Cloud Adoption Rises, Server Sales Flat
While global server shipments remained roughly flat during the second quarter, cloud services are expected to billow this year on the strength of growing infrastructure and application software services. ...Full Article
Latest DDN Launch Fills out its WOS Object Storage Line
DataDirect Networks (DDN) today introduced a third member to its WOS object storage product line, the WOS 8460, aimed at active archive and collaboration use cases. Object storage, once ...Full Article
SoftBank Invests in Bare Metal Cloud Startup
Japan's SoftBank Group Corp. continues to invest in enterprise infrastructure developers, leading an early funding round and forming a partnership with bare metal server automation startup Packet. The partners ...Full Article
Brocade ‘Data Center Router’ Aimed at Future Network Traffic
Brocade, the San Jose-based data and storage networking provider, today announced the SLX 9850 that the company bills as a data center routing solution designed to support exponential growth ...Full Article
OpenStack Readies Newton as Mitaka Releases Arrive
As more vendors unveil their enterprise-grade distributions of OpenStack Mitaka released in the spring, developers are already preparing the launch of the new OpenStack upgrade dubbed Newton. Several vendors ...Full Article
Merged Dell-EMC Targets Hybrid Cloud
If bigger is better, the new IT behemoth Dell Technologies Inc. that combines the holdings of Dell and storage leader EMC Corp. fits the bill with the completion a ...Full Article
Steady Shift in Enterprise Workloads to Cloud
An estimated 41 percent of enterprise workloads are currently running in public and private clouds, a total that is expected to rise to 60 percent over the next two ...Full Article
Google Buys Cloud Software Startup
In an attempt to keep pace with its cloud rivals, Google has acquired a cloud enterprise services startup and its platform for buying and selling enterprise software in the ...Full Article
Startup Touts ‘Mixed Reality’ for IoT apps
A Google-backed startup emerging from stealth mode this week is pitching a concept called the "real world web," a cloud-based platform designed to capitalize on emerging virtual reality technology ...Full Article
Public Cloud-based Compliance Storage: How to Do It Right
Electronic disk storage became popular in the early 2000’s for archive and compliance storage. SEC Rule 17a-4 is the federal regulation that requires broker-dealers and other regulated companies to ...Full Article