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Alibaba Joins MySQL Scaling Effort

January 20th, 2015 (0)

The Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group has joined the WebScaleSQL initiative designed to create a set of common extensions aimed at scaling the open source MySQL relational database. Alibaba joins hyperscale Web application giants Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter ...

Intel Reports Record Revenues on Cloud Burst

January 16th, 2015 (0)

Intel said its datacenter business expanded during 2014 as the chip giant topped analysts' earnings and revenue forecasts. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich said Intel's annual revenues grew 6 percent during 2014 to a record total of $55.9 billion. Net ...

Pentagon Refines Cloud Security Rules

January 16th, 2015 (0)

The Defense Information Systems Agency released new cloud security guidelines this week aimed at establishing policies for adoption of commercial cloud services by the U.S. military. The security requirements are "designed to ensure that DoD can attain the full ...

Weekend Outage Puts Verizon Cloud on Defensive

January 15th, 2015 (0)

Verizon continues to take heat this week following what was apparently a planned 40-hour cloud outage last weekend that was attributed to a massive upgrade of its enterprise-class cloud infrastructure aimed at preventing future outages. Responding to growing pressure ...

Vendors Focus on Docker Security

January 15th, 2015 (0)

While its unclear so far whether Docker containers will make much of a dent this year in the datacenter, vendors continue to announce support for the open platform designed to automate the deployment of cloud applications in secure software ...

Interoperability Specs for IoT Advance

January 14th, 2015 (0)

The IoTivity open source software framework aimed at providing connectivity standards for the emerging Internet of Things has unveiled a "preview release" of a spec designed to ensure interoperability among devices and services across a range of industries. The ...

IT Spending Shifting to Hyperscale Datacenters

January 13th, 2015 (0)

The rising value of the U.S. dollar along with modest declines in demand for IT and telecommunications services will slow the global pace of IT spending in 2015, a market watcher is forecasting. Meanwhile, Gartner Inc. is forecasting a ...

Dell Drops Price on All-Flash Storage Arrays

January 13th, 2015 (0)

Dell Inc.'s storage unit rolled out a pair of all-flash storage array configurations this week priced as low $25,000 in a bid to overcome cost barriers that have hampered broad adoption of enterprise flash storage arrays. Dell said Tuesday ...

Patent Leader IBM Targets Cloud Tech

January 12th, 2015 (0)

IBM said Monday (January 12) it has been awarded more than 7,500 patents in 2014, including more than 3,000 related to cloud computing, data analytics and online security. The company also took credit for topping the annual list of ...

Big Data Benchmark Test Results Unveiled

January 9th, 2015 (0)

Initial benchmark results of for big data systems have been released in hopes of providing "verifiable performance, price-performance and availability metrics" for big data hardware and software, according to the head of the standards effort. Raghunath Nambiar, chairman of ...