VMware Pitches Hyper-Converged Infrastructure for Edge Computing
We don’t often get a chance to stick two buzz-phrases into one headline, but thanks to VMware, today is our lucky day. For companies looking to deploy edge computing, be it computers in retail stores,...
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VMware Wants to Be ‘Cloud Switzerland’
After an attempt to become a cloud service provider itself – which appears to have seen mixed results – VMware’s new cloud strategy can be summarized as wanting to be the glue that holds a customer’s...
View ArticleYou Can Now Spin Up VMware Servers in Amazon Data Centers
Ever wish you could just run VMware on Amazon’s cloud? Now you can, but not on the entire AWS cloud, just in one availability region hosted in Amazon data centers in Oregon. This morning, on stage at...
View ArticleOracle Hiring 5,000 for Cloud Business in Race With Salesforce
Gerrit De Vynck (Bloomberg) — Oracle Corp. is hiring another 5,000 employees for its cloud software business as it fights Salesforce.com Inc. for market share in the fast-growing industry.The hiring...
View ArticleWill Edge Computing Help the Server Market Bounce Back to Growth?
If you follow the dynamics of the server market at all, you probably know that the size of the global market has been steadily shrinking in terms of revenue. For five consecutive quarters now, overall...
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A Type of Computing: NYTimes Crossword Moves from AWS to Google App Engine
Brought to you by IT Pro Online games can be compute-intensive, particularly first-person shooters or games with heavy graphics that require a lot of power. But apparently a crossword puzzle can put a...
View ArticleHow Google’s Custom Security Chip Secures Servers at Boot
Data centers these days are busy replacing expensive hardware solutions with “software-defined” everything, but the trend is the opposite when it comes to security. While software still prevails in...
View ArticleHPE and VMware Team Up on Composable Infrastructure, Hybrid Cloud
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is joining forces with VMware to offer composable infrastructure based on HPE Synergy and VMware Cloud Foundation. The integration is called, simply enough, VMware Cloud...
View ArticleDell Says EMC Merger Pays Off as Customers Seek `Fewer Partners’
Brian Womack and Emily Chang (Bloomberg) — Michael Dell, whose namesake company merged with EMC Corp. almost a year ago to create one of the biggest providers of computers, storage and software, said...
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Report: After Amazon-Whole Foods Deal, Target Plans Move from AWS Cloud
Brought to you by IT Pro Will Amazon Web Services (AWS) start to bleed retail clients as merchants begin to pull out of their cloud investments with the company? With Amazon closing on its deal with...
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