With the goal of simplifying deployment of new-age networking technologies such as software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV), PLUMgrid Inc. and Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. have teamed up to tackle OpenStack automation.
Are you gaining flexibility or unwittingly setting yourself up for lock-in?
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 05/18/2015
The results come via an annual report by Nasuni.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/15/2015
Big Switch Networks today announced its upgraded software-defined networking offering now supports VMware NSX virtualization.
How to leverage Security Assertion Markup Language to pass authentication information to Salesforce.
PLUMgrid is partnering with Cumulus Networks to offer the benefits of software-defined networking in OpenStack environments running on bare-metal hardware.
A three-hour keynote touched on a bit of everything, including Microsoft Azure, Windows and security.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/05/2015
Simplified upgrades is another feature, including rolling upgrades for Hyper-V.
It's cloud optimized, and 20 times smaller than Server Core.
Its main new features revolve around greater scalability.
AWS is worth between $48 billion - $69 billion, according to some estimates.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/29/2015
The ubquitious cloud continues to conquer the datacenter, now accounting for one-third of all IT infrastructure spending, according to new research from IDC.
Bedrock Data thinks it has a solution.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 04/23/2015
Called Project Photon and Project Lightwave, they provide an infrastructure and security model for containers in the cloud.
Up to 64,000 IOPS per VM is supported at the new tier.
Among the many challengers stepping into the ring, the top contender is Microsoft.
The container company is a darling of venture capitalists.
The IDC study also shows that most are using their clouds for IT operations.
Microsoft on Wednesday said it will offer Hyper-V container support to provide additional deployment scenarios and allow for the development of more scalable apps.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/09/2015
The company was founded by a former NASA CTO.