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With Neoverse, Arm aims to expand chip reach from edge devices to data centers

Robert Hof — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 18:00:16 +0000

Arm Holdings Ltd., whose computer chip designs are best known for powering consumer devices from smartphones and smartwatches to televisions and printers, has been worming its way into data center equipment such as network switches and computer servers for years. Now, it’s getting serious. Today at its TechCon conference in San Jose, California, the British semiconductor […]

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With major new platform release, Splunk doubles down on AI and containers

Maria Deutscher — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 14:30:49 +0000

Splunk Inc. kicked off its .conf 2018 conference today with the introduction of numerous new features, plus a few upcoming ones, that aim to bring analytics projects into the age of artificial intelligence and software containers. The capabilities are rolling out for the company’s flagship machine data processing platform. They’ll become available in both the on-premises Splunk Enterprise and the […]

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Mesosphere says Kubernetes adoption is driving hybrid cloud shift

Mike Wheatley — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 03:27:14 +0000

One in four companies now relies on multiple cloud providers, up 50 percent from two years ago. That’s according to Mesosphere Inc.‘s latest survey published Tuesday on the state of the cloud-native and Kubernetes ecosystems. The company, which sells a data center operating system based on Apache Mesos, said this shift to the cloud is reflected in enterprises’ growing […]

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At Ignite 2018, Microsoft expands enterprise vision with new AI and data services

Maria Deutscher — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 17:55:25 +0000

Hoping to cement its position with enterprise developers and information technology staff as it expands into the cloud, Microsoft Corp. today unleashed a torrent of new products and features at its Ignite 2018 conference in Florida. In conjunction with Chief Executive Satya Nadella’s opening keynote this morning, the company unveiled dozens of updates spanning just […]

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Dell said to explore traditional IPO as investors resist VMware stock buyback plan

Mike Wheatley — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 01:02:57 +0000

Dell Technologies Inc.’s messy road to becoming a publicly traded company again has taken yet another twist with the news it’s planning to interview several banks to underwrite a possible initial public offering, according to reports by Reuters and The Wall Street Journal. The interviews mean Dell is postponing a roadshow scheduled for this week […]

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Red Hat stock drops after miss on revenue targets and guidance

Mike Wheatley — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 01:26:41 +0000

Updated: Red Hat Inc. endured a miserable after-hours trading session that saw its stock fall as much as 7 percent following a poor second quarter that saw it miss revenue targets and deliver guidance below forecasts. The company, which sells support for an array of open-source software and services for enterprises, reported earnings before certain […]

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Google rolls out more cloud platform updates at Tokyo Next conference

Mike Wheatley — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 00:00:27 +0000

Google LLC is taking the opportunity to beef up its Google Cloud Platform as it visits Japan for its Cloud Next Tokyo ’18 conference. The company made a raft of announcements early Thursday in Tokyo, including general availability of its Cloud Memorystore for Redis, new tools for developers, a vulnerability scanning feature for its Container […]

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Former Intel president’s startup Ampere launches new chips to shake up the server market

Maria Deutscher — Tue, 18 Sep 2018 17:35:33 +0000

Former Intel Corp. President Renee James is challenging her old company’s long-held leadership position in the data center. Her startup, Ampere Computing Inc., today launched two server processors that the company promises will one-up Intel in the efficiency department. The chips ship under the brand eMag and are based on designs from ARM Holdings, whose […]

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NetApp buys Kubernetes startup StackPointCloud to strengthen cloud portfolio

Maria Deutscher — Tue, 18 Sep 2018 16:08:00 +0000

NetApp Inc. today announced that it has acquired StackPointCloud Inc., a Seattle-based startup focused on making Kubernetes easier to use. Kubernetes is the go-to framework for managing software container clusters. The system has emerged as an essential component of modern cloud environments with the rise in container adoption among enterprises. Companies use containers to deploy applications […]

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Lenovo’s deal with NetApp follows a familiar pattern

Mark Albertson — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 18:00:17 +0000

When Lenovo Group Ltd. acquired the personal computer business from IBM Corp. in 2004, some skeptics questioned the venture’s future success. Yet the company managed to expand the business to a position as the world’s largest supplier of PCs by 2013. Lenovo is at it again. On Thursday, the company announced plans to partner with NetApp Inc. in launching a […]

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NetApp partners with Lenovo on new products and joint venture in China

Mike Wheatley — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 12:00:58 +0000

Data storage company NetApp Inc. is plotting an expansion into China by teaming up with Lenovo Group Holding Ltd. The companies today announced a new technology partnership and plans to create a joint venture company that will allow NetApp to sell its products and services to Chinese firms. The international technology partnership will see the companies collaborate […]

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In major new release, Rubrik gives its Datos IO platform the container treatment

Maria Deutscher — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 19:38:13 +0000

Data protection unicorn Rubrik Inc. today introduced a major new release of Datos IO, the backup platform that it acquired just six months ago to move into the lucrative NoSQL database market. Enterprises have in recent years significantly expanded their use of NoSQL databases to accommodate the rapid growth of unstructured information. Many of those […]

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Container monitoring and security firm Sysdig raises $68.5M round

Mike Wheatley — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 13:00:58 +0000

Container security startup Sysdig Inc. today announced a beefy $68.5 million late-stage round of funding that brings its total capital raised to $121.5 million. Insight Venture Partners led the Series D round, which also saw participation from previous investors, Bain Capital Ventures and Accel. Sysdig’s backers are betting on the company’s “unified approach” to container security, which […]

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Sumo Logic adds new tools to bring better security, analytics to IT operations

Maria Deutscher — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 13:00:50 +0000

Sumo Logic Inc. today unveiled new tools designed to give enterprises more insight into their infrastructure and how operational efficiency can be improved. The additions, which are rolling out for the startup’s flagship log analytics platform, span several aspects of information technology teams’ work. Chief among them is security. The update introduces a tool that can […]

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Hortonworks launches initiative to define unified hybrid cloud platform for big data

Paul Gillin — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 13:27:28 +0000

Saying the boundaries between cloud and on-premises computing have blurred to the point that distinctions are no longer meaningful, Hortonworks Inc. today is launching an initiative to define a single hybrid architecture for multicloud environments. The company will initially be joined in what it calls the Open Hybrid Architecture Initiative by IBM Corp. and Red […]

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Cisco joins the AI hardware fray with new deep learning server powered by 8 GPUs

Maria Deutscher — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 12:00:08 +0000

Cisco Systems Inc. today became the latest data center equipment maker to introduce a system optimized for artificial intelligence. The company has pulled back the curtains on the UCS C480 ML M5, a new four-rack-unit server specifically built to run processor-intensive deep learning workloads. The machine joins Cisco’s Unified Computing System family. UCS servers combine compute […]

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Dell earnings surge as company shakes off storage woes

Paul Gillin — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 14:37:22 +0000

Updated: Dell Technologies Inc. this morning reported strong revenue and earnings growth in its second quarter and raised forecasts for the full fiscal year, calming concerns that the integration of EMC Corp. was distracting the company from its core businesses. Double-digit revenue percentage growth across all of its key business segments and triple-digit growth in […]

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EBay revamps its data centers by building its own customized servers

Mike Wheatley — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 02:26:45 +0000

EBay Inc. has hit a significant milestone in its two-year effort to revamp its information technology infrastructure, announcing today that it has finished building its own custom-designed servers and will open-source the hardware designs by year-end. The company began its “replatforming” effort back in July 2016. The plan was to build its own hardware and artificial […]

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At VMworld, the multicloud turned mainstream

Betsy Amy-Vogt — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 17:05:48 +0000

Multicloud emerged into the mainstream at the recent VMworld conference in Las Vegas, while VMware Inc. solidified critical cloud partnerships, including one with Amazon Web Services Inc. that sees AWS bringing its relational database service to VMware. “With the multicloud world … we’re seeing a real cross-pollination,” said John Troyer (@jtroyer, pictured, left), chief reckoner at TechReckoning. “You can take […]

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Google infrastructure chief Urs Hölzle: This is the future of software and the cloud

Paul Gillin — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 00:32:36 +0000

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, […]

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Andy Bechtolsheim: The network may end up deciding who wins in the multicloud era

R. Danes — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 19:45:45 +0000

Loads of vendors see the enterprise train chugging toward multicloud in all its mismatched glory. Naturally, they want to sell customers the panacea that fits all those clouds onto a single pane of glass. It’s a lot harder then it sounds. In the end, their efforts may be hopelessly superficial. To compete in multicloud, they […]

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Here are the top VMworld 2018 takeaways from Wikibon’s analysts

James Kobielus — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 21:33:05 +0000

Enterprise data centers are on the move. They’re virtualizing into the multicloud, up the application stack into containerized and serverless environments, and all the way to the edge. This past week at its annual conference, VMware Inc. showed that it is well-positioned to dominate the software-defined data centers of enterprises the world over, or at […]

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Equinix delivers private connections to VMware Cloud on AWS

Mike Wheatley — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 03:43:27 +0000

Data center operator Equinix Inc. is teaming up with VMware Inc. to offer private connectivity through its global infrastructure to VMware Cloud on Amazon Web Services via AWS Direct Connect. With the offering, enterprises will be able to access VMware Cloud on AWS through a private connection that bypasses the public internet. The benefits of doing so […]

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At VMworld, VMware and Dell drive conversation on evolving virtualization from cloud to edge

James Kobielus — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 00:49:31 +0000

Cloud-based information technology virtualization was the focus of VMworld 2018 this week in Las Vegas, not to mention the talk of the entire conference. As the conference draws toward a close on Thursday, Wikibon looks back at the highlights from the dozens of on-camera executive interviews on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s livestreaming mobile studio. Here are excerpts of […]

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Inside Experian’s journey to the virtual data center

Paul Gillin — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 21:30:34 +0000

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 […]

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Blockchain-powered ‘Internet Computer’ startup Dfinity raises $102M

Maria Deutscher — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 19:25:03 +0000

A group of leading venture capital firms believes that Dfinity can make blockchain technology viable for large-scale computing applications. The Swiss startup today announced that it has raised a hefty $102 million financing round jointly led by Andreessen Horowitz and Polychain Capital, a prominent crytocurrency fund. They were joined by a half-dozen other institutional investors. […]

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How far can Dell ride VMware gravy train before crashing into the cloud?

R. Danes — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 16:29:01 +0000

VMware Inc. is making Dell Technologies Inc. fat and happy. The acquisition is paying off generously, generating 10 percent of Dell’s revenue and more than 50 percent of its free cash flow. But how long can Dell ride the gravy train, especially with some question marks remaining in VMware’s cloud journey? Without a doubt, founder and Chief […]

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On VMworld day two, VMware and Dell turn virtualization into tangible opportunities in edge computing

James Kobielus — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 13:59:09 +0000

Virtualization may feel like an abstract technological construct, but it’s coming closer to everything that touches our lives. This idea of virtual computing is transforming our organizations and shaping the edge, embedded, mobile and other tangible devices at the heart of our technological existence. Without hypervisors, containers and other virtualization technologies, the digitization of our […]

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Facebook hits its green energy goal for data centers a year ahead of schedule

Mike Wheatley — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 03:08:29 +0000

Embattled social media giant Facebook Inc. finally has some positive news to report. The company said Tuesday it has met its goal of using renewable energy sources to supply at least 50 percent of its data center energy a year ahead of schedule. The company, which has for months been beset with scandals centered on privacy […]

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HPE recovery continues with strong results in high-growth markets

Paul Gillin — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 22:47:11 +0000

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, […]

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