The latest iteration promises dramatic increases in I/O speeds.
Amid the software-defined networking (SDN) hype and wide-ranging predictions about huge growth and imminent industry transformation comes data from a new Piper Jaffray survey indicating prognosticators may be a little too optimistic -- at least in terms of timing.
The figures come via IDC's new quarterly cloud infrastructure tracker.
Big Switch Networks Inc. capped off a big year in the software-defined networking (SDN) industry by announcing its flagship networking fabric was awarded certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5, laying the groundwork for OpenStack cloud computing implementations.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Inc. recently joined tech giants like Google Inc. and Apple Inc. in promising to run its datacenters solely on renewable energy.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Inc. announced a raft of enhancements to its AWS Partner Network (APN) during last week's re:Invent conference in Las Vegas.
The company calls it "a unified development and operations experience."
- By John K. Waters
- 11/20/2014
Respondents expect the cloud to hold most of the industry's data within five years.
The company rolls out a "grand" strategy to draw customers to its hybrid cloud platform.
Although not a full-fleged client, a new command-line interface may be a harbinger of things to come.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/18/2014
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Inc. unveiled the Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) with Docker support on Thursday.
Several analyst firms are predicting industry disruption, starting as early as 2015.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Inc. on Wednesday announced a number of new services during the opening keynote of its third-annual re:Invent conference, taking place this week in Las Vegas.
As companies go deeper into the cloud, the more difficult integration becomes, the study also finds.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Inc. on Thursday introduced a new DevOps certification for IT pros.
MidoNet is used chiefly for SDN on the OpenStack cloud platform.
The best solution depends on what your data is doing.
- By Larry Parscale
- 11/05/2014
That represents a six-fold increase over 2014 sales.
"Perimeter security is kind of done for," says one expert.
- By John K. Waters
- 11/04/2014
Enabled by emergent software-defined networking (SDN) technology, the nonprofit Internet2 organization announced "the first nationwide, multi-tenant SDN-powered virtualized network capability."