The usual suspects Amazon and VMware made significant announcements in cloud in the third quarter, while Hadoop remained the talk of the town in big data. Emerging trends in software-defined networking and flash storage stirred up lots of M&A and venture investment in the quarter. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
As it preps its go-to-market plans, the semi-stealthy startup brings another former Cisco product whiz aboard to lead engineering. Lele Nardin spent 15 years at the networking leader and was most recently SVP of engineering at Ericsson Silicon Valley. Read more »
If there was any doubt that software-defined networking (SDN) expertise is a hot ticket, Oracle’s planned acquisition of Xsigo, coming on the heels of VMware’s blockbuster $1.26 billion buy of Nicira, should erase it once and for all. Read more »
Nicira, the not-so-stealthy startup working in the network virtualization space was “outed” Monday by the New York Times as a secret startup pursuing the next hot trend in computing. But the article overstated Nicira’s secretiveness and perhaps its role as network virtualization hits the mainstream. Read more »
Online backup companies know that once you pay for the painstaking initial data dump, you’ll likely stay a customer long-term, because of convenience. But could unique features and attractive pricing convince you to switch? Today we turn to Backblaze and CrashPlan to find out. Read more »
My post last week about merging Google Contacts generated a related question from Dave Zatz, because although he’s very content with Yahoo!for mail and contacts, he’s interested in using Google Calendar for events on his iPhone. Surely you can’t mix and match among these on a […] Read more »
Before virtualization, when it came to corporate computing, companies kept their data in a box. When someone needed the data, a request was sent out over the network and routed to that box. The information was then sent back over the same path. But as boxes ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
