HPE Partners with Hedvig For Hybrid Cloud Storage Solution
Hedvig, the company modernizing storage and accelerating enterprise adoption of private and hybrid clouds, today bundled a solution with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The Hedvig Distributed Storage Platform combines Hedvig software-defined storage with HPE Apollo 4200 servers and is available in 48- and 96-terabyte configurations. The pretested, validated solution is a rack-scale infrastructure designed for private, hybrid, and multi-datacenter cloud solutions. Joint customers benefit from improved time-to-market and lower the costs associated with data-driven, digital business services.
Cloud Computing ‘As A Service’ Market Forecast to Reach $53.3bn by 2021
The cloud computing ‘as a service’ (CCaaS) market is expected to grow from $22.2bn in revenue in 2016 to $53.3bn in 2021, according to the latest update from 451 Research’s Cloud Computing Market Monitor service. The service presents data generated via a bottom-up analysis of 432 vendors that participate across the 14 cloud CaaS segments we track.
Survey on Software-Defined Storage, Hyperconverged and Cloud Storage – DataCore
DataCore Software Corporation announced the results of its sixth annual survey (registration rquired), designed to explore the impact of major software-driven storage deployments within organizations across the globe.
The survey distills the positive expectations, disappointments, and experiences of 426 IT professionals who are currently using or evaluating software-defined storage (SDS), hyperconverged and cloud storage to solve critical storage challenges. The results yielded surprising insights from a cross-section of industries over a wide range of workloads.
Cloudera’s PaaS Targets Big Data Workloads Running in the Cloud
Enterprise cloud company Cloudera’s new Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) aims to make it easier to run big data workloads in the cloud.
The product, Altus, is initially available on Amazon Web Services (AWS) but will expand to support other public clouds including Microsoft Azure, the company said.
Cisco and NetApp Invest in Datos IO
Datos IO, Inc. announced that Cisco Investments and NetApp, Inc. have become strategic investors in the company.
Datos IO will use the proceeds of this investment to further its application-centric approach that provides customers with backup storage efficiency and rich data management services at a granular level. Enterprises can intelligently protect and move their traditional and third platform applications either on-premise or back and forth between public clouds or multi-cloud environments.
55% of Organizations Using Hybrid Storage Systems, 2% Entirely All-Flash Data Center
Organizations are adopting more virtualized workloads and flash storage in hybrid data center environments, according to the 2017 State of Storage in Virtualization report released by ActualTech Media LLC and Tegile Systems, Inc.
Docker Partners with Cisco, HPE, Avanade and Microsoft to Make Legacy Apps Ready for Hybrid Clouds in Five Days
Docker today announced a new Modernize Traditional Applications (MTA) Program that enables enterprise IT organizations to modernize legacy applications, transforming them in hybrid cloud deployments while simultaneously realizing substantial savings in their total cost of ownership (TCO). In partnership with Avanade, Cisco, HPE and Microsoft, Docker is helping organizations like Northern Trust, a leading financial services firm, to make existing applications highly secure; more efficient to maintain, deploy and run; and portable to any infrastructure – cloud, hybrid and on-premises.
WW IT Infrastructure for Public Cloud Deployments Up 15% Y/Y in 2017 – IDC
According to a new forecast from the International Data Corporation’s Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker, total spending on IT infrastructure products (server, enterprise storage, and Ethernet switches) for deployment in cloud environments will increase 15.3% year over year in 2017 to $41.7 billion.
Huawei Invests $1 Billion in Public Cloud Platform
Huawei is evolving its cloud business by investing in a public cloud platform. During the company’s annual global analyst summit in Shenzhen, China, this week, Eric Xu, Huawei’s rotating CEO, said the company is committed to working with operators on their cloud services as well as building Huawei’s own public cloud.
Cloudera Files for IPO With $261 Million in Annual Revenue
Big-data software company Cloudera Inc. filed paperwork to go public on Friday, revealing a business that is growing quickly but possibly not fast enough to deliver gains to its big investor Intel Corp.