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Wednesday, July 11th, 2018
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Event |
| 6:26p |
Survey: Companies Expect to Buy More On-Prem Data Center Gear
Cloud giants may be growing nicely, but there’s still a lot of money to be made in enterprise hardware
• Top IT folks at most of the 151 North American organizations with their own data centers surveyed recently by IHS Markit expect to at least double the amount of physical servers in their data centers by 2019
• Many expect to also stock up on everything from storage, switches, and routers to security appliances, load balancers, and WAN optimization appliances
• The uptick in on-premises data center spend is driven by companies’ need to modernize infrastructure to support increasingly digital business | | 6:35p |
The Future of Machine Learning at the Edge
As demand for data brought on by machine learning and AI is growing exponentially, it is pushing IT environments toward a decentralized hybrid computing ecosystem. | | 8:10p |
Tech Companies Jockey as Pentagon Says Cloud Contract Coming
The Pentagon is now more than a month behind its previously set deadline to issue a request for proposals for a multibillion-dollar cloud computing contract
• The contract, known as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud, or JEDI, is highly sought by the biggest cloud providers, who are all jockeying to lock in the federal business
• Pentagon's new CIO, Dana Deasy, said Wednesday that the final RFP isn't far off, Bloomberg reported, adding that the Defense Department should't worry about arbitrary deadlines to get it out | | 8:23p |
Latest Xen Hypervisor Arrives Late, but Greatly Improved
The latest and greatest version of the open source Xen hypervisor includes leaner code, better performance, and security enhancements under the hood. |
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