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Nutanix Bolsters Converged Lineup with New Appliances
Nutanix, a San Jose-based provider of hyperscale appliances, announced today two new solutions that “meet the cost, performance and scale requirements to run nearly any enterprise application.” The NX-1000 is an entry-level system designed for use in SMB and branch office environments. For $22,500, customers get a 2U box that supports both 1Gbps and 10 ...
HP. Workday. Amazon. Open Source. | Marketing Momentum Gone Wrong
Hewlett-Packard made a big fuss about its public cloud service at last week’s HP Discover event in Las Vegas: Bill Veght, the company’s software chief, boasted that HR SaaS provider Workday abandoned Amazon Web Services (AWS) in favor of HP Public Cloud. The revelation drew a lot of positive attention to Hewlett-Packard’s OpenStack-based PaaS offering, ...
Fusion-io’s Next Generation Flash Technology Pushes the Envelope Amid Stiff Competition
Fusion-io will roll out the next iteration of its multi-layer cell (MLC) technology later this year, according to chief financial officer Dennis Woolf. The executive indicated that new PCIe cards sporting the technology will be introduced in the third quarter of 2013. As of today Fusion-io’s MLC lineup utilizes 2X architecture, which refers to a ...
Cisco Live Preview: Flash and Analytics
Vendors are stirring up buzz around their new products ahead of the upcoming Cisco Live 2013 event in Orlando, Florida. The conference will take place from Sunday, June 23 to Thursday, July 24. One of the firms that has already announced its participation is Tegile Systems, a Newark, California-based provider of hybrid storage systems. The ...
QLogic Lures Partners into Offering FabricCache with New Channel Incentives
When QLogic unveiled its Mt. Rainier-based solution in March this year, Stu Miniman forecasted that the company would pursue an aggressive partner strategy in order to make the solution more easily accessible to customers. His prediction just came true. This morning, QLogic announced that it is bolstering its Advanced Solutions Partner (ASP) program with new ...
Broadcom Gets Better at Multitasking with Quad-Core Processor for Cheap Devices
Broadcom pulled back the curtains on an industry-first HSPA+ processor that touts an ARM-based, quad-core CPU and supports a wide variety of connectivity technologies. The company said that the chip is designed for use in “high-performance, entry-level smartphones” running Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. The Quad ARM Cortex A7 core processor leverages ARM’s Neon architecture to ...
Cisco Has a Plan to Boost Router Business by 25 Percent
Stephen Liu, the head of marketing for Cisco’s service provider business, believes that his company’s Carrier Routing System (CRS) lineup will hit the $10 billion revenue mark within the next two years. That’s quite the outlook when you consider that the vendor reported total sales of $12 billion last quarter. The CRS product family has ...
WANdisco Snaps Up Dev Site to Boost Open-Source Mojo
WANdisco announced that it has snagged TortoiseSVN.net, the website that hosts the open source Subversion client of the same name. According to the company, this domain attracts 500,000 unique visitors each month and supports over five million downloads each year. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but WANDisco revealed that lead developer Stefan Küng ...
Why HP Wants to Grow its Stake in the Cloud
Hewlett-Packard hopes to penetrate the hyperscale market with Moonshot, an ultra-efficient box built to power the services of cloud providers and web-scale technology firms. The company got a step closer to realizing its ambitions last week, when it pulled the curtains back on Cloud OS. The OpenStack-based solution is pegged as a private cloud platform ...
HP Discover Infographic: Big Data is About to Get a Lot Bigger
Researchers estimate that 90 percent of the data in the world will be unstructured by 2015, the year when the digital universe is expected to hit the eight zettabytes mark. This projection reflects an unprecedented increase in data volumes: the Internet amounted to 2.7 zettabytes in 2012 and 1.4 zettabytes the year before. With these ...