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Platform9 Raises Cash, Eyes Hybrid Cloud Deployments
Platform9, the open-source tool vendor specializing in hybrid cloud services, announced a third round of funding this week as cloud frameworks such as OpenStack and Kubernetes gain traction among ...Full Article
HPE, Hedvig Target Hybrid Cloud Storage
A day after announcing lackluster quarterly results as IT hardware demand declines, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and software-defined storage startup Hedvig Inc. announced a hybrid cloud storage platform customized for HPE ...Full Article
HPE Eyes Storage Gains as Server Sales Slide
Slowing demand for servers and related networking hardware cut deeply into Hewlett-Packard Enterprise's quarterly revenues, the company reported this week. The 13 percent decline in revenues for the second ...Full Article
IBM, D-Wave Report Quantum Computing Advances
IBM said this week it has built and tested a pair of quantum computing processors, including a prototype of a commercial version. That progress follows an announcement earlier this ...Full Article
HPE’s Memory-centric The Machine Coming into View, Opens ARMs to 3rd-party Developers
Announced three years ago, HPE’s The Machine is said to be the largest R&D program in the venerable company’s history, one that could be progressing toward the epic grandeur ...Full Article
HPE Adds ‘Predictive Flash’ with Storage Deal
Hewlett Packard Enterprise continued its headlong push into the hybrid IT market with its second large acquisition of 2017: a $1 billion deal to acquire flash specialist Nimble Storage ...Full Article
Multi-Cloud Rivals See Opening in AWS Crash
Cloud rivals pounced this week in response to a major outage at Amazon Web Services S3 cloud storage service, arguing that the high-profile crash underscores the need for enterprises ...Full Article
Tokyo Tech’s TSUBAMI3.0 Will Be First HPE-SGI Super
Editor’s note: Just after posting the story Thursday at 9:30 pm PT, we received confirmation from Dr. Satoshi Matsuoka that the primary contractor is SGI Japan. Partners include NVIDIA (P100 Pascal ...Full Article
HPE Buys Hyper-Converger Simplivity
Making use of the "dry powder" accumulated via the spin off of its software business last year, Hewlett Packard Enterprise is acquiring hyper-converged infrastructure specialist Simplivity Corp. to expand ...Full Article
HPE Rolls Out ‘Micro’ Datacenter
The evolution of Hewlett Packard Enterprise as an infrastructure software vendor advanced this week with the release of a "micro datacenter" offering that targets exponential data growth and the ...Full Article