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...
View ArticleVMware 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...
View ArticleVMware: ‘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...
View ArticleVMware 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....
View ArticleVMware 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...
View ArticlePernixData 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...
View ArticleGoogle 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleWhat first-quarter 2014 meant for the mobile space
Some major acquisitions jolted the mobile industry in the first quarter of 2014, underscoring some important trends. Meanwhile, turbulence plagues the mobile-gaming industry and Dish is ramping up...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleThe 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, ©...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleSoftware 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...
View ArticleAn 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleMesosphere 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...
View ArticleRivals 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,...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleFaster 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...
View ArticleIT spending’s growth prospects for the rest of 2013
The second-quarter vendor financial reports disappointed once again but not by as much as in the first quarter of 2013. Optimists are still looking for a relatively robust second half of 2013. IT...
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