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Author Archives: Timothy Prickett Morgan
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Switching Down, UCS Up in Latest Cisco Quarter
May 15th, 2014 Comments Off on Switching Down, UCS Up in Latest Cisco Quarter
The UCS converged systems business at Cisco Systems is beginning to find its natural level in the market, with slower growth that is nonetheless many times more than that of the systems market overall. And, as the financial results ...
Pure Storage 250 TB All-Flash Array Takes On Disks
May 15th, 2014 Comments Off on Pure Storage 250 TB All-Flash Array Takes On Disks
All-flash array upstart Pure Storage is revving up its machines to take on bigger storage jobs as well as pushing down into smaller sites with its fourth generation of products. The new FlashArray 400 series have been refreshed with ...
Microsoft Adds Beefy Compute, File Service To Azure
May 15th, 2014 Comments Off on Microsoft Adds Beefy Compute, File Service To Azure
It was a cloudy week for Microsoft at its annual TechEd shindig, which was held in Houston, Texas, this time around. The consistent theme of the announcements has been that Microsoft has the scale and tools that make Azure ...
OpenStack Dominated By Tire Kickers, Code Testers – For Now
May 14th, 2014 Comments Off on OpenStack Dominated By Tire Kickers, Code Testers – For Now
There is no question that OpenStack has momentum behind it and that organizations of all types and stripes are thinking about how they might deploy the open source tool as the main control plane for their infrastructure. OpenStack has ...
Enterprises Embrace Converged Systems
May 14th, 2014 Comments Off on Enterprises Embrace Converged Systems
The box counters at IDC are still working on a method to dice and slice how the market for converged systems is shaping up. Last year, as it was clear that machines that preconfigure servers, storage, networks, and management ...
Red Hat OpenStack 5.0 Mashes Up Icehouse And RHEL 7 Beta
May 13th, 2014 Comments Off on Red Hat OpenStack 5.0 Mashes Up Icehouse And RHEL 7 Beta
Everybody is trying to make money on the OpenStack wave and every day a new distribution seems to pop into existence. Linux enthusiasts are probably having flashbacks to the late 1990s and early 2000s when that open source operating ...
Red Hat Opens Up CloudForms Hybrid Cloud Manager
May 12th, 2014 Comments Off on Red Hat Opens Up CloudForms Hybrid Cloud Manager
The final big chunk of software that commercial Linux juggernaut and virtualization and cloud player Red Hat has not yet open sourced after making a big acquisition has been set free. At the OpenStack Summit 2014 event in Atlanta, ...
OpenStack Cloud Rebels To Mimic Linux Strategy
May 12th, 2014 Comments Off on OpenStack Cloud Rebels To Mimic Linux Strategy
OpenStack is up against some pretty big odds, taking on the likes of Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft to determine the future of cloud computing. And it thinks of itself as the Rebel Alliance up against the Death ...
Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Is About More Than Being Hyper
May 12th, 2014 Comments Off on Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Is About More Than Being Hyper
The funny thing about the largest cloud computing providers is that they are all bragging about the scale at which they can provide compute, storage, and networking capacity. But none of them want to reveal precisely how much capacity ...
Blue Cross Blue Shield Streamlines Networking, Virtualization
May 9th, 2014 (1)
You want your healthcare insurance provider to run a lean and mean IT shop, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama is always looking at new technologies to make its operations more efficient. The latest ones being adopted by ...