by jbozman | Dec 17, 2015 | Infrastructure & the Cloud, Insight
Introduction On Dec. 3, 2015, I moderated a “Top 10 Things About SDI” panel at the Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI) Summit in Santa Clara, CA. The panel discussion included IT company executives from IBM; Gridstore—a Silicon Valley hyperconverged systems...
by jbozman | Nov 16, 2015 | Infrastructure & the Cloud, Insight
The Oracle SuperCluster M7 system announced at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco on Oct. 26, 2015, features many capabilities that fit well with Oracle’s emphasis on cloud enablement and cloud infrastructure. The key features for the M7 processor – security, on-chip...
by jbozman | Jun 23, 2015 | Data & Information Platforms, Insight
Introduction Large enterprises at the Hadoop Summit in San Jose (June 9-11, 2015) spoke clearly about the need for management and security as they scale up their Hadoop clusters for Big Data Analytics. The scale-ups in many industry giants underscored the importance...
by jbozman | Jun 5, 2015 | Infrastructure & the Cloud, Insight
IBM’s announcement that it is acquiring Blue Box Group, a Seattle company that leverages OpenStack for private cloud deployments, fits neatly into IBM’s portfolio for hybrid clouds. Hybrid clouds are top-of-mind for systems companies today, given their potential to...
by jbozman | May 29, 2015 | Infrastructure & the Cloud, Insight
Introduction The OpenStack 2015 conference in Vancouver showed that OpenStack standards for building clouds – and connecting them—are finding wider use in enterprises and cloud services datacenters. This vision of hybrid clouds linking enterprise datacenters and...
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