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Measure your cloud mojo: 7 steps to cloud success
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Nimble Storage gets $40M as IPO approaches
Updated: Flash-based storage provider Nimble Storage has closed a $40.7 million mezzanine round months ahead of schedule, as investors are lining up to get a piece of the next big storage initial...
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Continuous delivery and the world of devops
Thanks to the rise of online business, companies must now get their products and services to market as fast as they can, and releases that occur in periods of months or years are no longer competitive....
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Cloud and data third-quarter 2012
Related research and analysis from GigaOM Pro:Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial.Takeaways from the second quarter in cloud and dataCloud computing infrastructure: 2012 and beyondAmazon’s...
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Software-defined networks: All about the application
When companies think about a move toward software-defined networks, they’re really thinking about how to build a “meta operating system” that brings intelligence to their applications. According to...
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Observing the software-defined network in the wild
Software defined networks may not be as commonplace as their virtualized computing and storage brethren, but they’re out there in there in the field. On Tuesday at GigaOM’s Structure Europe conference....
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WAN design for the cloud age
Related research and analysis from GigaOM Pro:Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial.The promise of SDNs in the enterpriseIT spending update, fourth quarter 2012The Structure 50: The Top 50...
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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 Partners, where he’ll be managing director. Herrod had been with VMware since since 2001 and oversaw — from a...
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OpenNebula open-sources service management layer with enterprise in mind
OpenNebula, the European answer to the likes of Eucalyptus and OpenStack that counts CERN and China Mobile among its customers, is moving to differentiate itself from competitors by freely releasing...
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Red Hat open sources its take on Hadoop storage
Red Hat is getting into the big data act more deeply, announcing on Wednesday that it’s open sourcing its Red Hat Storage Hadoop plugin as an alternative to the Hadoop Distributed File System. The...
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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
The newest version of the Xen hypervisor will support servers that use ARM-based chips, according to a Tuesday announcement from the Linux Foundation. This is a big deal in bringing ARM-based servers...
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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?
The internet giants may be on the forefront of green innovation compared to behemoths in other industries like manufacturing. But what’s their motivation? GigaOM’s Katie Fehrenbacher put that question...
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Forecast: sizing the software-defined networking market
There is no question that the software-defined networking (SDN) arena is a hotbed of new ideas, well-funded startups, and established vendor SDN architectures. However, there is a significant question...
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IT 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.Related...
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Faster feature rollouts and fewer house calls: Why Telefonica is virtualizing...
The set-top boxes in our homes, the gateways for our broadband connections, are fairly complex pieces of equipment — too complex, some operators might argue. According to a train of thought in the...
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The sorry state of server utilization and the impending post-hypervisor era
Want to know a deep dark secret in the enterprise? Despite the widespread use of server virtualization, hardware resources in the data center are today tremendously underutilized. When I first...
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