Laser Beams Speed Financial Trading
In today's capital markets, whoever can send and receive real-time market data the fastest has a tremendous advantage. The incentive to execute financial transactions ahead of the competition means ...Full Article
Intel Aims Xeon E7 v2 At Big Memory Workloads
Big companies support thousands of users on their applications, they have big databases behind them, and they therefore need big iron. For those who want to migrate off of ...Full Article
Big Banks Discover Atlantis Storage Virtualization
Atlantis Computing has carved out a niche for itself in the datacenter by virtualizing desktops and storing them in main memory in server farms for fast access. Some of ...Full Article
Startup Slashes Latencies With Server-Switch Hybrid
For some workloads, the most important thing is cutting out as much latency as possible from the hardware and software stack. For many of those same latency-sensitive customers, simplifying ...Full Article
Canonical To Kick Ubuntu Server Into Hyperscale
Canonical, the maker of the Ubuntu distribution of Linux, does not have the same kind of footprint in enterprise datacenters that rivals Red Hat and SUSE Linux do. But ...Full Article
Dell Bares Switch Metal To Other Network Operating Systems
When you look at a switch, you are looking at the vestiges of a proprietary past that many of the largest companies in the world want to do away ...Full Article
Goldman Sachs And Fidelity Bank On Open Compute
What started out as a desire by Facebook to control its own infrastructure five years ago and evolved into the Open Compute Project to open source hardware and datacenter ...Full Article
Financial, Government Sectors Lift Q4 For Juniper
Intel and IBM may be experiencing weaker-than-expected revenues from the enterprise sector, but switch and router maker Juniper Networks had a nice bump from enterprises and beat Wall Street's ...Full Article
AMD Etches “Warsaw” Opterons For Financial Services Friends
AMD is taking a trip down the Opteron 6300 lane one last time with the launch of the "Warsaw" variants of its high-end server processors. The company has been ...Full Article
Supermicro Revs Up Low Latency HFT Servers
If you have the need for speed, Supermicro has a server for you. Supermicro is known to many as a motherboard supplier, but the company has a large and ...Full Article
