Public Cloud In, Virtualization Out by 2019
Enterprises are leaving behind virtualization and rapidly advancing toward internal and hosted private clouds as organizations drive toward more innovation, more efficient infrastructures, and more business-oriented IT departments. By ...Full Article
IBM to Invest $3B to Bring IoT to the Enterprise
The money keeps pouring into the thing called the Internet of Things. IBM joined a growing list of technology giants this week in announcing plans to invest $3 billion ...Full Article
Intel-Altera Deal Would Boost IoT Efforts
If, as reported over the weekend, Intel Corp. moves to acquire programmable logic and embedded processor specialist Altera Corp., industry watchers predict it would boost the world's largest chip ...Full Article
Flash Memory Goes 3D
As traditional NAND flash storage technology approaches the end of the line, chipmakers Intel Corp. and Micron Technology jointly began investigating new approaches to cell design that could be ...Full Article
Startup Hedvig Emerges With Storage Platform
Hedvig Inc., a software-defined storage startup emerging from stealth mode this week after three years of development, is rolling out a distributed storage platform it touts as helping enterprises ...Full Article
Google Splits Difference with Nearline Storage
Google Cloud Platform's new archival storage offering called Nearline appears to target the same "cold storage" market eyed when Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched a similar service called Glacier ...Full Article
Quanta Cloud Raises Server Ante with GPUs
Quanta Cloud Technology, the server and storage unit of the Taiwanese manufacturer Quanta Computer, has over the last year been targeting the high end of the enterprise datacenter market. ...Full Article
Startup Qumulo Bets Data Trumps Storage
A month after announcing a $40 million funding round, scale-out intelligent storage startup Qumulo Inc. has emerged from stealth mode with a "data-aware" network-attached storage offering dubbed Qumulo Core. ...Full Article
Facebook Targets Datacenter with Server SoC
Facebook used this week's Open Compute Project summit to introduce a system-on-a-chip targeting the emerging micro-server market. Code-named "Yosemite," the "server-class" SoC was developed along with Intel Corp. as ...Full Article
Startup Vapor I/O Debuts Hyper-Converged Datacenter
Startup Vapor I/O emerged from stealth mode this week with its vision of a hyper-collapsed datacenter that seeks to add intelligence to the equation by including workloads "as a ...Full Article