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Where some see cloud, Equinix sees “interconnections”
Today’s cloud infrastructure services work pretty much the same way that corporate data centers have worked since the 1960s: Large, centralized server farms deliver information over far-flung networks. But Equinix, Inc. believes it’s come up with a better way to support the exploding amount of data and processing coming from the cloud, while delivering faster ...
ClearSky seeks to erase lines between cloud and local storage
Network latency and unpredictable performance have made cloud storage mostly the domain of cloud-native applications or file stores, but ClearSky Data, Inc. wants to make the cloud as fast and manageable as a local disk array. The company today is launching a global storage network that combines co-located equipment, private networks and proprietary software to ...
Dell goes after midsize companies with hyper-scale needs
Hoping to replicate the success of its Data Center Solutions division, which sells hardware and software to the biggest hyper-scale customers, Dell, Inc. has created the Datacenter Scalable Solutions (DSS) group to go after second-tier companies whose computing demands aren’t quite as big, but which are rapidly growing their IT investments in areas like web ...
Maritz relinquishes CEO role as Pivotal run rate tops $100M
Paul Maritz (right), who is best known as one of the top executives at Microsoft during the peak of its market dominance, but who has more recently been a critical figure in the development of the EMC Federation, said he will step down as CEO of Pivotal Software, Inc. but remain on Pivotal’s board of ...
VMware exec counters critics, says vCloud Air growing rapidly
VMware, Inc. has said it wants to be a major provider of public cloud services, but its execution strategy around its vCloud Air offering has drawn a fair amount of criticism. Two years into deployment, revenues from hybrid cloud and SaaS offerings (of which vCloud Air is a key component) were better than six percent of VMware’s ...
Ask a Wikibon analyst: Why should I care about PaaS?
If you’re wondering what platform-as-a-service (PaaS) is and whether you should worry about it, Brian Gracely says you’re already behind the curve. Gracely, who began contributing to the Wikibon community last month after a long and successful career at multiple vendors and cloud providers, thinks software development will need to become a core competency for ...
Enterprise flash maker Pure Storage files for IPO
In the first of what could be a wave of initial public offerings following the biggest technology bubble in 15 years, flash-storage maker Pure Storage, Inc. filed to go public in a market that delivered questionable returns for other so-called “unicorns.” Pure, which last year raised $225 million on a valuation $3 billion, said it ...
HotLink unites cloud management under vCenter
With VMware, Inc.’s Vsphere owning more than half of the on-premise virtualization market, the people at HotLink Corp. have a simple proposition: Why not use VMware’s VCenter console to manage an entire hybrid cloud ecosystem? The company today is rolling out a cloud management platform that promises to unite management of major public and private ...
Users look for HP to fill gaps in its Big Data pipeline | #HPBigData2015
As Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Big Data Conference 2015 kicks off this week in Boston, customers will be looking for evidence that the hardware giant is evolving its strategy in software and can be a strategic supplier for Big Data and analytics initiatives. To do so, say Wikibon analysts, it needs to fill gaps in the platform ...
Fighting fire with fire: Anonymous security net targets enterprises
Paul Kurtz believes US enterprises have a fundamental disadvantage in fighting cyber attacks: The bad guys are cooperating with each other while the good guys work alone. Concerns about government regulation, bad publicity and intellectual property theft prevent organizations from telling anyone outside their four walls about security threats they face, said Kurtz (right), former ...
