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News Desk Editor

Microsoft Accelerates Datacenter With FPGAs

February 23rd, 2015 (0)

Microsoft researchers who have for several years been migrating its software cloud services onto programmable hardware are reporting an advance in high-end machine learning the company hopes will boost datacenter processing power. In a white paper released Monday (Feb. ...

Apache Mesos Emerges as Datacenter OS

February 23rd, 2015 (0)

The rise of Linux container technology as a means of packaging and running web applications is creating an opening for open source software needed to distribute and orchestrate app containers across datacenters. Hence, the emerging ecosystem around Apache Mesos ...

Industrial Sector Seen Leading the IoT Shift

February 20th, 2015 (0)

With networking companies and device makers jumping on the Internet of Things bandwagon, market drivers like expanding capacity via virtualized datacenters and the implementation of new standards like IPv6 are laying the groundwork for what could eventually become the ...

Google Outage Traced to Network Glitch

February 20th, 2015 (0)

Google has tentatively traced the cause of a roughly two-hour global cloud outage to an internal software issue related to its virtual network traffic routing. The Google Compute Engine public cloud outage commenced at 10:40 p.m. Pacific time on ...

HP Targets Web-Scale Datacenters With New Switches

February 19th, 2015 (0)

As cloud datacenters expand to handle web-scale workloads, network vendors like Hewlett-Packard and Cisco System are placing more emphasis on the plumbing required to handle cloud and big data workloads. The latest example comes from HP, which announced a ...

Cloud-Based GPU Accelerators Crunch Financials

February 18th, 2015 (0)

Graphics accelerators have been used over the last several years as a complement to or replacement for standard CPUs. GPU leaders like Nvidia have pushed the trend, arguing that graphics processors have advanced to the point where they can ...

Intel’s IT Efforts Yield $350M in New Revenue

February 18th, 2015 (0)

The world's largest chipmaker says it leveraged components of the IT infrastructure it supplies for others to generate $350 million in revenues during 2014, according to the company's annual IT business review. The company, which employs 106,000 full-time workers ...

OpenStack Platform Release Builds on Ceph

February 17th, 2015 (0)

Red Hat's latest OpenStack Platform release is said to expand the virtual machine storage capabilities of Ceph storage software the open source software leader acquired last year. The company announced general availability on February 17 of its Red Hat ...

Violin Memory Fiddles With Primary Storage

February 17th, 2015 (0)

The push to elevate all-flash arrays as the primary storage technology of choice got a boost this week from Violin Memory Inc., which rolled out two new all-flash arrays designed to handle primary storage and active workloads at a ...

Survey Sees Continuing Datacenter Growth

February 13th, 2015 (0)

The steady transition of digital businesses to the cloud is driving robust growth in the U.S. datacenter market, with Dallas and the Northern Virginia areas leading the way in 2014 as each market attracted nearly 40 megawatts of new ...