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We’ve Hit a Scale-Out Flashpoint in the Datacenter : An Industry First, Thanks to Open Source
SiliconAngle founding CEO John Furrier and co-host Jeff Frick brought us up to speed on the OpenStack Summit and the state of the cloud in a Monday introductory segment, courtesy of the theCube. Frick starts the discussion by noting that while OpenStack has come a long way since the first Summit in 2008, the technology ...
Nimble + Cisco Play Into Microsoft’s Vision of the Cloud : Unveils Fast Track Reference Architecture
Nimble Storage, a provider of flash-optimized storage solutions, has released new private cloud reference architecture for Microsoft customers. The Nimble Storage SmartStack for Private Cloud with Cisco consists of three-rack unit (3U) Nimble Storage CS200 Series, a midmarket hybrid storage array that’s optimized to run Microsoft solutions, and compute from Cisco. The configuration can include ...
OpenStack Summit Highlights: HP Support, Third Party Solutions Gain Traction
Data center vendors are making the most out of the fifth annual OpenStack Summit, being held in Portland, Oregon this week. Hewlett-Packard, VMware and Hortonworks are among the many firms that already made headlines at this year’s conference. Here’s a quick recap of today’s highlights: HP announced that it has made a significant portion of its converged ...
Why IBM Spent $1 Billion on Flash? Supercharged Analytics
Last week, IBM introduced a new flash appliance and announced that it will invest one billion dollars in flash memory R&D. It’s a big commitment for a technology that’s making waves in the datacenter, enabling countless configurations and new options in scalability. Wikibon co-founder and chief analyst Dave Vellante attended the company’s media event in ...
Pica8 Pulls the Covers Off New SDN Framework
Pica8 just announced a new software-defined networking solution for cloud service providers, the Pica8 Open Data Center Framework. The Palo Alto-based startup pegs its latest offering as a suite of “essential building blocks” for programmable center networks – it features support for OpenFlow 1.2 and Open vSwitch. “For many, utilizing SDN in their data center ...
Red Hat Steals the Show at OpenStack Summit, Approves $300M Buyback Program
Red Hat’s been busy today, dominating hashtag streams related to the OpenStack Summit, an annual event taking place in Portland this week. Most recently, the company’s board of directors authorized $300 million in common stock repurchases “from time to time on the open market or in privately negotiated transaction”. This new program replaces the previous ...
AWS to Reach $10 Billion by 2016, If Rivals Don’t Stop Progress
RW Baird & Coforecasts that Amazon’s cloud business will generate $10 billion in revenueby 2016. The wealth management firm credits this growth to an increase in enterprise demand for cloud solutions: the top 10 cloud providers in the market grew 37 percent in 2012, while the top ten system integrators only grew by two percent ...
Day One Highlights from OpenStack Summit 2013
A slew of product announcements marked the beginning of the annual OpenStack Summit in Portland, a four-day geek fest that kicked off this morning. Red Hat entered the fray with the launch of RDO, an open-source distribution of OpenStack that’s optimized to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora, the de facto community edition of ...
IaaS a Golden Goose for Amazon in the Enterprise? Pricing Wars Live On
The infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) space is heating up now that Amazon is venturing into the enterprise, and the competition is firing back. IaaS is a particularly pert topic for us this week as we broadcast live from the OpenStack Summit, in Portland, Oregon. As Rackspace and Amazon battle for the enterprise space, OpenStack could play a ...
Big Data Review: Storage, Security and On-Demand Analytics
This week Dataguise rolled out new data protection software for Hadoop clusters, a couple of storage firms unveiled their Big Data new products, and Amazon made its Elastic MapReduce service available for government agencies. In addition, Oracle announced two appliances that ship with Cloudera’s Hadoop distribution. Monday featured news from a Big Data security firm ...