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Gartner: Cloud, enterprise software to drive global IT spending increase
Spending on enterprise software, particularly cloud services and applications, is expected to grow faster than any other category of IT this year, fueling an overall increase in global spending on technology. → Read More
The top 10 stories of 2018: Blockchain rises, open source reigns, trust wanes
Optimists can look at 2018 and point to GDPR privacy protections, the launch of blockchain business apps and the creativity of the open-source community as signs technology can lead us to a safe and prosperous future. Meanwhile, security breaches, the data-collection practices of corporate giants and fears that nation-states are using tech as a weapon stir concerns about the corrosive effects… → Read More
HPE puts enterprise software applications at the edge network
HPE moves to certify complete enterprise software stacks, allowing enterprises to run the exact same applications in the data center, in the cloud or at the network edge. → Read More
HPE adds GreenLake Hybrid Cloud to enterprise service offerings
With its new GreenLake Hybrid Cloud offering, HPE's message to the enterprise is simple: Your cloud, your way. → Read More
IBM launches new data centers worldwide for hybrid enterprise clouds
CIOs and data center managers who run large hybrid clouds worldwide have a greater chance of hearing IBM knock on their doors in the next few months. → Read More
HPE's new Nimble flash arrays offer storage guarantee, NVMe and SCM support
HPE is rolling out the next generation of its Nimble Storage platform, overhauled to better meet the ever-increasing performance demands on data center workloads including real-time web analytics, business intelligence, and mission-critical enterprise resource applications. → Read More
Juniper multicloud management software targets enterprise data centers
Facing the reality that many if not most enterprise data center managers now work in a hyrbrid cloud environment, Juniper has started to offer Contrail Enterprise Multicloud, a software package designed to monitor and manage workloads and servers deployed across networking and cloud infrastructure from multiple vendors. → Read More
Intel FPGAs step toward mainstream in Dell, Fujitsu enterprise servers
With Dell and Fujitsu putting Intel Arria 10 GX programmable acceleration cards into off-the-shelf servers for the data center, enterprises should find it easier to tap the benefits of FPGAs. → Read More
FPGA maker Xilinx aims new software programmable chips at data centers
Xilinx, which for decades has vied with rival Altera (now part of Intel) for technical leadership in FPGAs, is unveiling what it calls a new product category – the Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform (ACAP) – that, it says, goes far beyond the capabilities of current FPGAs. → Read More
Snowflake, now a unicorn, eyes global growth for cloud data warehouse
Fueled by a capital injection of $263 million making it the first cloud-native data warehouse startup to achieve "unicorn" status, Snowflake is set this year to expand its global footprint, offer cross-regional, data-sharing capabilities, and develop interoperability with a growing set of related tools. → Read More
Snowflake, now a unicorn, eyes global growth for cloud data warehouse
Fueled by a capital injection of $263 million making it the first cloud-native data warehouse startup to achieve "unicorn" status, Snowflake is set this year to expand its global footprint, offer cross-regional, data-sharing capabilities, and develop interoperability with a growing set of related tools. → Read More
HPE offers a SaaS-based tool for hybrid cloud management
HPE introduces OneSphere, a multi-cloud management platform that will promote 'useful' shadow IT on premises and in conjunction with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud → Read More
HPE offers SaaS-based tool for hybrid cloud management
While cloud computing holds out the promise of operational efficiency and cost optimization, most companies -- especially large ones -- will be operating hybrid computing environments for the foreseeable future. As a result, cloud technology for many companies adds yet another layer on top of an already complex computing infrastructure. → Read More
HPE pushes for the autonomous data center with InfoSight AI recommendation engine
HPE is adding an AI-based recommendation engine to the InfoSight predictive analytics platform for flash storage, taking another step toward what it calls the autonomous data center. The ultimate goal is to simplify and automate infrastructure management in order to cut operation expenses. → Read More
Qualcomm ships ARM chip to challenge Intel in cloud data centers
Qualcomm's ARM-based Centriq 2400 chips could break Intel's virtual monopoly on server processors to bring down data center costs. → Read More
A year after Oracle buy, a focused NetSuite doubles down on verticals, midmarket
When Oracle first announced its agreement to acquire NetSuite, back in July 2016, there was widespread agreement in the tech industry that the deal could allow Oracle to serve a broader range of customers, expand to more vertical industries and more countries, and accelerate Oracle's application software push into the cloud. The question now is whether the deal has started to live up to its… → Read More
GE adds edge analytics, AI capabilities to its industrial IoT suite
To solidify its position at the center of the industrial IoT, GE Digital is going to the edge. → Read More
GE adds edge analytics, AI capabilities to Predix industrial IoT suite
To solidify its position at the center of the industrial IoT, GE Digital is going to the edge. → Read More
Oracle leverages AI to push enterprise apps as users move to cloud
Ratcheting up the pace of enhancements to its software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) offerings, Oracle is riding the wave of companies that are ditching on-premises enterprise apps and heading to the cloud. → Read More
Oracle leverages AI to push enterprise apps as users move to cloud
Ratcheting up the pace of enhancements to its software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) offerings, Oracle is riding the wave of companies that are ditching on-premises enterprise apps and heading to the cloud. → Read More