Compute
Crating All Of The Data That The Edge Creates
Edge computing can mean different things to different people, as is the case with any new phenomena in the IT sector. …
Store
Cloud
Cloud Provider Embraces NVMesh To Lower Storage Latencies
For the past several years, Teuto.net, a small public and private cloud provider in Germany, has used the open source Ceph software as the backbone of its storage infrastructure. …
Store
Thanks For The Memories
It is probably a myth that Bill Gates said “640 KB ought to be enough,” and whether or not he said it the truth is that it has never been enough. …
Compute
We Fight, Get Beat, Rise, And Fight Again
Hewlett Packard built up its conglomerate in the 2000s in good faith, trying to be a larger and more profitable supplier of IT products and services. …
Enterprise
Hitachi Pulls Itself Together In The Datacenter
Hitachi is a massive multi-national conglomerate that has more than 300,000 employees and 950 subsidiaries and a reach that extends into a wide array of industries, from aircraft and automotive systems to telecommunications, construction, defense and financial services. …
Compute
The Pantheon Of Services In Nutanix Acropolis
While there is a battle of sorts going on between hyperconverged architectures and disaggregated ones, it is probably safe to assume that at the scale that most enterprises run, they could care less about which one they choose so long as either architecture does what they need to support applications. …
Enterprise
Red Hat Gets Serious About Selling Open Source Storage
If there is one consistent complaint about open source software over the past three decades that it has been on the rise, it is that it is too difficult to integrate various components to solve a particular problem because the software is not really enterprise grade stuff. …
Compute
The Majority Of Systems Sold Are Converged, Maybe
In the early days of computing in the datacenter, vendors of systems pretty much owned their platforms, from the chip all the way up to the compiler. …
Enterprise
Vexata Has Its Own Twist On Scaling Flash Storage
When looking for all-flash storage arrays, there is no lack of options. …
Compute
VMware’s Platform Can Only Reflect The Enterprise Datacenter
When a company has 500,000 enterprise customers that are paying for perpetual licenses and support on systems software – this is an absolutely enormous base by corporate standards, and a retro licensing model straight from the 1980s and 1990s – what does it do for an encore? …