Dell’s formation of a new software group, which was announced Thursday, could be the forerunner to a string of acquisitions by …
Dell forms new software division, names former CEO as head
Dell has announced it is forming a software group, which will bring together disparate products under one roof as the …
A positive outlook
As we usher in 2012, it is important to reflect on the year gone by. I am sure most IT …
Defending their PaaS territory
Independent platform-as-a-service (PaaS) providers acknowledge that theirs is a crowded market, especially with big IT vendors like Oracle, Hewlett-Packard (HP) …
Rackspace to offer support for clouds in other data centres
Rackspace for the first time plans to extend its support services to OpenStack cloud implementations that reside within the walls …
Riverbed expands cloud storage ecosystem
Riverbed Technology, the IT performance company, today announced an expansion of the ecosystem for the Riverbed Whitewater family of cloud …
VMware CEO Maritz warns customers to be prepared for licensing changes
VMware’s CEO, Paul Maritz, has warned that the pricing model for virtualisation will evolve “radically” as it heads towards a …
Red Hat raids cloud storage market by acquiring Gluster
Red Hat announced yesterday that it is acquiring Gluster, which makes open-source software that clusters commodity SATA drives and NAS …
Path perfect
In the second part of the interview, Paul Maritz, CEO of VMWare explains the path ahead for the company across …
Dell sells preconfigured Hadoop system
Recognising Apache Hadoop’s growing presence in the field of data analysis, Dell will start selling servers preloaded with the open-source …
Former NASA CTO launches cloud appliance
The former CTO of NASA and co-founder of OpenStack yesterday, unveiled a new appliance designed to make it easy for …
New initiative aims to certify open clouds
After forming in 2009 and stalling a couple of times since, the Open Cloud Initiative formally launched yesterday in an …
Dell debuts cloud-ready system
Using OpenStack cloud software, Dell has created a package of hardware, software and services that organizations can use to deploy …
Citrix acquires Cloud.com
Citrix Systems today announced it has completed the acquisition of Cloud.com, a market leading provider of software infrastructure platforms for …
Brocade unveils vision for the virtual enterprise
Brocade today introduced a new technology architecture – the CloudPlex – that outlines the company’s vision and the technology investments …