Author: Kimanthi Sammy

Microsoft becomes Platinum member of Open Infrastructure Foundation

Microsoft becomes Platinum member of Open Infrastructure Foundation

OpenStack, the open-source, IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) cloud company related to projects like Airship (open-source tools for cloud provisioning) and Zuul (the Ansible-based Continous Integration (CI) system), has for years been stuck between what Gartner calls the Trough of Disillusionment ... Read more

date3 years ago
DigitialOcean acquires Nimbella for its serverless capabilities

DigitialOcean acquires Nimbella for its serverless capabilities

Cloud infrastructure company DigitalOcean has acquired Nimbella, a startup that has only been in operation for three years, for an undisclosed sum. Nimbella set out to make multi-cloud serverless software development easier. DigitalOcean is best known for offering an IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-se... Read more

date3 years ago
Lenovo offers everything-as-a-service through its TruScale brand

Lenovo offers everything-as-a-service through its TruScale brand

Lenovo announced it plans to offer its entire portfolio as a service. The TruScale brand is Lenovo's vehicle, to push to provide everything as a service from the devices in your pocket to the cloud, all under one contract. The new offering combines all the existing as-a-service options offered b... Read more

date3 years ago
VMware no longer plans to support the ‘Cheese Grater’ Mac Pro

VMware no longer plans to support the ‘Cheese Grater’ Mac Pro

VMware had an odd announcement to make; it does not plan to support ESXi running on Apple’s 2019 Mac Pro. VMware said it could not comment on future hardware enablement for its ESXi platform but felt that an update was needed for customers who have been asking about support for the Apple 2019 ... Read more

date3 years ago
Open source has the potential to boost the EU economy

Open source has the potential to boost the EU economy

The European Commission (EC) has released a new report that reveals the impact open-source software (OSS) and open-source hardware (OSH) can have on the European Union economy. The report is titled "The Impact of Open Source Software and Hardware on technological dependencies, competitiveness and i... Read more

date3 years ago
NetApp brings NVMe over TCP to ONTAP via the iSCSI upgrade path

NetApp brings NVMe over TCP to ONTAP via the iSCSI upgrade path

NetApp is upgrading its accelerated storage access for its iSCSI-using FAS and AFF array customers by adding fast NVMe-over-TCP access to ONTAP for iSCSI users in general. NVMe-over-TCP allows remote direct memory access for data using an Ethernet TCP link. The idea to use NVMe like this (extend... Read more

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