid-state memory in the enterprise space, which is seeing rapid volume growth and higher margins than its core consumer products. That combination offers escape from the accelerating commoditization that threatens the Milpitas, California-based company’s …
What you missed in Cloud : Tiptoeing around the race to zero
Vendors are coming up with new and creative ways to avoid being sucked into the price war raging among Amazon, Google and Microsoft in the infrastructure-as-a-service market. IBM, for its part, is simply steering clear of the pay-as-you-go model and sticking with …
Infosys’ new CEO hire marks shift to higher margin software products
In conjunction with a rekindling of rumors that celebrated Cisco boss John Chambers may soon step down, Infosys has named Dr. Vishal Sikka as its first outside chief executive. The historic appointment comes just over a month after the veteran technology and …
The insider perspective on EMC’s data protection-as-a-service pivot | #EMCworld
It’s sometimes hard for a company the size of EMC to keep up with its smaller and nimbler startup rivals amid the accelerating pace of technological change, but the challenge is worth it, according to the storage stalwart’s head of data protection …