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Why the operating system still (kind of) matters
Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth has been beating the Linux drum for years — particularly around the Ubuntu distribution that Canonical develops and supports — but his message, and that of much of...
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What to consider when architecting your organization for the cloud
In practice, many organizations find that they are unable to leverage the benefits the cloud can bring because they are hampered by existing infrastructure and operational constraints. Table of...
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Network architect perceptions of SDN, cloud, and the future of networking
Many believe that significant changes in networking infrastructure will arrive in 2015 in the form of software-defined networking, but a recent Gigaom Research survey shows that a large portion are...
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SDN meets the real world: implementation benefits and challenges
For enterprise-IT practitioners and data-center operators, SDN delivers networking with the same level of flexibility and agility as virtualization has allowed them to deliver other parts of their...
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Automation is the key to saving cash in the cloud. But how to do it?
We’re a month out from our Structure conference, so we took the opportunity on this week’s Structure Show podcast to talk about one of the underlying themes of every Structure event: scalability. More...
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Why Google is sowing the seeds of container-based computing
When Google announced the Kubernetes Docker-management system on Tuesday, it wasn’t open sourcing its cloud computing “secret weapon” as much as it was open sourcing its viewpoint on how applications...
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Cisco buys Tail-f for $175M to build telecom networks in the cloud
A pattern seems to emerging in the telecom equipment world: Win a contract with AT&T and you’ll soon be acquired by Cisco Systems. In February, AT&T revealed its plans to reshape its mobile...
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Why the virtual desktop now matters to the enterprise
Amid a perfect storm of market drivers and use cases like the BYOD phenomenon and the emergence of cloud technologies, this year we have seen enterprises overcome the inertia to start the adoption of...
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CloudPhysics gets $15M to provide analytics for VMware users
Data analytics company CloudPhysics raised $15 million in a series C investment round, bringing the company’s total funding to $27.5 million. The company’s predictive analytics platform will supposedly...
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From Android Auto to OnLive: how video is becoming the secret glue of...
Here’s something you may not know about Android Auto, Google’s attempt to enter the automotive space: Cars compatible with Android Auto won’t actually run any Android apps, but instead simply play back...
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10 innovators changing the game for Internet infrastructure
The world of information technology is always changing, but in the last six years it has started to change more rapidly. We celebrate the people who are orchestrating this change. Here's ten innovators...
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How Bromium lets bad guys in and still keeps data safe
Forget the ideas of virtual desktops and desktop hypervisors to separate employees' work lives from their personal lives. Bromium, the latest company from Xen creators Simon Crosby and Ian Pratt,...
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VMware buys DynamicOps to manage Xen, AWS
VMware has acquired DynamicOps, a Burlington, Mass.-based cloud computing startup that spun out of banking giant Credit Suisse's IT department in 2008. VMware is touting DynamicOps ability to manage...
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Is VMware’s brain drain a sign of its influence, or of its demise?
The number of principal engineers and other technical leaders leaving the company and trying to have big impacts elsewhere suggests VMware might achieve mafia status a la Sun Microsystems, Facebook,...
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VMware, seeking scale, took its eye off the ball
As VMware CEO Paul Maritz launched a four-year acquisition spree that brought the virtualization kingpin into software development and end user applications where it competes with Microsoft and others,...
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Well played, EMC.
EMC might be smarter than we thought it was. If it handles the rumored spin-out and the Maritz-Gelsinger transition well, the companies under its banner could do great things. Of course, there are a...
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VMware to buy Nicira for $1.26B in a strategic leap of faith
VMware will spend $1.26 billion to buy software defined networking startup Nicira in a deal that shows how much VMware is counting on its vision of the software defined data center. This is a strategic...
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With Nicira buy, VMware claims cloud freedom of choice
VMware has made two big acquisitions this month, both focusing in part on the ability to work with competitive hypervisor and cloud computing software. The company seems to get that the future is in...
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Tintri gets $25M to tune flash storage for VMs
A Mountain View, Calif., storage startup called Tintri has raised $25 million for its virtualization-focused flash storage appliances. The appliances, called VMstore, mix hard-disk and solid-state...
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Nimble Storage gets $40M as IPO approaches
Flash storage startup Nimble Storage has raised another $40 million in preparation for an IPO within the next two years. The company, which builds appliances fusing both flash and hard disk drives, is...
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Software-defined networks: All about the application
Software-defined networks and data centers are the future if enterprises want to manage their infrastructure with the agility of cloud computing providers, but they're nowhere near ubiquity yet....
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Observing the software-defined network in the wild
Big Switch, Nicira and Schuberg Philis share their insights on software-defined networks--how they're being deployed today and how they will evolve to replace traditional infrastructure driven...
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WAN design for the cloud age
With current IT management dictating that more and more resources move from the local area network (LAN) to the wide area network (WAN), enterprise dependency on WAN is on the rise. This shift in WAN...
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VMware CTO Herrod leaves to join VC firm
VMware CTO Steve Herrod is leaving his post to join venture capital firm General Catalyst, where he'll be managing director. I think this is a big loss for VMware, which has already been hemorrhaging...
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OpenNebula open-sources service management layer with enterprise in mind
Partly to differentiate itself from the likes of OpenStack and Eucalyptus, and partly to boost enterprise adoption, OpenNebula is moving beyond its traditional business of infrastructure management....
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Red Hat open sources its take on Hadoop storage
Red Hat is the latest company offering an alternative to the Hadoop Distributed File System, only this one is open source and ties into Red Hat's bigger vision of hybrid cloud computing. Red Hat open...
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Getting your organization ready for SDN: Part 1
Today, functioning networks hide many faults. Software-defined networking (SDN) offers network operators a solution for poor traffic visibility and clumsy operational systems. A network actively,...
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ARM servers get a webscale win with Xen hypervisor support
Lower-power servers are a trend, and so is server virtualization. Hence the arrival of ARM support on the Xen hypervisor, which could be a boon for webscale players. ARM servers get a webscale win...
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What’s next in the world of software-defined networking
Software-defined networking (SDN) represents the next big wave of networking investment: $2.45 billion by 2018, according to GigaOM Research. ANd with standards still evolving, products still...
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How to cost-efficiently increase efficiency in the data center
Today’s data center managers must not only satisfy customer demands for around-the-clock availability from anywhere in the world; they must also contend with demands from within their own organizations...
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Key factors IT managers face when deploying SDN solutions
Many still have difficulty understanding how SDN technologies improve networking in the data center. The key is to develop clear business use cases and detailed training — crucial elements for future...
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Are internet companies easy targets for the green movement?
Internet giants' brands are much more vulnerable to attack from the environmental movement than other industries. That explains in part why many of them pursue green technologies. Are internet...
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Faster feature rollouts and fewer house calls: Why Telefonica is virtualizing...
The Spanish carrier group and the Japanese equipment maker NEC have begun a pilot program in Brazil, where many of the complex routing functions are being virtualized out of the set-top box and into...
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The sorry state of server utilization and the impending post-hypervisor era
Server virtualization was supposed to make utilization rates go up. But utilization is still low and solutions to solve that will change the way the data center operates. The sorry state of server...
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Rivals chip, chip, chip away at VMware hypervisor dominance
Some folks say hypervisors -- now a commodity -- don't matter any more. That's not true, and growing support for Hyper-V by third-party vendors spells trouble for VMware. Here's why Rivals chip, chip,...
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Mesosphere thinks everyone’s servers should run like Twitter’s do, and it’s...
Apache Mesos is the open source cluster-management software that automates operations at companies such as Twitter and Airbnb. Now, a startup called Mesosphere is building a business around taking it...
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The next big step for cellular networks isn’t 5G. It’s the cloud
At Mobile World Congress the mobile network will begin its long journey into cloud. It will take some time, but one day the key component of the mobile network could be the data center. The next big...
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An Intel-powered cellular network? It’s slowly starting to happen
Intel is seeking to make its processors a key component of mobile networks, and its influence is starting to be felt. At Mobile World Congress, Intel revealed its working with numerous carriers and...
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Software is eating the mobile network, too, as AT&T begins its journey into...
AT&T is taking the first steps toward transforming its network into a data center. It's not touching the cellular network -- at least not yet -- but it will start virtualizing its mobile core and...
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What communications service providers need to improve and transform their...
Network functions virtualization includes many technologies that will enable communications service providers to create more agile networks and reduce operating costs. What communications service...
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The operator’s view of SDN, NFV, and open source
Where are SDN and NFV today? And what influence will open systems and open source have on the future of SDN and NFV? The operator’s view of SDN, NFV, and open source originally published by Gigaom, ©...
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How OpenStack can become an enterprise reality.
Enterprise IT managers are watching the open-source cloud infrastructure project OpenStack with interest, hoping it might offer an easy way to begin exploiting the cloud alongside their existing IT...
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How to build a business-driven infrastructure for the software-defined...
Solutions in the application performance management market is deriving meaningful intelligence directly from the apps they monitor, intelligence that businesses can turn into actionable results that...
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Google wants to show the world how sexy cluster management really is
A partnership between Google and Mesosphere further's Google's strategy to sell the world on its way of automating applications and resources. Cluster management is important -- even sexy when wrapped...
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PernixData rakes in $35M to help companies virtualize their storage
The startup's take on software-defined storage allows users to partition high-speed storage into individual clusters that virtual machines can take advantage of. PernixData rakes in $35M to help...
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VMware plays nice with OpenStack, unveils a VMware-powered data-center-in-a-box
At VMworld, the virtualization giant will unveil new service that makes OpenStack more compatible with VMware tools and VMware-loaded data centers as well as a new appliance that will come stocked with...
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VMware jumps on the container bandwagon through deal with Docker, Google, and...
VMware said during VMworld 2014 that the virtualization giant is partnering up with Google, Docker and Pivotal on a project that will sow the seeds of using containers within the VMware environment....
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VMware: ‘The software-defined data center is coming’
VMware CTO Steve Herrod has a message for the IT world: "[S]pecialized software will replace specialized hardware throughout the data center." Via virtualizations and SDNs, software-defined data...
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VMware CEO: We want to make you technologically hip
The "Facebook generation," as VMware CEO Paul Martiz called it in a presentation Tuesday morning, is post-PC and post-paper, and they want to experience information within the context in which they're...
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VMware aims for Hadoop on VMs with ‘Serengeti’ project
VMware is launching a new open source project, called "Serengeti," that aims to let the Hadoop data-processing platform run on the virtualization leader's vSphere hypervisor. VMware apparently smells a...
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