VCE Study Makes Case for Converged IT
A new market survey underscores the advantages of converged IT infrastructure as a means of achieving capacity flexibility as well as a way to reduce cost while speeding the ...Full Article
Enterprises Embrace Obama’s HPC Moon Shot
Could President Barack Obama's executive order establishing the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) do for high performance computing what President John F. Kennedy's proclamation about landing on the moon do ...Full Article
Mirantis, CoreOS Marry OpenStack With Containers
Capitalizing on momentum generated by the release of a production-ready container cluster manager, OpenStack vendor Mirantis and hyperscale Linux developer CoreOS are combining the former's OpenStack distribution with the ...Full Article
GE Takes on Amazon in IoT with Predix Cloud
As part of its effort to provide customers with complete Internet of Things solutions, GE enhanced its Predix IoT platform to include infrastructure-as-a-service. The new Predix Cloud will leverage ...Full Article
Toshiba, SanDisk Ready High-Density Flash
Flash memory joint venture partners SanDisk Corp. and Toshiba have released the production schedule for a new generation flash device destined for ultra-high density storage devices. SanDisk and Toshiba ...Full Article
Valerie Plame: The Spy Who Came in to the Code
Since her cover was famously blown, former covert CIA operative Valerie Plame is more openly protecting the country's digital assets. In May, the author and anti-nuclear activist joined the ...Full Article
Ex-DHS Cybersecurity Exec: Encryption is Key
Endpoint encryption, while a strong starting point, is not always adequate to protect enterprises from today's sophisticated attacks, according to a former director of global cybersecurity management at the ...Full Article
HP Beefs Up Helion Ecosystem
Addressing what it says is the growing need for more flexible infrastructure to deploy and run new applications, Hewlett-Packard rolled out a "hyper-converged infrastructure appliance" delivering a virtual server ...Full Article
Seagate, Micron Target Enterprise With New SSD
A new solid-state drive targeted at enterprise and cloud users is the first storage platform resulting from an alliance announced earlier this year between Seagate Technology and memory specialist ...Full Article
CERN to Deploy Brocade’s OpenFlow SDN
Software-defined networking technology got a boost this week with a new and demanding use case: uncovering the secrets of the universe. Networking equipment vendor Brocade Communication Systems said it ...Full Article
