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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
IBM celebrates System/360 50th anniversary with Hadoop + cloud + mobile offerings for System z
Fifty years after the original System/360 revolutionized business computing, big iron remains a fixture at most enterprises, with much of the world’s mission-critical data still stored on mainframes for security reasons. But having a tight perimeter is a double edged sword, since …
VCE instrumental in transforming the software-defined data center concept into reality
VCE has come a long way in a short time, surpassing $1 billion in annual sales less than six years after its launch on the back of rapidly growing demand for simplicity and full-stack integration. It’s the combination of EMC, VMware and …
Red Hat lets customers move Linux subs to Google Compute Engine
There are a number of reasons for using public cloud services, including rapid access to technology resources and the ability to reduce overhead costs associated with maintaining on-premise infrastructure. But despite the low barrier to entry afforded by the pay-as-you-go model, the …
SAP completes another leg of cloud journey with Business Suite subscription debut
SAP is making its flagship Business Suite available as a service in an effort to pave a migration path to the public cloud for organizations with existing on-premise deployments of its software. The business intelligence giant didn’t specify when the new offering …
Teradata puts the logical data warehouse puzzle together with new product releases
Teradata hopes to deliver the elusive promise of the logical data warehouse with a new version of its flagship platform that extends into the Internet of Things and provides a single point of access for the entire enterprise analytics stack. Teradata Database …