SUSE Touts Financial Growth, Hints at Future Acquisitions
CTO Thomas Di Giacomo said the company plans to invest more into its operations including a focus on acquisitions.
HCI Heats Up in Vegas With VMware, Cisco, Veeam, and Pivot3
At VMworld and at home this week, all four of the top hyperconverged infrastructure vendors made news with their HCI platforms and partnerships.
Cloudian’s $94M Funding Round Signals SD-Storage Is Officially Exciting
This brings its total to $173 million and marks a “watershed moment in storage,” says CMO Jon Toor.
HPE’s Hyperconverged Segment Attains Annual Run Rate of $1 Billion
HPE CFO Tim Stonesifer will be stepping down. And HPE CEO Antonio Neri has selected Tarek Robbiati to fill the role effective Sept. 17.
Juniper Research: Far East 5G Operators Top US as ‘Most Promising’
NTT DoCoMo, SK Telecom, LG U+, KT Telecom, and SoftBank topped Juniper Research’s list of the “most promising” 5G network operators.
White Paper: Taking a Modern Approach to Data Protection for Web-Scale Infrastructure
This white paper looks at a new breed of modern, web-scale data protection solution – and examines how it makes data protection more manageable, reliable and affordable than legacy approaches.
Google Transfers Kubernetes Operational Control to CNCF
Internal Google policies had prevented the ability to add non-Google employees to deal with some of the management.
VMware User Group VMUG Counts 125,000 Members
Membership in VMUG is free. The group makes its money by selling sponsorships for its in-person events, and it also sells an upgraded membership.
Orchestration and Automation: The One-Two Punch for Multi-Cloud Simplicity
Success in multi-cloud environments will be characterized by the adoption of an operational framework that can exploit all the advantages of a multi-cloud world.
Hyperscale Capex Soars to $53 Billion in First Half of 2018
A Synergy Research Group report found that Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook accounted for 70 percent of total hyperscale capex.
Gremlin Chaos Engineering Now Attacks Docker Containers
The software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform recreates common Docker container failures across three categories: resource, network, and state.
NV Certifications May Make or Break Careers for Network Engineers
Networking professionals no longer can only have a limited scope of skills. The addition of other certifications will mean more career growth and more pay.
Dell EMC to Sync Hyperconverged Updates With VMware Software
The new Dell EMC VxRail G560 will be the first and only HCI appliance jointly developed with VMware to provide integrations that seamlessly work with VMware Cloud Services.
Arista Founder Takes Aim at Cisco With VMware NSX ‘Open Framework’
“Proprietary is not a word in our dictionary,” said Andy Bechtolsheim, founder, chief development officer, and chairman at Arista.
ODPi Group Launches Egeria Project to Manage Metadata
The project is housed in the Linux Foundation and is a standardized way for managing the flow of metadata between different big data technologies and vendor platforms.
Michael Dell at VMworld: Edge Is Where It’s At
Dell said edge products and services represent a massive opportunity, and VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger outlined his company’s telco strategy.
VMworld Opener: CloudHealth Acquisition, Edge Preview, and Gelsinger’s New Tattoo
In addition to scooping up a cloud-monitoring startup and developing an edge strategy VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger took some time to get a new tattoo before VMworld.
Lavelle Networks Launches SD-WAN NFV for Microsoft Windows Hosts
The Lavelle Networks SD-WAN software appliance sits within an NFV container in a Microsoft Windows environment for greater control and enhanced network management.
Nokia Scores $583 Million 5G R&D Loan From European Commission
The funds come at a critical time as analysts have noted Europe is lagging behind North America and Asia on 5G deployments.
IDC Predicts the Orchestration Segment of Telecom NFVI to Grow Fastest
For its inaugural telecom NFVI report, IDC says an example of orchestration would be ONAP.