Jamie Thomas, general manager of storage and software-defined systems at IBM, has said that the company’s storage business will leverage a software-defined model for its portfolio in order to facilitate enterprise data storage flexibility and interoperability. IBM wants this new model to meet data analytics and storage needs amid a continuously growing volume of data that results from technology advancements in […] More

Siemens Energy has won a contract to supply 72 G4 series wind turbines to Vattenfall’s new Sandbank renewable energy project off the North Sea in Germany. The work will include joint maintenance of the Swedish power company’s DanTysk wind farm in the same area for five years, a shared servicing plan designed to target efficiency […] More

IBM has partnered with Applied Communication Sciences and AT&T to develop a technology that aims to reduce the provisioning time for cloud computing systems from days to seconds. The companies built the cloud-based architecture through a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s CORONET program, IBM said Tuesday. DARPA aims for the industry team to commercial the […] More

Computer Sciences Corp. will offer three new services to enterprise and public sector customers as part of the company’s work to expand its cloud cybersecurity portfolio, CSC said Tuesday. CSC’s Cloud Cybersecurity Services program works to offer tools from vendors in an effort to help customers migrate into cloud environments and the company will help manage […] More

IBM has released a new suite of software-defined storage technology products for accessing and processing enterprise data in any form and from any source as the company aims to help businesses manage large volumes of data. “Digital information is growing at such a rapid rate and in such dramatic volumes that traditional storage systems used to […] More

CloudBees has moved to extend the reach of its continuous delivery platform by joining the Verizon cloud engine, Virtualization Review reported Wednesday. John Waters writes the CloudBees delivery platform is built for developers to deploy applications and update Web and mobile apps. The Belgium-based company offers the DEV@cloud service for developers to test apps in […] More

Cisco has launched the Evolved Services Platform and two virtual service modules in an effort to support the virtualization strategies of service providers for the Internet of Everything. The company intends for the ESP to help address concerns regarding virtualization on network infrastructure and operations, Cisco said Tuesday. “Service providers globally view virtualization not just to reduce […] More

Red Hat and Hortonworks have collaborated to develop a big data analytics product that is intended to combine Apache Hadoop with open hybrid cloud technology. The companies plan to provide more information on the alliance during a joint press conference webcast on Tuesday, Red Hat and Hortonworks said Monday. “Data – specifically data running processed with […] More

NTT Communications has moved to deploy Oracle’s engineered systems and in-memory products on its network monitoring system offering in an effort to grow NTT’s network traffic and data analysis technologies. Oracle’s Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Exadata Database Machine, Coherence and Event Processing systems have been integrated into NTT Communications’ network and predictive failure detection services, Oracle […] More

Red Hat named Autonomic Resources as its partner of the year award in the small/medium system integrator category during the Red Hat North America Partner Conference in Scottsdale, Ariz. Autonomic won the award for its SI public sector capabilities, highlighting its platform-as-a-service ARCWRX, solution, the company announced Wednesday. The ARCWRX was based on Red Hat’s […] More