AMD unveiled its new Opteron 6300 Series server processors based on its next-generation “Piledriver” core architecture. The 6300 series is designed to boost performance and scalability in virtualized server platforms for private and public cloud deployments, big data systems and high-performance…
The Windows Azure public cloud is coming to China. Microsoft has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the municipality of Shanghai, and signed agreement to license Microsoft technologies to 21Vianet, who will offer Azure in China out of local…
As IT managers and CIOs worked to get their heads around cloud a separate revolution was raging in terms of BYOD and consumerisation of IT. Now, warns Citrix country manager Grace O’Rourke Veitch, they are hard-pressed to deal with the…
Will Monday’s downtime for some customers of Amazon Web Services have a lasting impact for AWS, the largest player in the cloud computing arena? The incident is unlikely to cause any kind of mass exodus, and doesn’t discredit cloud as…
Power and cooling continue to strain even the most modern data centers. Industry analysts estimate that data centers consume ~1.5 percent of the total available energy supply worldwide. And this percentage is going up. In addition to dealing with the…
Cisco today announced that the Hertz Corporation, the world’s largest general use car rental brand, has deployed the Cisco Unified Computing System™ (Cisco UCS®) as its new server platform in Europe. Cisco UCS enabled Hertz to virtualise its IT architecture…
NetApp (NTAP) and Cisco (CSCO) introduced ExpressPod, a prepackaged and tested solution for growing small and medium-sized organizations. The two companies have also added new storage clustering capabilities to the FlexPod data center platform, and announced the release of a validated VMware…
IBM and AT&T (T) announced a business agreement to delivery a secure, network-enabled cloud service that uses private networks rather than the public internet. The companies are combining AT&T virtual private networking and IBM SmartCloud Enterprise+ cloud capabilities with technology from…
VMware (VMW) unveiled an updated cloud management portfolio, including improved ability to manage multiple hypervisors and cloud assets at Amazon Web Services. VMware’s new vCloud Automation Center 5.1 is based on DynamicOps, which VMware acquired in July 2012, VMware vCloud Automation…
In the long-running debate about the definition of cloud computing, many cloud-watchers insist that a true cloud must be self-service, allowing users to provision and deploy their own servers. With its new savvisdirect service, CenturyLink is bringing that capability to…
