Any deal by IBM to sell parts of its server business to Lenovo is likely to focus on low-end commodity x86 hardware, not higher-end x86 systems such as IBM's PureSystems and iDataPlex servers, an industry analyst said Thursday. IBM ...
HP can stake a bigger claim in the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market by creating an enterprise-friendly rival to Amazon's 'consumer' cloud, according to the head of the firm's Converged Cloud unit, Saar Gillai. HP is in the ...
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The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has approved CloudStack as a top-level project (TLP), helping the open-source cloud software effort further establish its independence from Citrix, which acquired the program's codebase in its 2011 ...
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Oracle this week announced that it is acquiring Nimbula, a provider of private cloud infrastructure management software with the intent of rounding out its software stack for building hybrid clouds. Based in Mountain View, California, ...
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Software AG said on Monday that the new Version 9.0 of its webMethods server suite will bring in-memory capabilities to the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). The announcement was made ahead of the CeBit trade show, at an international press ...
Already a platinum member of the cloud operating system platform OpenStack, IBM officials said open source code from the project will be the foundation of the company’s cloud strategy moving forward, including a new product it ...
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According to research firm Gartner, the Middle East and Africa IT infrastructure market is set to reach $3.9 billion in 2013, marking a four percent increase from 2012. The market is up made up of servers, storage and networking ...
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IBM's Watson supercomputer outperformed humans in the televised game show "Jeopardy." Now the company is moving some of its underlying technologies from the supercomputer into new entry-level servers. The company's new Power Express ...
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Private clouds are now a better option for secure and manageable data retention than in-house storage. That's according to Jayson Dudley, group insfrastructure manager at accountancy firm Mazars. "It seems a mismatch in someone's ...
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Could a return to an integrated technology 'stack' turn out to be the perfect way to build and grow private clouds for the enterprise? HP thinks so - and has some strong arguments to back up its claims, too. CBR reports. In April last ...
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Appearing to further distance itself from VCE coalition partners EMC and VMware, Cisco this week expanded collaboration with storage titan NetApp to deepen integration and market reach. Cisco and NetApp, a storage rival of EMC's, are ...
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Banking on the trend toward cloud computing, Hewlett-Packard has created a stand-alone organization to oversee the company's hosted computing services and software offerings. Saar Gillai will oversee the new unit. Gillai, whose title is ...
Developers are finding that building applications in the cloud saves time, but concerns remain about security and uptime, according to a newly released study. Results of the biannual Evans Data Cloud Development Survey, conducted in ...
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Saar Gillai HP has created a new unit to oversee the company’s cloud services and software products, in apparent recognition of the trend toward cloud computing. The new unit, called the HP Converged Cloud unit, will be headed by ...
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Barclays will reduce its IT spending by billions of pounds through the development of its own cloud-based technology,The Sunday Times claims. The Sunday Times reported that the firm could reduce costs by 90 per cent but failed to cite any ...
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