Facebook Datacenters Nearing Green Energy Goal
Hyperscale datacenter operators continue to strive for energy efficiency as most struggle to keep pace with more demanding workloads. Progress is being reported on at least one front: Facebook ...Full Article
VMware Buys Cloud Manager, Partners With AWS
VMware said it will acquire CloudHealth Technologies, a provider of tools for managing cloud costs and resources. Separately, VMware announced during a company event this week in Las Vegas ...Full Article
Data Scientists, Not AutoML, Driving Model Development
As machine learning technology matures and moves into the mainstream, analysts are attempting to figure out who within organizations is building machine learning models used in production and what ...Full Article
Network Automation Remains Elusive, Survey Finds
Enterprise networks, the plumbing of the vaunted digital transformation, are beginning to catch up with the rest the IT operation as network managers look seriously at automation tools while ...Full Article
Pure Storage Acquires Cloud Backup Startup
Pure Storage has boosted its ability to manage big data migrating to the cloud with the acquisition of privately-held StorReduce. Terms of the acquisition, which closed earlier this month, ...Full Article
Dell EMC’s New Servers for Transition to the ‘Disaggregated,’ Software-Defined Data Center
Dell EMC today launched a new high-performance server line, the PowerEdge MX, that the company said sits squarely in the middle of traditional and next-generation AI-oriented workloads, supporting both ...Full Article
HPE Upgrades its Cloud Services Manager
As application containers handle more production workloads and the de facto standard orchestration tool Kubernetes is used to scale those deployments, more cloud-native applications can be “built once and ...Full Article
Talend Links Big Data to Azure SQL Warehouse
Data integrators continue to roll out connections between huge data stores and public cloud data warehouses. The latest comes from Talend, which this week unveiled a data fabric “uploader” ...Full Article
Startup Netifi Eyes ‘Reactive’ Microservices
A microservices startup built upon open-source software designed to replace the HTTP data transfer protocol has attracted seed funding from early investors led by Dell Technologies Capital. Netifi, founded ...Full Article
‘Zero Trust’ Vendor Gains U.S. Cloud Approval
As mobile workers access more corporate data stored in the cloud, a secure network architecture called “Zero Trust” is emerging as a way of maintaining control of sensitive data ...Full Article
