Cloud Computing: Interop 2014 – 8 Hot Technologies

Grazed from InformationWeek.  Author: Thomas Claburn.

Interop Las Vegas opens Monday at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center amid a time of accelerating change. Change has been a constant in the technology industry, but the pace of change seems to keep getting faster, as futurist Ray Kurzweil argued in 2001.

Much of the recent change has been driven by IT trends like the shift toward mobile devices, cloud computing, and the networking of everything. That and the need to store petabytes of cat videos, if you’ll pardon the pun.  Then there’s the fact that software, as Marc Andreessen once put it, is eating the world…


In his keynote presentation at the conference, Pat Gelsinger, CEO of VMware, plans to highlight how virtualization and cloud computing have led software-defined datacenters to overshadow hardware-defined facilities, a shift he characterizes as "tectonic."…

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