VMware have announced in a blog post (Leading our Industry into a Software-Defined Future with Strategic M&A) that they are acquiring VeloCloud. They have also issued the obligatory press-release to…
Dell’Oro Group: SD-WAN Market to Grow 33% Over Next 5 Years
Dell'Oro Group analysts in the latest SD-WAN report are expecting growth of 33% over the next 5 years for SD-WAN. Previous issues of the report indicated that in 2016 the…
SDxCentral: VMware offloads vCloud Air to Europe’s OVH
SDxCentral are reporting that VMware have announced that OVH are buying the vCloud Air business. This in part makes sense, as although VMware want to be able to provide hybrid…
RESTful Server Management with some Redfish
Managing servers is hard enough. Doing it with a rack of servers is more difficult. Maintaining a data centre full of servers can provide a significant challenge. There are lots…
Dell completes Force 10 networks acquisition
As noted in the previous post (Dell intends to acquire Force10 networks), Dell yesterday completed the acquisition of Force10networks. Dell Press Release on the completion of the Acquisition of Data…
A brief history of the IBM PC, thirty years on.
30 years ago today, a new office automation device was officially launched by IBM at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York. August 12, 1981, marked the launch of the…
Dell intends to acquire Force10 networks
So another acquisition by a computer systems supplier of a networking infrastructure company. This trend started when Compaq acquired Thomas Conrad back in 1995, and is continuing today with the…