Cloudian Adds Object-Based Storage Platform Monitoring Tool
Cloudian today added a monitoring and observability tool to its object-based portfolio of appliances for storing unstructured data in on-premises IT environments. Jon Toor, chief marketing officer for Cloudian, said HyperIQ provides access to analytics and health checks that enables predictive maintenance, enhances security and optimizes storage utilization. Cloudian is also pledging to extend the […]
Cisco Acquires ThousandEyes to Advance Network Visibility
Cisco Systems this week announced its intent to acquire ThousandEyes, provider of an internet monitoring platform that Cisco plans to leverage to embed ThousandEyes agent software into a range of devices including network routers and switches, security tools and application performance management (APM) software from AppDynamics. As part of that effort, ThousandEyes will become the […]
How SD-WAN Is Driving Business Continuity in a COVID World
The coronavirus outbreak has thrown the economy into flux, creating changes to entire industries that would have been unpredictable a few months ago. While demand for travel has decreased dramatically, other businesses such as grocery chains, financial services and retailers are under immense pressure to serve customers in new ways. Enterprises with thousands of employees […]
Is Your Infrastructure Ready for Edge Computing?
Like many IT innovations, edge computing began with engineers as a natural extension of technology to address a growing need. The concept isn’t new; distributed computing has been around for decades. But, at the same time standards began to converge and edge hardware started making the rounds at trade shows, the hype machine saw an […]
Chef Adds Support for Arm Graviton 2 Processors on AWS Cloud
Chef announced this week that its offerings for managing and testing infrastructure as code now support Graviton 2 processors from Arm on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. AWS this week announced the availability of an M6g instance of processors on its public cloud. Based on a 64-bit Arm Neoverse N1 architecture, the M6g processors […]
HashiCorp Extends Consul Service Mesh Reach
HashiCorp today made available an update to its Consul service mesh that makes it easier to integrate legacy and modern applications. Service meshes have emerged as a framework for documenting and controlling how application services interact with one another. Most of the adoption of service meshes thus far has involved applications built using microservices. With […]
Cisco Aligns With Google to Meld DevOps and NetOps
The extension of a partnership between Cisco Systems and Google to drive tighter integration between their respective software-defined wide area network (SD-WANs) offerings and cloud platforms promises to accelerate the convergence of NetOps and DevOps. John Apostolopoulos, vice president and CTO for Intent-Based Networking Group at Cisco, said in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic […]
NVIDIA Aims to Drive Disaggregation Following Cumulus Networks Buy
Adoption of open source networking may be about to get a boost following the forthcoming acquisition of Cumulus Network by NVIDIA. The acquisition of the provider of a network operating system (NOS) based on Linux follows an earlier move by NVIDIA to acquire Mellanox, a provider of networking and storage systems. Kevin Deierling, senior vice […]
Low-Code Development: The Future of Communications Experiences
The benefits of embedding real-time communications features into business and consumer applications are well-known. When it comes to customer service, most people would much rather click-to-call from within a web experience, social media site or business application to connect with another person, than find their phone to dial a number and wait in a queue. […]
Citrix Makes Case for VPN Alternative
Citrix this week announced it will make its remote access tool that enables users to efficiently access their desktop PCs more widely available via the cloud. Gabe Carrejo, senior program manager for Citrix, said Remote PC Access provides a more efficient alternative to the virtual private networks (VPNs) that most organizations currently rely on to […]
IBM Looks to Drive Edge Computing
IBM today at its Think Digital conference launched an edge computing initiative anchored around an IBM Edge Application Manager, through which a single administrator can manage up to 10,000 nodes. Hillery Hunter, vice president and CTO for IBM Cloud, said IBM Edge Application Manager is based on the Open Horizon open source software originally developed […]
Dell Advances Convergence of Compute and Storage
Dell Technologies today launched a revamped midrange storage platform that takes advantage of NVMe interfaces and solid-state drives (SSDs) to deliver 7x the performance of previous Dell EMC PowerStore platforms, in addition to allowing applications to run locally on an instance of a VMware virtual machine. Ben Jastrab, senior manager for storage product marketing at […]
HPE Extends Reach of GreenLake Central
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) has made available HPE GreenLake Central, a self-service portal through which IT teams can collaboratively manage and monitor instances of servers deployed in IT environments that are managed by HPE on their behalf. At its core, HPE GreenLake is a managed service that allows IT organizations to pay for IT infrastructure on […]
Latest Version of Open Source IPFS Improves Performance
The team behind the open source InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) announced this week that a significantly faster version of the peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol is now generally available. IPFS is a distributed file system that makes use of a global namespace to connect all computing devices. The fundamental difference between IPFS and other distributed file systems […]
NetApp Grabs CloudJumper to Manage Windows Desktops in the Cloud
NetApp today announced it has acquired CloudJumper, a provider of management tools for virtual desktops at a time when the rate at which Windows desktops are moving into the cloud is accelerating. Anthony Lye, senior vice president and general manager of NetApp’s Cloud Data Services business unit, said NetApp will primarily employ CloudJumper as a […]
Chef Updates Tool for Managing IT Infrastructure as Code
Chef today updated its tool for automating the management of IT infrastructure as part of an effort to further eliminate the need to rely on manual processes that generally fail to scale. John Wyss, vice president of product for Chef, said Chef Infra 16 adds a Unified Mode that provides a more streamlined means of […]
Commvault Deepens Ties With NetApp to Automate Data Protection
Commvault has extended its alliance with NetApp to make it possible to recover files nearly instantaneously from an all-flash memory array. Ranga Rajagopalan, vice president of product management for Commvault, said NetApp Scale-out Data Protection (SDP) from Commvault builds on its backup and recovery software to make it possible to use to NetApp hyperconverged infrastructure […]
Deploying OpenStack: Pick a Distribution With These 7 Qualities
OpenStack, which turns 10 years old in July, remains the leading open source infrastructure component in private clouds. But, there is a plethora of OpenStack distributions out there, and selecting the right one is vital to the success of every organization’s OpenStack project. How do you know which is best? It’s an important question because, […]
GigaSpaces Embraces Kubernetes Alternative for DataOps
GigaSpaces has added a DataOps framework to its in-memory computing platform that provides an alternative to Kubernetes by employing Nomad software from HashiCorp as a scheduler. Yoav Einav, vice president of product for GigaSpaces, said many enterprise IT organizations aren’t in a position to adopt Kubernetes, yet they still need a means to embrace best […]
Managing a New Kind of Complexity in Software-Defined Networking
Software-defined networking (SDN) has moved up the enterprise IT agenda in recent years. And it’s easy to see why–in theory, SDNs are far quicker and easier to control and alter than traditional networks. By using open protocols to apply controls from the network edge, SDNs enable network engineers to shape traffic from a single centralized […]
Accelerating IoT by Switching Gears to 5G
Unprecedented breakthroughs in technology have often resulted in the emergence of disruptive technologies and outstanding innovations. A major development in one technology always fuels the growth and advancement of several other technology domains and industries that take advantage of it, resulting in a need to transform businesses to address new opportunities. The evolution and development […]
AWS Adds GUI to Snow Edge Computing Family
Amazon Web Services (AWS) this week announced it has added a graphical user interface (GUI) tool dubbed AWS OpsHub for Snow Family to provide an alternative to the command-line interface (CLI) tool it makes available to manage its family of Snow appliances deployed in on-premises environments. At the same time, AWS announced it is making […]
Embracing the Journey to Public Cloud
One of the fascinating competitions in today’s business world is the one between the digital disruptors—companies whose business vision is rooted in technology and driven by the cloud—and the so-called incumbents. One sector where this competition is particularly intense is financial services. In this sector, the digital-first companies typically don’t compete with banks and other […]