If the third quarter told us anything, it was that IT M&A activity is alive and well, particularly in the big…
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VMware’s Cloudy Ambitions: Can It Repeat Hypervisor Success?
So despite its progressive vision, VMware’s days of 80 percent market share will be gone.
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Infrastructure Overview, Q2 2010
The first quarter of 2010 was all about established vendors making their plays in emerging fields like cloud computing, but the…
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Report: NoSQL Databases – Providing Extreme Scale and Flexibility
The goal of this report is to explain the role of NoSQL databases within the context of the database market in…
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Defining Internal Cloud Options: From Appistry to VMware
Internal clouds are real and they're here, but many efforts are still in their early days. The problem is that transitioning…
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CA’s Cloud Computing Plans Explained
It's taken a full year and upward of $700 million in acquisitions, but CA Technologies (yes, it's a new moniker) finally…
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Big Data Marketplaces Put a Price on Finding Patterns
A decade ago, scientists would collect data over a period of years, upload that data to a supercomputer, then wait for…
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Report: Evolution of The Private Cloud
Every 15 years or so, the IT world undergoes a tectonic shift. Technological forces collide and grind against one another, creating…
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Infrastructure Market Overview, Q1 2010
When we're discussing cutting-edge topics like cloud computing and web infrastructure, it is easy to let startups and niche vendors dominate…
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Microsoft Azure: What It Is, What It Costs and Who Should Care
An event more than a year in the making, Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud-computing offering is finally available to the public. The…
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Report: Delivering Content in the Cloud
The growing ubiquity of the Internet is having a major influence on the video and software industries, which are using it…
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In Q4, Data Centers, Not the Cloud, Were the Big Story
Of all the infrastructure trends during the fourth quarter, the biggest might be the changing shape of the data center market.…
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In Q3, Cloud Computing Grew, Bringing Hardware & Services With It
Growing maturity in the cloud computing market was evident during the third quarter, with a focus on standards, APIs and more…
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Amazon’s Virtual Private Cloud: What’s New, What’s Next
On Aug. 26, 2009, Amazon announced a new initiative: the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Essentially, the new service enables a…
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Report: The Future of Data Center Storage
The last decade has seen tremendous evolution and innovation in storage array technology — from the introduction of thin provisioning and…
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What VMware’s SpringSource Acquisition Means for Microsoft
On Aug. 10, 2009, VMware announced a definitive agreement to acquire privately held open source Java application framework and platform developer…
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Second Quarter 2009 in Review: Infrastructure
If an IT trend is legitimate when the old guard, which makes plenty of money selling traditional solutions to risk-averse customers,…
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Bringing Moore’s Law to the Data Storage Market
Flash solid-state drives (SSD) will enable a once-in-a-decade improvement in storage price-performance. Flash SSDs sit between the CPU main memory and…
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De-Duplicating the Storage Industry
Companies are rolling out storage efficiency technology as fast as they can since that technology helps delay and avoid additional capital…
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Social Media in the Enterprise
The enterprise social software market is emerging as one of the fastest growing areas of enterprise applications. As a young market…
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Will Storage Go the Way of The Server?
The storage industry is on the cusp of the biggest structural change since networked storage began to substitute for direct-attached storage…
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VMware’s vSphere4 Announcement: A Critical Perspective
VMware just announced a major refresh of its server virtualization product line, renamed vSphere4. VMware vSphere 4 aims to aggregate and…
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Infrastructure Wrap-up: Q1 2009
The first quarter of 2009 went pretty much as planned in the cloud computing and web infrastructure market. The sector continued…
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