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VMware intros “Microvisors” in new container embrace | #VMworld 2015
VMware Inc. showed it’s deadly serious about containers during day one of VMworld yesterday, with the launch of two new technology previews that enterprises can use to build and run containerized applications. Containers are becoming increasingly popular among ‘hip’ enterprises as an alternative to virtualization, a technology VMware dominates, and one which has become almost ...
Gartner sees SaaS driving application software sales
Growth in the enterprise application software market is being driven by cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings, and will soon reach $150 billion in annual revenues, according to new research from Gartner Inc. The market watcher revealed its revenues forecast last Thursday, saying that application software sales would grow by 7.5 percent in 2015, before exceeding $200 ...
Lenovo to restructure mobile business around Motorola
It’s no secret that China’s Lenovo Group Ltd. has big ambitions to become a leader in mobile, as its done so in the PC business. But that didn’t stop eyebrows being raised when it made the decision to purchase Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc., the failing smartphone business owned by search engine giant Google, for a ...
Intel bets big on drones with $60 million Yuneec investment
Intel Corp. has made its biggest investment into drone technology yet, injecting more than $60 million into China’s Yuneec International as it looks for ways to compensate for the declining PC market. The two firms took the rather unusual step of producing a short video to explain the collaboration, saying that they’re going to work ...
Enterprise server market beats the odds to grow 6.1 percent
The enterprise server market has defied all the odds to grow by 6.1 percent in the second quarter of this year compared to the year before, according to International Data Corp. (IDC)’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Tracker for servers, ethernet switches and routers. Things are looking pretty rosy revenue-wise too, with total server sales of $13.48 ...
Here’s why your organization needs a Chief Data Officer
Organizations are more likely to achieve faster growth if they hire a Chief Data Officer (CDO), according to a new report from Forrester Research Inc. That was the conclusion of a survey of 3,005 business and technology decision-makers at companies with 100 or more employees in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, New Zealand, ...
Google ships out its Docker Container Engine into general availability
Google has made its Container Engine service for managing Docker containers on its cloud platform generally available. This means Google now considers the service production ready, and is backed by its 99.5% service-level agreement. As of today, organizations that wish to run Docker containers on Google’s cloud can manage and orchestrate their container clusters via ...
EMC loses another exec as Mark Thurmond heads to Qlik
The EMC Corp. Federation has been hit with yet another executive-level departure, with Mark Thurmond, who until this week was senior vice president of global sales for VCE, announcing that he’s left the company to take on a new role at visual analytics provider Qlik International AB. Thurmond will take over as the new executive ...
ClusterHQ delivers portable, container-level storage to Docker
ClusterHQ, the startup that’s driving development of the popular open-source Flocker container manager, has just announced new partnerships with ConvergeIO, Hedvig, Huawei, NetApp and Nexenta to provide enterprises with integrated solutions that simplify storage provisioning and data persistence for Docker volumes. ClusterHQ’s new partners have developed, or are in the process developing, new storage drivers ...
EMC’s executive exodus won’t rock the Federation boat, analysts say
EMC Corp’s executive exodus claimed its sixth and seventh victims this week, with the departure of VMware Inc. strategist Chuck Hollis closely followed by that of chief technology officer Ben Fathi. Other big names to depart the Federation in recent weeks include EMC’s chief strategy guy Jonathan Martin, who jumped ship to Pure Storage, and ...