Scale-Out Platform Emerges With Foxconn Backing
Chinese electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn is among the early investors in the enterprise infrastructure platform developer DriveScale Inc. Emerging from stealth mode this week, DriveScale Inc. announced a $15 ...Full Article
Google-Like IT Push Gets Google Backing
The scrappy startup CoreOs appears to be the application container platform of choice for delivering Google-like cloud infrastructure to enterprises. San Francisco-based CoreOS, developer of an application container platform ...Full Article
Hyperconverged Platforms Poised for Takeoff
It's all coming together in the datacenter, according to a new industry forecast detailing what it calls hyperconverged integrated systems, or HCIS. Market research Gartner Inc. predicts the booming ...Full Article
Alliance Coalesces Around Mesosphere Platform
The datacenter operating system movement continues to gather momentum with the announcement by Apache Mesos developer Mesosphere of a broad alliance backing the beta release of an all-encompassing platform ...Full Article
Puppet Pulls Strings on Expansion Plans, Makeover
IT automation specialist Puppet Labs is expanding its operations, launching the latest version of its flagship platform and shortening its name: Puppet Labs is now known simply as Puppet. ...Full Article
In OpenPOWER Play, IBM and Google Make Hyperscale Waves at Foundation Summit
OpenPOWER Foundation, the mostly IBM-driven effort to create an alternative architecture to Intel x86, took a major step forward today with the announcement of a joint effort by Google ...Full Article
With Launch of Xeon ‘Broadwell’ Intel’s Advanced Scale Framework Coming into Focus
Intel has talked publicly for more than a year about its next-gen Scalable System Framework (SSF), an integrated compilation of processor, fabric, storage and memory technologies Intel says will ...Full Article
HPE, Microsoft Back Mesosphere’s Datacenter OS
Mesosphere, the datacenter operating system startup working at the nexus of hyper-scale application development and cloud-based delivery of micro-services, announced a $73.5 million "strategic" investment round led by Hewlett ...Full Article
Intel, Facebook Accelerate Datacenters With FPGAs
Intel Corp.'s plan to combine its next Xeon processor with a batch of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) along with ongoing collaboration with Facebook aims to accelerate a growing ...Full Article
ARM Scales Chips for Datacenters, HPC
ARM Ltd., the U.K. chip design and licensing vendor, is targeting datacenters and processors intended for high-performance computing in a chip process technology deal with the world's largest chip ...Full Article
