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Dell EMC surpasses HPE in server revenue amid strong market growth
Computer server makers are enjoying the fruits of a very prosperous year, with both shipments and revenues growing nicely over the previous 12 months. Worldwide shipments of servers grew about 3 percent in 2017, while revenue was up more than 10 percent from 2016, according to Gartner Inc.’s latest figures released Thursday. Meanwhile, the last quarter ...
Ethernet switch and router sales see modest growth, but a big slowdown is coming
The global market for traditional data center network switches and routers pulled off modest growth in the last year, but the long-term picture for routers in particular looks bleak as data center operators and companies increasingly turn toward a software-defined future. Analyst firm International Data Corp.’s latest report on the networking gear, released Monday, shows that ...
Mesosphere DC/OS adds hybrid and multicloud management features
Container software company Mesosphere Inc. is adding new hybrid and multicloud management capabilities in an update to its popular DC/OS platform. DC/OS is a distributed operating system that’s used by developers to build and run data-intensive software container applications. Based on the open-source Apache Mesos project, DC/OS serves as a cluster manager and operating system that ...
Enterprises that move to the cloud to cut costs end up spending more, research finds
Enterprise adoption of cloud computing has created a paradox, according to one market researcher: Although companies move to the cloud to take advantage of lower costs, most of them end up spending more on their cloud infrastructures than they did with installations in their own data centers. 451 Research Inc. said Tuesday in its newly ...
Microsoft debuts services for migrating database workloads to Azure
Microsoft Corp. today announced a slew of new services and updates to its Azure public cloud platform designed to make it easier for users to migrate database workloads to its cloud data centers. Microsoft notes that such workloads tend to be mission-critical, which means customers can’t afford to take any risks when it comes to ...
Cisco expands its intent-based networking initiative into wide-area networks
Cisco Systems Inc. is expanding its intent-based networking initiative to wide-area networks, which are those spread over a large geographical area. The networking giant today launched two new software-defined WAN products based on its Meraki and Viptela technologies that are meant to analyze and predict application performance across these kinds of networks. The company said ...
VMware Cloud on AWS hits Europe with a deluge of new services
Virtualization software giant VMware Inc. today unveiled a flurry of new cloud services designed to improve its support for multicloud environments. The updates give customers the ability to choose the most suitable cloud environment for each of their workloads without increasing operational complexity, the company said. As well as expanding its cloud services, VMware said ...
Densify’s cloud optimization tool Cloe uses machine learning to cut costs
Cloud infrastructure optimization company Densify Monday announced a new artificial intelligence service that aims to reduce enterprises’ cloud costs to the absolute minimum. The new service is called the Cloud Learning Optimization Engine, or Cloe, and uses machine learning to analyze cloud workloads and determine their resource requirements and what actions users can take to save ...
Robin Systems updates its cloud platform for big data workloads
Container-based cloud infrastructure provider Robin Systems Inc. today added support for a variety of popular enterprise databases and applications to its platform. In addition, the company said its platform can now be deployed on Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud, in addition to Amazon Web Services and on-premises hardware. The Robin Cloud Platform is a kind of infrastructure ...
War games: Pentagon slashes Amazon partner’s $950M cloud computing contract
The Pentagon has reportedly slashed a contract worth almost $1 billion that was awarded last month to one of the partners of Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing unit. The Washington Post reported late Monday that the Pentagon has cut the value of the contract with REAN Cloud LLC from its original $950 million to just $65 million, while putting limits on ...
