News SQL Server Runs Faster on Azure Cloud VMs than AWS EC2, Report Says By David Ramel 12/05/2019 A new report from research firm GigaOm indicated that SQL Server runs faster on virtual machines on Micrososft’s Azure cloud than on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) compute instances (EC2). Sponsored by Microsoft, GigaOm’s report compared throughput […]
VMware, Silver Peak Named ‘Leaders’ in WAN Edge Infrastructure Research Report
News VMware, Silver Peak Named ‘Leaders’ in WAN Edge Infrastructure Research Report By David Ramel 12/04/2019 VMware and Silver Peak were the only vendors to be named in the “Leaders” section of research firm Gartner Inc.’s latest Magic Quadrant report on WAN edge infrastructure. To define exactly what’s being researched, the report says “Wide-area network […]
Azure Container Startup Time Decreased by New ‘Project Teleport’
News Azure Container Startup Time Decreased by New ‘Project Teleport’ By Scott Bekker 11/21/2019 Project Teleport was created to decrease the startup time of containers on the Azure cloud platform, being especially useful in serverless environments. It’s headed by Steve Lasker, program manager for Azure Container Registries at Microsoft, who says, “Instancing a custom environment […]
IBM Unveils New Open Source Tools for Kubernetes
News IBM Unveils New Open Source Tools for Kubernetes By John K. Waters 11/18/2019 IBM today added two new open-source tools to the Kubernetes ecosystem: Kui, which is designed to address the “chunky experience” developers face working in hybrid multi-cloud deployments; and Iter8, a new Istio ecosystem tool designed to help developers benefit from rich […]
Meriplex Teams with Dell EMC for VMware-Powered SD-WAN Solution
News Meriplex Teams with Dell EMC for VMware-Powered SD-WAN Solution By David Ramel 11/15/2019 Meriplex Communications, a software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) solutions provider, is teaming up with Dell EMC for a new VMware-powered offering. The Houston-based company said the turnkey solution — a Dell EMC SD-WAN delivered by Meriplex — can increase network uptime and […]
Nasuni Adding AI to Cloud File Services Platform
News Nasuni Adding AI to Cloud File Services Platform By Richard Seeley 11/06/2019 Boston-based Nasuni Corp. provides artificial intelligence (AI) and search analytics for unstructured data in its file services platform for network attached storage (NAS) infrastructure, according to a recent announcement. The company also touted new cloud migration capabilities that it said customers will […]
Forecast: AI, IoT and 5G Will Drive Network Analytics Market in Next 4 Years
News Forecast: AI, IoT and 5G Will Drive Network Analytics Market in Next 4 Years By Richard Seeley 11/06/2019 Spending on network analytics, including AI based products, is predicted to more than double from $1.4 Billion this year to $3.6 billion by 2024, according to a new forecast recently released by Dublin, Ireland-based Research and […]
Microsoft Announces Azure Arc for Mixed AWS, Google Cloud and Azure Workloads
News Microsoft Announces Azure Arc for Mixed AWS, Google Cloud and Azure Workloads By Becky Nagel 11/05/2019 On Monday at its Ignite 2019 conference in Orlando, Fla., Microsoft announced Azure Arc, a new tool that lets enterprises use Azure to manage their data on the Azure cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS) or the Google Cloud […]
Extreme Networks Announces AI-Boosted Cloud Management Application
News Extreme Networks Announces AI-Boosted Cloud Management Application By David Ramel 10/23/2019 Cloud networking company Extreme Networks announced ExtremeCloud IQ, which it claims to be the first end-to-end cloud management application utilizing machine learning and artificial intelligence to boost enterpise benefits. Those benefits said to be provided by ExtremeCloud IQ — which can run on […]
SAP Taps Azure for Customer On-Premises-to-Cloud Migrations
News SAP Taps Azure for Customer On-Premises-to-Cloud Migrations By David Ramel 10/23/2019 Enterprise application software specialist SAP announced a partnership with Microsoft to move customers’ on-premises implementations to the Azure cloud. The pact targets customers using SAP ERP (enterprise resource planning) and SAP S/4HANA, an ERP product optimized for the company’s in-memory HANA database. Dubbed […]