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By Rich Ptak IBM recently announced General Availability of IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator (SCO). This is the newest addition to the SmartCloud Foundation solution family of standards-based IT solutions for cloud-enabled data center environments, including private, public or hybrid implementation models. The family currently includes products that enable cloud environments with functions that range from monitoring [...]
By Rich Ptak and Bill Moran Oracle tends to be very aggressive in its attacks on competitors. Recently, Oracle made claims detailing why customers should prefer Oracle’s Exadata over IBM’s PureData and other IBM PureSystems. This paper examines and evaluates the claims Oracle makes that include IBM, IBM PureSystems and IBM PureData Systems. It presents [...]
Background HP has been working on a project called “Moonshot” for the last several years. After providing prototypes and some early installs in 2012, they are introducing the first part of the product line. Of course, the name of the project invites comparison with the attempts in the early 1960s to send a rocket to [...]
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