Author Archives: Timothy Prickett Morgan
Timothy Prickett Morgan
OpenDaylight Lifts the Veil on ‘Hydrogen’ SDN Software Stack
September 19th, 2013
The OpenDaylight consortium is trying to do for software-defined networking what Linux did for operating systems. And that is to provide an open source set of tools for virtualizing networks that is created under a collaborative, and yet organized, ...
Oracle Still Looking Ahead To Rebounding Systems Sales
September 19th, 2013
Oracle got into the systems business with its acquisition of Sun Microsystems more than three years ago, and it has yet to see that systems business stop falling. But co-president Mark Hurd told Wall Street analysts on a conference ...
IT Vendors Dominate Linux Development
September 18th, 2013
Once a year, the Linux Foundation puts out a report to show who has been doing the work on the kernel of the Linux operating system. With the 3.10 kernel, a slew of ARM chip makers are contributing heavily ...
IBM Invests $1 Billion In Linux To Revive Power Systems
September 18th, 2013
IBM wants its Power Systems server business to grow again, and it is going to have to rely on Linux to make it happen. And so, last week at the LinuxCon 2013 conference, Big Blue said that it would ...
Juniper’s Contrail Virtualizes Networks Without OpenFlow
September 18th, 2013
Like other switch and router suppliers, Juniper Networks has to bring virtualization to the network to make connectivity more malleable and manageable. It's either that or someone else will. After a strategic acquisition earlier this year and some testing ...
VCE Vblocks Chase More – And Bigger – Workloads
September 18th, 2013
Partnerships in the IT sector don't always work out, but it looks like the Virtual Computing Environment effort between server upstart Cisco Systems, storage juggernaut EMC, and the latter's VMware server virtualization subsidiary is. Large enterprises are moving from ...
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