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As corporate sustainability increasingly exercises influence on IT decision making, the question becomes how will it affect technology adoption trends. Will cloud adoption accelerate as result? Resources consumed The public cloud provides a good story for corporate sustainability in its “reveal” of resources consumed. Measured resource utilization (MRU) billing can be easily converted into corporate […]

HP’s open source networking operating system, OpenSwitch, is now a Linux Foundation project. Many industry players are joining the project, including Broadcom, Cavium, Extreme Networks, LinkedIn, Mellanox, Nephos Inc., P4.org, Quattro Networks, SnapRoute and, of course, Hewlett Packard Enterprise. OpenSwitch is full-featured, Linux-based modular and modern network operating system that provides support for traditional and […]

One interesting aspect of commentating about a number of vendors in a particular space is that I get to sit in the middle of some competitive mud-slinging. Of course, no one really gets offended by vendor A trying to rain on vendor B’s parade — it’s all part and parcel of the thrust and parry […]

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Mirantis and Red Hat were once very close partners. But the affair didn’t last long, and while Mirantis continued its journey as a pure play OpenStack vendor, Red Hat continued to strengthen its enterprise offerings by building their own stack. Mirantis has made some significant progress recently that positions it as an influential OpenStack player. […]

Once a market and technology matures, there tend to be a few large companies that are generalists and a second group of companies that provide niche versions of a technology. For example, take a look at dating sites, which I’m using as an example because the industry is mature. The factors that represent maturity include: […]

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Net – Robert Bosch GmbH is taking on U.S. technology rivals by launching its own “cloud” computing network to connect up anything from cars to … RSS-1

A fifth of all businesses will have deployed IoT-related security by the end of 2017, analyst Gartner thinks. Dedicated digital security services that are committed to “protecting business initiatives using devices and services in the Internet of Things” will be in place by then, the research and advisory company says. Gartner made the statement in […]

It’s a heartache, nothing but a heartache. Hits you when it’s too late, hits you when you’re down. It’s a fools’ game, nothing but a fool’s game. Standing in the cold rain, feeling like a clown. When singer Bonnie Tyler recorded in her distinctive raspy voice “It’s A Heartache” in 1978, you’d think she was […]

Tidemark delivers enterprise performance management (EPM) software. What that esoteric acronym means is that Tidemark helps organizations take internal data they already have and use it to plan the future steps they will take, but also to assess the historical performance of their organization. Tidemark was founded only a few short years ago (in 2009, to […]