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Partnerships, new releases show Red Hat’s focus on shared data context in an agile infrastructure
Less than a year ago, Red Hat Inc. announced Ceph, a major upgrade to its scalable, software-defined object storage platform, following up with news in May that the open-source software provider would combine the latest release with OpenStack Platform 13. The news was significant because it represented Red Hat’s response to what it had been discussing with customers seeking to deploy ...
Largest Hadoop players adapt business models to hybrid cloud
When Hadoop made its entry into the big data picture 13 years ago, it offered a necessary platform for big data management while the cloud was still a mere speck on the enterprise horizon. Now, the largest three Hadoop players — Cloudera Inc., Hortonworks Inc. and MapR Technologies Inc. — have big data workloads running ...
Fortinet offers new control and access response tool as use of IoT devices expands
Responding to continued vulnerability of systems to security threats as more internet of things devices attach to networks, information technology security company Fortinet Inc. has introduced a new network access control solution to enable visibility at scale across multi-vendor environments. FortiNAC is a next step following the acquisition of Bradford Networks Inc. in June and is ...
CloudEndure delivers live migration and disaster recovery through a single toolset
When VMware Inc. made headline news last week with the announcement that it would launch its cloud service on Amazon Web Services Inc., a number of companies began scrambling to see how they might fit into the new picture. That wasn’t necessary for CloudEndure Ltd. because it already had a seat at the VMware table. ...
Dell’s PowerEdge MX and VxRail lay groundwork for software-defined infrastructure
When Dell EMC rolled out its PowerEdge 14G server line last year, the company emphasized features such as automated server setup, security, and faster hyperscale workload performance in anticipation that the software-defined infrastructure would become a key element for enterprise data centers. One year later, prior to VMworld last week, Dell EMC announced its PowerEdge ...
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Life on the edge: Michael Dell has made a career out of ignoring the obvious
Over Labor Day weekend, the Dell Technologies Championship golf tournament in Boston made headlines as Tiger Woods played in contention throughout the event. Faced with a chance to close within two shots of the lead midway through Monday’s final round, Woods left a putt right on the edge of the cup and failed to win. ...
Cisco’s CloudCenter geared to support businesses on multicloud journey
As more enterprises move workloads into multiple clouds, the need to manage that infrastructure has become greater. To meet this demand, Cisco Systems Inc. has created CloudCenter, a multicloud management tool designed to provide preconfigured integration capabilities for a number of cloud platforms. “CloudCenter manages over 15 clouds today,” said Zach Kielich (pictured, right), senior ...
Sun Microsystems co-founder and early Google investor is all-in on VMware NSX
Being first to market often has benefits, and it can take a special kind of vision to be the initial investor before others join the bandwagon. Which is why when Andy Bechtolsheim (pictured), founder, chief development officer and chairman of Arista Networks Inc., gets excited about an evolving technology, it’s probably a good time to ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE FUTURE OF THE DATA CENTER
Surprising database news brings AWS and VMware partnership into sharper focus
Going into VMworld 2018 in Las Vegas this week, industry analysts were wondering how VMware Inc. would expand its cloud partnership with Amazon Web Services Inc., jointly announced a year ago. They didn’t have to wait long. On Monday, AWS revealed that it would bring its Relational Database Service, or RDS, to VMware. “This is ...
The sophisticated algorithms behind peer-to-peer money lending
Out of meltdown comes opportunity. In the aftermath of the financial crisis that gripped the world a decade ago, one of the outcomes was that banks began to dictate strict limits on consumer loans and obtaining funds became about as easy as finding a taxi in rush hour during a downpour. Enter peer-to-peer lending. As the ...
