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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 ...
Weekly Cloud Review: HP Moonshot, On-Demand and Xbox Stingray
This week HP introduced its first hyperscale server, Google and Amazon had major service updates, and a Microsoft insider leaked the existence of Xbox Stingray. Hewlett-Packard made a splash on Monday with the launch of Moonshot 1500, a solution that’s designed to serve as a building block for hyperscale environments. The server stands out thanks ...
OpenStack Grizzly? CIOs Should Be “A Little Cautious,” Says Analyst
The OpenStack ecosystem is growing at a very rapid pace, becoming increasingly fragmented as a result. Wikibon senior analyst Stu Miniman discussed how the OpenStack Foundation is addressing interoperability, and explained how this topic ties in with the recent release of Grizzly, on yesterday’s NewsDesk show with Kristin Feledy. Miniman says that one of the ...
Cisco Augments Fast Track Portfolio, Losses Networking Sales Chief
Cisco enhanced its converged infrastructure lineup with a set of new and enhanced solutions for Microsoft’s Fast Track 3.0 data warehousing reference architecture. The company also announced a series of joint, go-to-market initiatives for channel partners that resell both its networking equipment and Microsoft cloud technologies. Cisco integrated its Nexus 100V series switches with Windows ...
NetApp Expands FlexPod Lineup, Catches Oracle’s Attention
NetApp is bolstering its FlexPod portfolio, a set of cloud-in-a-box appliances that include homegrown storage technology and networking equipment from Cisco. This week the company announced 8 new reference architectures, including 4 that are specifically designed to run Oracle workloads. The new Oracle FlexPods include two bare-metal designs that run the database vendor’s Linux distribution. ...