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IBM’s 2015 roadmap following a very uncertain path
One of the biggest stories last week was Cisco CEO John Chambers’ bold prediction of a dramatically changing IT landscape in the next few years. Speaking during his keynote address at the company’s annual summit, Chambers warned of a dire future for most IT firms: “You are going to see a brutal, brutal consolidation of ...
IBM gets ready to ditch NetApp for its own storage gear
IBM is about to end its partnership with NetApp in favor of selling its own gear, according to a report in Bloomberg this weekend. Citing “an internal memo”, Bloomberg says that Big Blue will quit reselling NetApp’s N-series network attached storage devices in favor of its own home-made gear. That would include its own v3500, ...
CoreOS lands inside Google’s Compute Engine
Google has just moved to make the lightweight Linux operating system CoreOS available on its main cloud platform, the Google Compute Engine. CoreOS is a relatively new operating system that’s designed to run on massive clusters of computers. The OS takes up just 168MB of RAM, around 50 percent less than most other Linux distros, ...
Oracle grabs vital FedRAMP certficate
US government agencies will find it much easier to buy cloud services from Oracle, after the database giant secured provisional authority to operate under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP). Provisional authority was granted on Thursday, almost 12 months to the day that cloud rival Amazon gained its own FedRAMP certification. Since then, ...
China to vet US-made hardware: Spy-infested kit not welcome
In what looks to be a tit-for-tat retaliation to the United States’ earlier ban on networking equipment from Huawei, China has announced a new vetting process for foreign hardware makers. The report came directly from the horse’s mouth, from the Xinhua news agency. Widely considered to be a mouthpiece for China’s communist party, Xinhua quotes ...
Will the Internet of Things be BlackBerry’s redemption?
BlackBerry is making a play for the Internet of Things with its new Project Ion, in the belief that it’s security expertise can help connect devices, sensors and everything else to the cloud in a secure fashion. Project Ion actually consists of a series of projects that BlackBerry hopes can promote the development of IoT. ...
Intel launches performance monitoring software for OpenStack
Intel has just launched a new suite of software for its Data Center Manager product family that offers fine-tuned server performance monitoring and management capabilities for environments built with OpenStack. The somewhat clumsily named Intel Datacenter Manager: Service Assurance Administrator (SAA) platform bids to entice more services into Software-defined infrastructure times while reducing the time ...
Lenovo kicks ass again: ‘We can grow no matter what’
China’s Lenovo has once again made a mockery of the supposed ‘dying PC market’ theory, recording double-digit sales and profit growth for both the last quarter and the year. The company’s seemingly unstoppable growth comes as its American rivals continue their mad scramble to try and offset declining PC sales with enterprise goodies and tablets/smartphones. ...
IBM adds Big Data analytics tools as a cloud service
So long as it’s software, it can be provided as a service. At least that’s what IBM seems to believe these days, hence its decision to announce cloud-based versions of IBM Concert, IBM Catalyst and OpenPages. The announcements were made at Vision 2014, a conference for finance, risk management, and sales compensation professionals held in ...
China sticks one up at Microsoft – BANS Windows 8 on all government PCs
China has just caused a bit of a crap storm with the rather stunning decision to ban Windows 8 from all government computers, according to reports in the country. The news comes from Reuters and China’s Xinhua news agency, and cites a statement on the Chinese Central Government Procurement Center’s website that says new PCs ...