HPE Acquires Simplivity – Strong Tactical Move with Strategic Ramifications for the HCI Landscape
Rumors had been flying for some time about SimpliVity needing additional funding, and that HPE had made an offer that was unacceptably low at $650…
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Linux vs. Unix Hot Patching – Have We Reached The Tipping Point?
The Background — Linux as a Fast Follower and the Need for Hot Patching No doubt about it, Linux has made impressive strides in the…
May 20, 2016
Big Iron Lives — Huawei Shows Off KunLun 32S x86 Server
I was recently at an event that Huawei hosted in Latin America for its telecom carrier community, in which Huawei was showing off an impressive…
May 1, 2016
Azure Stack Preview – Microsoft-s End-Game for On-Premise IT?
What’s Happening? In 2014 I wrote about Microsoft and Dell’s joint Cloud Platform System offering, Microsoft’s initial foray into an “Azure-Like” experience in the…
January 26, 2016
HPE Transforms Infrastructure Management with Synergy Composable Infrastructure Announcement
Background I’ve written and commented in the past about the inevitability of a new class of infrastructure called “composable”, i.e. integrated server, storage and network…
December 1, 2015
Oracle Delivers “Software on Silicon” – Doubles Down on Optimizing its Own Software with Latest Hardware
What’s new? Looking at Oracle’s latest iteration of its SPARC processor technology, the new M7 CPU, it is at first blush an excellent implementation of…
November 17, 2015
Sea Changes in the Industry – A New HP and a New Dell Face Off
The acquisition of EMC by Dell has is generating an immense amount of hype and prose, much of it looking forward at how the merged…
November 9, 2015
New Announcements Foreshadow Fundamental Changes in Server and Storage Architectures
My colleague Henry Baltazar and I have been watching the development of new systems and…
August 24, 2015
IBM Pushes Chip Technology with Stunning 7 nm Chip Demonstration
In the world of CMOS semiconductor process, the fundamental heartbeat that drives the continuing evolution of all the devices and computers we use and governs…
July 9, 2015
Red Hat Summit – Can you say OpenStack and Containers?
In a world where OS and low-level platform software is considered unfashionable, it was refreshing to see the Linux glitterati and cognoscenti descended on Boston…