One of the most litigious companies in the valley is Oracle. It is currently in the throes of planning an appeal against a judgement over its Java product. It is well known that HP and Oracle do not play nice in the corporate playground. Larry Ellison famously stated in 2010 that it would be “virtually impossible” for the two companies to …
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In a previous article, I suggested that hyperconverged is just a step on a path to simpler IT infrastructure. Before I look at the specific technology areas that I think will become simplified, I’d like to look at how the simplification works. I see simplification coming in two parts. The first is very advanced complexity, in which there is …
Continuum works with compatible Windows apps to reconfigure the app to make better use of the bigger screen
My assessment is based more on more of a specific scenario in where a company or corporation has presented their business units the options of utilizing a shared infrastructure as well as the options of utilizing the option of a public clouds that are readily available in the technology marketplace.
This is the first in a series of articles that offer a journey through the history of our sponsors. These articles will look at where and when each company’s journey started and at highlights along the way. Vembu is one of those companies that you may not have heard of but are, in fact, actually quite large. …
Many of these posts talk about network functions virtualization (NFV) rather than software-defined networking (SDN). NFV is a subset of SDN that is more specific, and it is applicable to a higher level of the application stack. Whereas SDN is aimed at the network layers, NFV is aimed at manipulating the data. The idea of …
