The difference between converged and hyper-converged is becoming less clear cut. My advice is to beware of hyper-converged infrastructure products with “HCI” in their names. They may not be hyper-converged. NetApp HCI is a converged infrastructure that combines separate servers and SolidFire flash storage. Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Nimble Storage dHCI is a similar setup, except […]

Teradata said its Vantage analytics platform will be available on Google Cloud Platform, in a move that makes its software available on all three major cloud providers. Teradata also updated its Vantage platform to focus on customer experience as well as business analysts. Vantage, which aims to unify analytics, data lakes, and data warehouses, was […]

Google Cloud has won a “seven figure” contract with the US Department of Defense’s Innovation Unit to help it detect and respond to cyber threats. Google Cloud said the deal will allow the Innovation Unit to run applications across platforms using Anthos – including Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure – while being […]