Take a Network Break! Dell and EMC dominate this week’s discussion as we dig through the details of this intriguing acquisition.
We cover a story from Wired that calls out several tech giants as the walking dead–perhaps prematurely. We also examine an email from HP CEO Meg Whitman that outlines the merger challenges Dell and EMC will face.
But Dell/EMC isn’t the thing happening in tech. Intel’s quarterly results show how the cloud and the data center is becoming more essential to the chipmaker. And Wal-Mart announces that it’s contributing its cloud migration software to the open-source community to help battle cloud lock-in.
Meanwhile, on the open networking front, BT says OpenStack may not have everything BT needs, but where else is BT going to go? And we look at the potential outcomes for ONOS, an open-source SDN controller, joining Linux Foundation, which already hosts the OpenDaylight SDN controller.
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Show Notes:
Diving Into Dell And EMC (And VMware)
Dell. EMC. HP. Cisco. These Tech Giants Are the Walking Dead – Wired
HP CEO Meg Whitman memo to employees on Dell-EMC buyout – SiliconANGLE
Dude You re Getting An EMC – Storagebod
Stacking Chips In The Cloud
Intel s Results Reflect Move to Cloud Computing – NY Times
Wal-Mart Goes Open Source
Wal-Mart Takes Aim at Cloud Lock-In – NY Times
WalmartLabs is releasing OneOps cloud technology to the world as open source – Walmart Labs
BT Berates OpenStack
BT Threatens to Ditch OpenStack – Light Reading
ONOS: Is Assimilation On The Horizon?
Neela Jacques on OpenDaylight and ONOS co-existing – OpenDaylight