Today, the race for better, smaller, faster supercomputers includes an adjective that wasn't nearly as common five years ago: greener. In other words, more energy efficient. And, not incidentally, cheaper.
Guest Post I believe that this is the year when the enterprise will find its way to the cloud.
While a lot of small to medium sized businesses see their operational costs cut down by the public cloud, enterprises such as PepsiCo are still struggling to see the light.
OwnCloud pulled in $2.5 million in venture funding. The startup that positions itself as the open-source alternative to Box is the newest contender in the cloud storage wars.
Guest Post Here's how cloud users can match up with the right cloud infrastructure.
While companies like Amazon and Rackspace mightily tout the power of the public cloud, some large enterprises still aren’t sold. These enterprises like the option of an on-premise private cloud that gives them a bit more control and security.
Palo …
With so much talk about “big data” lately and data-focused companies like 10gen and Delphix recently grabbing large funding rounds, it’s a topic that won’t be going away any time soon. But what exactly is it and is there an …
Enterprise software and services player Autonomy‘s private cloud for businesses has now surpassed 50 petabytes to extend its lead as “the world’s largest private cloud,” the company announced this morning.
HP loudly announced its decision to buy Autonomy back in …
Social game maker Zynga has shifted 80 percent of its game traffic to its own private data center servers, known as the zCloud, the company revealed yesterday in its earnings call.
But it didn’t mention one of the prime benefits …
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Cloud storage is easy, but if you’ve got a lot of data, the costs can escalate quickly.
Case in point: DNAnexus, a startup that is storing DNA data so researchers can access and analyze it through a web interface, is …
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Recently, we were proud to publicly unveil the private cloud computing infrastructure that we use to scale our social games — infrastructure that we internally (and affectionately) call zCloud. zCloud leverages both our internal infrastructure components and our public cloud …
Dell announced today that it will acquire network security firm SecureWorks. This is another acquisition aimed at preventing its smaller and mid-sized business customers from migrating to public cloud providers like Amazon.
SecureWorks gives users with a number of tools …
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This post is written by VentureBeat’s Matt Marshall and was sponsored by small-business IT solutions provider Sutus.
At VentureBeat, we pride ourselves on being a scrappy startup while practicing old-fashioned journalism. That means we spend a lot of time on …
Cloud Engines, maker of the Pogoplug set-top appliance that turns external hard drives into private cloud servers, announced today that it has raised $15 million from Softbank Capital and Morgan Stanley.
The Pogoplug (pictured left) connects to any external hard …
Hewlett-Packard? They’re just a minor roadblock, according to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison.
After easily beating the expectations of many analysts with its most recent earnings report, Oracle is setting its sights on capturing market share and claiming HP’s spot of …
Dell has picked up cloud storage provider Compellent for $820 million after losing out on its bid for storage provider 3Par a few months ago to Hewlett-Packard.
Compellent, like 3Par, is a provider of technology and software for cloud-based storage. …
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If you’re tackling your company’s computing needs, you’re going to have to look …
Dell makes a good chunk of change off selling servers. The Texas-based company raked in $1.8 billion off server sales in the last quarter alone — which was up 20 percent from $1.5 billion the same quarter a year earlier.…
