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Google Expands Cloud Tools with Data Orchestrator
Google Cloud Platform’s new data orchestrator dubbed Cloud Composer is its latest managed service based on its Apache Airflow workflow management tool. Announcing the beta launch of Cloud Composer ...Full Article
Rackspace is Latest to Roll Bare Metal Service
Rackspace is expanding it managed private cloud services with the addition of six new bare metal instances that it collectively refers to as bare metal as a service. The ...Full Article
As Object Storage Booms, Analytics Issues Emerge
With object-based storage capacity predicted to grow at double-digit annual rates over the next several years, attention is turning to shortcomings such as barriers to data visibility and difficulties ...Full Article
VMware Sharpens Focus on Hybrid Cloud
VMware this week takes the wraps off the latest versions of its server virtualization and software-defined storage platforms with an emphasis on hybrid cloud deployments, broader application support and—in ...Full Article
Software Investments Propel IT Spending
Enterprise software and infrastructure services continue to fuel the growth of global IT spending to levels not seen in a decade, according a new spending forecast. Gartner Inc. report ...Full Article
Qumulo’s QF2 NVMe All-Flash File Storage: 4GBs/Second Per Node
Claiming for itself the title of the world’s highest performance file storage system, Qumulo this week announced a new “enterprise-ready and cloud integrated” NVMe all-flash solution that the company ...Full Article
Memory Demand Propels Booming Chip Market
Chip makers have been scrambling to find new applications for their wares, focusing on the Internet of Things, big data and emerging machine learning applications requiring more processing power. ...Full Article
Metadata is the New Data: The Power of Metadata Visualization
Organizing data is a challenge. The digital universe, according to International Data Corporation (IDC), doubles every two years. Based on current projections, it’s expected to reach 44 trillion gigabytes ...Full Article
Chip Makers Collaborate on NVMe Fabrics
A trio of chip makers will collaborate on a reference architecture for speeding deployment of NVM Express over storage network fabrics. Cavium Technologies, which specializes in processors for cloud ...Full Article
When Buying HCI, Avoid These 3 Mistakes
The interest in hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) appliances is widespread, replacing, and in some sense displacing, the hype around all-flash arrays as “the” hot topic in previous years. Organizations are ...Full Article
