HP’s Moonshot offers high-density, low-power servers that are ideal for hyperscale data centers, but don’t expect them to unseat virtualized servers and blades in the enterprise.
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HP Launches Moonshot: Little Servers for Big Applications
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5 Ways To Avoid Costly Cloud Surprises
Use of infrastructure as service is growing, but do users know what they’re doing in the cloud? Two critical analyses would suggest that they don’t.
Cloudyn is one of several usage assessment and optimization firms that have been started to serve cloud customers. These new companies often make a basic online service available for free, upping the ante with monthly charges once users discover how much they can learn from the monitoring and diagnostic services.
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Pivotal Is About Big Data, Not Fighting Amazon
EMC Pivotal’s focus on Big Data may mean little competitive overlap with Amazon Web Services and other cloud providers, say analysts.
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Riverbed Updates APM Suite for Multi-Tier Applications
News roundup: Riverbed OPNET AppInternals Xpert integrates with popular IDEs; Big Switch debuts SDN thin switch; Silver Peak speeds up data replication; Sendmail simplifies migration to cloud email.
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OpenStack Grizzly Has SDN Teeth
The OpenStack Foundation issued its Grizzly release Thursday with 230 new features for running production-level cloud computing, but the most important additions dealt with the new area of software-defined networking.
The OpenStack compute component can now support multiple hypervisors, including VMware ESX Server, open source KVM and Xen and Microsoft’s Hyper-V. “With Grizzly, there’s no advantage of one hypervisor over another,” said John Engates, CTO of Rackspace, the cloud services supplier that first got the OpenStack project going in collaboration with NASA. OpenStack has been known up until the Grizzly release for primarily supporting KVM, the open source hypervisor that’s found inside the Linux kernel and often favored by open source developers.
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In Defense of Slow IT
Stop hectoring IT about how it’s too much of a laggard in our modern tech world. Sometimes there are good reasons to take things slow.
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Amazon EC2, Microsoft Connect Via Cloud Management Plug-In
Hybrid Express, software for managing hybrid clouds from startup Hotlink, has added an Amazon EC2 plugin to let IT manage cloud instances from Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager.
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Attackers Hold Upper Hand Despite Increased Security Spending
From advanced malware to spear phishing that spoofs business communication, companies are being pounded by attacks, according to a new report.
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Cloud’s Next Era Near, Cisco Says
The reorganization of computing into larger, more demand-responsive cloud-based data centers run by Google, Amazon Web Services, Rackspace and others is part of a shift in business that replaces transaction systems with “systems of interactions,” said Cisco Systems VP of cloud computing Lew Tucker on Wednesday in an address at the Cloud Connect 2013 conference, a UBM Tech event in Santa Clara, Calif.
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