Open Source

Cloud

Adobe embraces open source and developer community with General Availability announcement of Adobe Commerce Cloud

March 27, 2019 Mark Cox 1
Adobe’s $1.68 billion acquisition of Magento last summer brought with it a large channel, a huge developer ecosystem and a commitment to open source. All are embraced in the new Adobe Commerce Cloud, which is now in General Availability.

Networking

Lenovo adds open source networking portfolio through new partnership with Cumulus Networks

December 12, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Lenovo adds open source networking portfolio through new partnership with Cumulus Networks
Lenovo is the last major infrastructure vendor to join the roster of Cumulus partners. They will offer three ThinkSystem RackSwitch models with support for Cumulus Linux out of the gate, with more coming in 2019.

Artificial Intelligence

Changing AI market impacts SAS strategy and channel

November 15, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Changing AI market impacts SAS strategy and channel
SAS has reacted to the huge changes in the market around artificial intelligence, by rethinking how they approach the market, and how they sell into it.

Software

French ITIM vendor Centreon launches North American operation with Toronto office and 100 per cent channel strategy

September 20, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on French ITIM vendor Centreon launches North American operation with Toronto office and 100 per cent channel strategy
Centreon will be selling completely through channel partners in North America, seeing this as a key way to build up their presence in a crowded ITIM space filled with legacy vendors they believe can be toppled.

Cloud

Scality adds commercial version and new features to Zenko multi-cloud data controller in 1.0 release

September 19, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Scality adds commercial version and new features to Zenko multi-cloud data controller in 1.0 release
The new features include the addition of one-to-many replication capability to the Zenko data workflow engine, something that is valuable to the majority of cloud users who have more than one cloud.

Virtualization

IGEL sees strong momentum in IDC report showing Linux thin client growth

August 27, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on IGEL sees strong momentum in IDC report showing Linux thin client growth
IGEL will be demonstrating their software-defined endpoint computing solutions around two events this week, at the Open Source Summit in Vancouver, and right next to VMworld in Las Vegas, with the latter being something of a guerilla operation.

Networking

Dell EMC bringing new 100GbE 64-port fabric switch to market

August 15, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Dell EMC bringing new 100GbE 64-port fabric switch to market
The Dell EMC Z9264F-ON is the new version of the company’s core and aggregation switch, replacing the Z9100, and has twice the number of ports of its predecessor.

Software

Zimbra overcomes market challenges to post significant momentum

July 27, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Zimbra overcomes market challenges to post significant momentum
Open source email and collaboration platform Zimbra has revitalized itself in recent years, to move forward despite threatening clouds in the environment.

Cloud

Google commits to hybrid cloud vision with ‘truly revolutionary’ Cloud Services Platform

July 24, 2018 Mark Cox Comments Off on Google commits to hybrid cloud vision with ‘truly revolutionary’ Cloud Services Platform
At their Google Cloud Next 2018 event, in addition to their new platform, Google announced GKE On-Prem, a version of Google’s Google Kubernetes Engine for container management. They also announced Istio 1.0 is now available for production deployments, and the first service for it.

Susie Wee, vice president and CTO of DevNet at Cisco
Networking

Cisco adds DevNet Ecosystem Exchange as developer community continues to grow

June 11, 2018 Robert Dutt Comments Off on Cisco adds DevNet Ecosystem Exchange as developer community continues to grow
Cisco introduces DevNet Ecosystem Exchange to help expose software built around its platform and APIs as its developer community ranks rise past 500,000.