Nutanix, HPE Partner on Private Cloud Service and Hyperconverged Appliances

HPE GreenLake will offer a pay-as-you-go private cloud service that runs on Nutanix’s Enterprise Cloud OS software.
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Packet Rolls Out Dollar-an-Hour Ampere-Based Arm Cloud Servers

Ampere claims Packet’s bare-metal eMAG servers are up to four times faster than AWS’s Graviton Arm instances.
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VMware’s SDN Strategy Now Revolves Around Hybrid and Multi-Cloud

“This is the point in time when NSX-T becomes our lead platform for net new opportunities.”
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Google's On-Prem Data Center Software for Hybrid Cloud Now in Beta

Configuration management added in latest version of Cloud Services Platform, which differentiates by being able to run on customers’ existing hardware.
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IBM Research Wants to Have Next-Gen AI Chips Ready When Watson Needs Them

The company's researchers expect to improve AI compute performance by 1,000 times over the next 10 years.
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Cumulus and Nutanix Team Up to Simplify Hyperconverged Infrastructure Networking

The partnership is the latest in a series of moves by HCI vendors to integrate networking into their solutions.
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AWS Is Coming to Enterprise Data Centers, With or Without VMware

In a departure from its previous strategy, AWS is going for the on-prem data center market. What does the move mean for its partnership with VMware?
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Enlisting Machine Learning to Fight Data Center Outages

How companies old and new are integrating machine learning in data center management tools to improve data center availability.
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How Dropbox Re-architected Its Cloud to Use Higher-Density Storage

The team wrote new software and re-designed hardware to dramatically accelerate SMR-drive performance.
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Nutanix Adds SDN to Its Hyperconverged Infrastructure

Also rolls out database deployment easy-button and public cloud management tool at its .Next conference
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Past OpenStack Darling Mirantis Rehires Former CEO to Lead New Cloud Strategy

After its latest pivot, the company ventures beyond OpenStack, into the ever more competitive multi-cloud world.
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Juniper Says Its Bots are a Step Toward a "Self-Driving Network"

Autonomous networks can configure, monitor, and manage themselves automatically, with little human intervention.
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IBM Designs a “Performance Beast” for AI

Powered by its latest Power9 chip and new bandwidth highways, the AC922 is IBM’s latest and most powerful hardware for HPC and AI.
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After Decade of Data Center Consolidation, US States Report Mixed Success

While about half of state governments have completed consolidation, many still have a long way to go.
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VMware and AWS Say Move Your DR Data Center to the Cloud

The two partners are fleshing out their enterprise hybrid cloud story.
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Rackspace and HPE Will Sell On-Prem Private Cloud as a Service

Will install, manage pay-as-you-go OpenStack cloud in data center of client’s choice
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