VMware Bolsters Net Virtualization With Arkin Deal
Looking to bolster its network virtualization and security platform targeting software-defined datacenters, VMware said it is acquiring SDDC security and operations specialist Arkin Net to help extend its vRealize ...Full Article
HPE Rolls Docker-Ready Servers, Backs ‘Docker Datacenter’
Application container leader Docker's strategic alliance with Hewlett Packard Enterprise will deliver a new class of server that bundles the Docker Engine platform used to build and run containers. ...Full Article
Mesosphere Platform Adds Scheduler, Automation Tools
The Mesosphere, the datacenter operating system ecosystem formed by the company of the same name, continues to expand with the addition of a scheduler designed to determine whether workloads ...Full Article
Lenovo, Nutanix Team on Converged IT Platform
Looking to expand the market for its server and hyper-converged infrastructure offerings, Lenovo and virtualization and storage integration partner Nutanix rolled out a new series of appliances this week ...Full Article
Scale-Out Platform Emerges With Foxconn Backing
Chinese electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn is among the early investors in the enterprise infrastructure platform developer DriveScale Inc. Emerging from stealth mode this week, DriveScale Inc. announced a $15 ...Full Article
Google-Like IT Push Gets Google Backing
The scrappy startup CoreOs appears to be the application container platform of choice for delivering Google-like cloud infrastructure to enterprises. San Francisco-based CoreOS, developer of an application container platform ...Full Article
Hyperconverged Platforms Poised for Takeoff
It's all coming together in the datacenter, according to a new industry forecast detailing what it calls hyperconverged integrated systems, or HCIS. Market research Gartner Inc. predicts the booming ...Full Article
Alliance Coalesces Around Mesosphere Platform
The datacenter operating system movement continues to gather momentum with the announcement by Apache Mesos developer Mesosphere of a broad alliance backing the beta release of an all-encompassing platform ...Full Article
Puppet Pulls Strings on Expansion Plans, Makeover
IT automation specialist Puppet Labs is expanding its operations, launching the latest version of its flagship platform and shortening its name: Puppet Labs is now known simply as Puppet. ...Full Article
In OpenPOWER Play, IBM and Google Make Hyperscale Waves at Foundation Summit
OpenPOWER Foundation, the mostly IBM-driven effort to create an alternative architecture to Intel x86, took a major step forward today with the announcement of a joint effort by Google ...Full Article
