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Hewlett-Packard had approached the task of creating a cohesive brand for its cloud portfolio with the typical methodicalness of a corporate giant. Management had the sales organizations put together a list of some 6,000 candidate phrases and present them to the broader …
HP server bosses talk products and strategy | #HPdiscover
Hewlett-Packard Co. is expanding in all directions under the leadership of CEO Meg Whitman, from the OpenStack community through the bleeding edge of electronic component design to, most recently, the high-performance computing market. But amid its aggressive pursuit of new growth opportunities, …
Weekly Cloud review: From OpenStack to AWS
The last few days saw a string of major industry updates spanning the open-source private cloud all the way up to the proprietary public cloud. It was Red Hat that fired the opening shot with the launch of the latest version of …
What you missed in Big Data: the two-lane highway to the IoT
The task of taming the growing amounts of data pouring in from the connected universe starts with the devices themselves, or at least that’s the position of the Open Interconnect Consortium, a newly established industry group focused on harmonizing the way information …
Microsoft’s rekindled love-affair with hardware goes deeper with new arrays
Microsoft has stopped being just an operating system company a long time ago, adding a considerable number of notches to its belt of titles over the years: server virtualization vendor, cloud service provider, tablet maker and most recently enterprise storage supplier with …
Avere nabs $20M for the one storage system to unite them all
Extending on-premise storage infrastructure to the public cloud can potentially allow CIOs to have the best of both worlds: take advantage of the pay-as-you-go model to scale even the steepest of usage spikes on a budget, while still keep their most sensitive …
Tsunami of team ups reaffirms accelerating Hadoop maturity
The burgeoning Hadoop ecosystem looks to be continuing on its aggressive growth trajectory, garnering yet more momentum with a string of new and expanded strategic partnerships marking the latest steps forward in the accelerating trend towards consolidation that Wikibon had identified back …
Splunk brings machine data analytics to mobile with iOS app
The explosion of information coming from connected devices is dominating the analytics discussion today, but in all the talk about exploiting machine-generated transmissions, surprisingly little attention is being given to the growing amount of data getting funneled back into the Internet of …
Here’s what Swift’s ‘most significant update’ brings to OpenStack
Building out a well-rounded storage stack that provides the advanced functionality enterprise customers expect and demand is a uniquely difficult undertaking that only a handful of large vendors have truly succeeded in tackling thus far. The task is made challenging by the …
Why Azure-in-a-box may be back on the table
Microsoft is reviving efforts to bring Azure down into the data center with an upcoming line of pre-configured appliances codenamed “San Diego”, Redmond news veteran Mary Jo Foley cited anonymous insiders as saying in a fresh report. If true, the software giant’s …