Oil Explorer Strikes Black Gold With 20 PB Data Reservoir
The conventional wisdom at large enterprises that deal with truly enormous datasets is that they can't keep it all online. At some point, because of the high cost of ...Full Article
Dell Forges Custom G5 Racks For Hyperscale Shops
As funny as it sounds, the standard computing rack is a problem in the datacenter. The physical layout of datacenters is pegged to the dimensions, weight, power draw, and ...Full Article
IBM Gives ‘Cheap’ Fiber Cables New Lease on Life
As computers get faster and data gets bigger, it is essential that data transfer speeds keep up so networks don't become the bottleneck. This is true whether the transfer ...Full Article
X86 System Sales Grow, Everything Else Shrinks
Sales of servers have always been tied very tightly to the regional and global economies and the ups and downs of various industries. But with the relentless pace of ...Full Article
Adaptive Computing Spans The DigitalGlobe
Given a choice between developing their own cluster and data management software or buying it off the shelf from third parties, most large enterprises would prefer to buy rather ...Full Article
Foundation Positions Cloud Foundry PaaS As Enterprise Standard
Cloud Foundry, the platform cloud framework long associated with VMware and then its Pivotal spinoff, is going the way of OpenStack now that Pivotal intends to establish a formal ...Full Article
Microsoft Installs Direct Line To Azure Cloud
A public cloud is only as good as the networks it links into, and so Microsoft has begun to offer dedicated connections to the Windows Azure public cloud. The ...Full Article
High Frequency Traders Hedge Bets With IBM Power
Banks, hedge funds, high frequency traders, and other players in the capital markets have a need for speed. IBM thinks that its Power-based systems are better suited for running ...Full Article
Quanta Pushes Foot Inside Enterprise Datacenter Doors
Hyperscale cloud operators like Facebook and Rackspace Hosting came to Taiwanese manufacturer Quanta Computer several years ago when they wanted to design and build custom machines tuned up for ...Full Article
Chilly UK Weather Cools Latest Rackspace Datacenter
Rackspace recently broke ground on a 130,000 square foot, 10 megawatt datacenter, in the West Sussex region of England, south of London. The US-based cloud and hosting provider together ...Full Article
