by Jean Bozman | Dec 17, 2015
Introduction On Dec. 3, 2015, I moderated a “Top 10 Things About SDI” panel at the Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI) Summit in Santa Clara, CA. The panel discussion included IT company executives from IBM; Gridstore—a Silicon Valley hyperconverged systems...
by Jean Bozman | Nov 16, 2015
The Oracle SuperCluster M7 system announced at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco on Oct. 26, 2015, features many capabilities that fit well with Oracle’s emphasis on cloud enablement and cloud infrastructure. The key features for the M7 processor – security, on-chip...
by Jean Bozman | Jun 23, 2015
Introduction Large enterprises at the Hadoop Summit in San Jose (June 9-11, 2015) spoke clearly about the need for management and security as they scale up their Hadoop clusters for Big Data Analytics. The scale-ups in many industry giants underscored the importance...
by Jean Bozman | Jun 5, 2015
IBM’s announcement that it is acquiring Blue Box Group, a Seattle company that leverages OpenStack for private cloud deployments, fits neatly into IBM’s portfolio for hybrid clouds. Hybrid clouds are top-of-mind for systems companies today, given their potential to...
by Jean Bozman | May 29, 2015
Introduction The OpenStack 2015 conference in Vancouver showed that OpenStack standards for building clouds – and connecting them—are finding wider use in enterprises and cloud services datacenters. This vision of hybrid clouds linking enterprise datacenters and...
