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SPECIAL REPORT: THE FUTURE OF THE DATA CENTER
Google infrastructure chief Urs Hölzle: This is the future of software and the cloud
Urs Hölzle knows a thing or two about the rapid evolution of data centers and the infrastructure behind them. As a Google Fellow and senior vice president of technical infrastructure, he has helped define that evolution over the past couple of decades as the search and ad giant built its own industry-leading global infrastructure. Now, ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE FUTURE OF THE DATA CENTER
Inside Experian’s journey to the virtual data center
Credit reporting giant Experian Corp. is in the process of moving most of its data processing outside the four walls of the data center. In a recent conversation, Experian Chief Information Officer Barry Libenson explained the reasoning and the payoff. This is an edited version of the interview. For more on the journey Experian and ...
HPE recovery continues with strong results in high-growth markets
Things are up and to the right again at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. as the big computing vendor reported fiscal third-quarter results that easily beat analyst estimates and its own forecasts. Net revenue rose 4 percent, to $7.8 billion, from the prior-year period, though up only 1 percent when adjusted for currency. HPE’s net profit, however, ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE FUTURE OF THE DATA CENTER
VMware doubles down on Windows 10 integration with spruced-up Workspace One endpoint manager
VMware Inc. has tightened integration with personal computers from its Dell Technologies Inc. corporate parent and boosted Windows 10 support in a new release Monday of its Workspace One endpoint management suite. Enhanced Windows 10 support is primarily in the area of security. It includes predictive patching of Windows 10 clients based upon operating system and ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE FUTURE OF THE DATA CENTER
The future of the data center: The walls come tumbling down
The developers at credit reporting giant Experian plc write code without any idea whether it will ultimately run inside the company’s data centers, a rented space known a colocation center, in the cloud — or all three. And that suits Chief Information Officer Barry Libenson just fine. Libenson, a veteran CIO who joined Experian three ...
VMware earnings again defy gravity, but its stock falls anyway
Continuing to defy predictions that its core computing virtualization product is headed for decline, VMware Inc. reported fiscal second-quarter earnings today that beat expectations for both revenue and earnings per share. The Palo Alto, California-based company also raised its third-quarter and full-year outlook, citing strong customer response to its partnerships with Amazon Web Services Inc. ...
Hortonworks boosts streaming data support with Kafka integration
Hortonworks Inc. today added improved support for Apache Kafka to its Hortonworks DataPlane Service, underlining the growing importance of streaming sources to its big-data customers. Launched about a year ago, DPS is a cloud offering for combining all types of data in multiple data lakes and other data repositories. It’s intended to make it easier ...
Pure Storage shares rocket 14% after solid earnings and first acquisition
Updated: Everything came together today for Pure Storage Inc. In its fiscal second quarter reported today, the maker of all-flash-memory storage devices said its customers’ accelerating move to flash storage combined with stabilization in component pricing helped the company beat its revenue and margin forecasts and raise its full-year guidance. Investors celebrated by bidding shares up ...
JetStream’s VMware-blessed data protection platform bypasses snapshots and agents
JetStream Software Inc. today debuted a continuous replication platform for the VMware Inc. vSphere virtualization environment, saying it’s the first data protection product of its kind to be endorsed by VMware. The company, which was founded by the same team that started FlashSoft Corp., an early maker of flash virtualization software, said JetStream Data Protection goes beyond ...
Postman drops license fees for small-team API development toolset
Postdot Technologies Inc., maker of the Postman application program interface development environment, is dropping license fees for many of its collaboration features, including teams, team workspaces and the development and debugging toolset. Previously, teams-related features were available exclusively to paying users of the company’s Pro and Enterprise plans, which start at $8 per user per ...