Cloud computing is starting to come of age. It has fundamentally altered the IT landscape, dramatically boosting IT agility while lowering costs. What started out as a side project for companies like VMware has led to the proliferation of cloud providers and stacks from IaaS providers based on OpenStack, PaaS providers like Cloud Foundry, and …
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Explaining the Value of Containers to Your Boss
Containers are all the rage these days. Many large enterprises are experimenting with containers, and some have implemented them in some form or fashion. Most of the excitement and experimentation is a grassroots effort, and containers are being used within pockets of the enterprises. In many cases, management is aware of container technology but has …
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News: Carbon Nanotube Memory Developer Nantero Closes $31.5M Funding Round
A new high-speed memory technology from stealthy startup Nantero is one step closer to reshaping data center storage. Nantero announced on Tuesday, June 2, that it had closed a $31.5 million series E financing round, bringing funding up to a total of $78 million and opening the door to further development and future volume production …
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Pets vs Cattle Is Not Reality
Yes, the title is a bit caustic, but I have been giving some serious thought about the attitude of pets vs cattle within a hybrid cloud environment, and every time, it boils down to the conclusion that we shoot cattle because the underlying infrastructure is just not robust enough to treat our cattle like a …
Startups Use Distributed Cloud to Heat Homes
One of the big challenges of cloud scale data center operation is determining what to do with the waste heat. In a typical data center, cooling systems account for roughly forty percent of capital equipment costs, and thirty percent of the energy consumed in a facility goes into cooling. Data center operators are forever looking to new …
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All the World Is an EMC Cloud
With the news that EMC has bought Virtustream (to be completed near the end of the year), the cloud landscape does not change very much in the short term; however, in the long term, the EMC family has its work cut out for it to integrate all its cloud solutions. The EMC family currently has …