Open Wide and Say Ahh!

I’ve been immersed in “Open” for the last two weeks here in Boston, attending both Red Hat Summit 2017 and then OpenStack Summit. There are quite a few things worth paying attention to, especially if you are an enterprise IT shop still wondering how your inevitable cloud (and services) transformation is really going to play out, including accelerating application migration to containers and the rise of platform Management as a Service.

First, let’s talk about what’s new with Red Hat (RH).  As we’ve noted before, RH is an impressive company.

Nutanix is massively expanding its software-only ecosystem

Nutanix is expanding its presence as a software defined leader in the fast-growing enterprise private/hybrid cloud computing solution provider market.

VMware HCI momentum continues with vSAN 6.6 release!

With the recent release of vSAN 6.6, the maturity of the product and customer momentum shined through.

Actual Hybrid of Enterprise Storage and Public Cloud? Oracle creates a Cloud Converged System

What’s a Cloud Converged system? It is really what us naive people thought hybrid storage was all about all along.  Yet until now no high performance enterprise class storage ever actually delivered it.  But now, Oracle’s latest ZFS Storage Appliance, the ZS5, comes natively integrated with Oracle Cloud storage. What does that mean? On-premise ZS5 Storage Object pools now extend organically into Oracle Cloud storage (which is also made up of ZS storage) - no gateway or third party software required.

IBM Cloud Object Storage Provides a Strong Data Foundation for Modern Healthcare

The healthcare industry is facing tremendous data challenges as the medical community evolves to support rapid growth in digital medical imaging, new government regulations and improvements in patient care.

Video: Why Facebook and the NSA love the graph database

Senior Analyst & Consultant Mike Matchett dives into graph databases, and Why Facebook and the NSA love them.