Timothy Prickett Morgan

Fat and Fast C3 Server Slices Unveiled for AWS Cloud

November 14th, 2013 (0)

Rackspace Hosting just announced its own high-performance, flash-based server instances on its public cloud, and Amazon Web Services has answered with EC2 compute cloud instances that have the latest Intel Xeon processors, big gobs of memory, and flash storage ...

Amazon SVP Says Outlook for Enterprise Datacenters Is Cloudy

November 14th, 2013 (0)

Amazon Web Services doesn't see the world the same way that most system makers do, Andy Jassy, senior vice president of the cloud computing arm of the retailing giant, explained in his keynote address at the re:Invent conference in ...

Prototype Open Compute Switches Revealed

November 13th, 2013 (0)

The Open Compute Project started by Facebook to do open source hardware may have to change its name soon, now that its Networking project to disaggregate switches and create an open ecosystem of hardware and software components is picking ...

Regional Datacenter Bracing for 40GbE Demand

November 13th, 2013 (0)

Datachambers, a datacenter operator that offers co-location and hosting services across North Carolina, has tapped Extreme Networks to be its Ethernet switch provider as part of a build out of its operations. The move displaces gear by Cisco Systems. ...

Rackspace Profits Squeezed by Cloud Competition

November 12th, 2013 (0)

Number two has to try harder, and it is not easy being the second-largest public cloud operator behind Amazon Web Services. This is why Rackspace Hosting continues to innovate with its hardware and software infrastructure and is ramping up ...

Invisible OpenCL and APU Chips Drive Acceleration

November 11th, 2013 (0)

AMD has some stiff competition in the server space. The company thinks that the combination of CPUs and GPUs together, what it calls Accelerated Processing Units (APU), has a place in the datacenter. And it is fostering the software ...

Nokia Dev Cloud Will Swell to 100K Cores

November 11th, 2013 (0)

Be careful about giving easy access to computing. You may end up with far more demand than you planned. This is precisely the position that the IT department supporting the application development infrastructure at Nokia Solutions and Networks is ...

Cluster Sizes Reveal Hadoop Maturity Curve

November 8th, 2013 (0)

If you want to get a rough sense of how mature a Hadoop installation is, all you need to do is count the server nodes. The largest Hadoop clusters in the world are at Internet companies and have maybe ...

LinkedIn Copes with Server Explosion with Revved Up CFEngine

November 7th, 2013 (0)

The dream of every Internet startup is for an idea to take off and go mainstream. This is precisely the nightmare of every system administrator that works at these fast-growing companies. Luckily, most of them are adept at using ...

Cisco Bakes SDN Into Switch Chips

November 7th, 2013 (0)

Cisco Systems is still the dominant supplier of switches and routers in the datacenter, but upstarts like Arista Networks and Juniper Networks have done well selling faster switches in flatter networks. Now it is Cisco's turn to push back, ...

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