International conglomerates, tech startups, and SMBs can tap into the federal government's investments in supercomputers and expertise through a series of programs operated by several of the nation's leading NSF funded universities and Department of Energy laboratories. The three DOE labs running computing centers for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science/Office of Advanced ...Full article
Following in the wake of the recently publicized attacks on government databases and systems, all CIOs and chief security officers should assume their own organizations could be next and must proactively revisit their technologies and processes to ensure they are capable of preventing a breach. "Conventional thinking in IT has been to prevent being hacked ...Full article
When the United States government accused China of hacking the Office of Personnel Management and gaining access to the records of 4 million current and former federal employees, it marked only the latest – but perhaps biggest – cybersecurity breach to shake the nation. "We are unprepared. Until fairly recently, hackers lacked the actual useful ...Full article
In an age where organizations are consolidating datacenters, embracing cloud, and data infiltrates everything via the Internet of Things (IoT), enterprises increasingly must consider how to securely, legally, and cost-effectively rid themselves of old servers, workstations, and other data-laden technologies. Businesses are considering how to dispose of assets sooner in order to maximize value; the ...Full article
When HP finally divides into two pieces – HP Inc. (PCs and printers) and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (servers and services) – how will the HPC portfolio fare? Views vary of course. The split is meant to let the ‘new’ companies shed distraction and sharpen focus. HPC will live within HP Enterprise, but perhaps surprisingly not ...Full article
The gears of government bureaucracy grind slowly, but gradually federal agencies are adopting cloud-based IT infrastructure and the enterprise tools it makes possible, according to a new market survey. However, "stretched IT budgets" are slowing the shift to cloud-based services, according to Gartner Inc. The market researcher forecast this week that IT spending by federal ...Full article
Dell hopes to do for HPC what it did for personal computers: Democratize high-performance computers across a broad swathe of enterprise applications. "HPC is at the core of everything we do. It's just different HPC. It's not nuclear reactors. You're not designing weapons systems. You're gaining insights that are actionable in real-time," said Paul Perez, ...Full article
A wave of technology industry consolidation continues as established companies coping with market disruptions tap into their cash reserves to both acquire new capabilities while seeking synergies in areas like the steady shift to hybrid clouds. The latest example comes from Cisco System, which announced Wednesday (June 3) it is acquiring Piston Cloud Computing, developers ...Full article
A day after announcing it would integrate FPGAs with its Xeon processor to create a datacenter-focused system-on-chip, Intel rolled a new version of it Xeon processor family with new datacenter graphics capabilities. Intel said its Xeon E3-1200 v4 family would integrate its Iris Pro graphics capability aimed at "visually intensive, cloud-based workloads" like video transcoding ...Full article
With hurricane season upon us, state and federal agencies are teaming up to prepare for worst-case scenarios. But what about you? If a sudden disruption threatens your organization's continuous operations, you may already have a disaster recovery plan in place and, if not, you will have at least thought about how to maintain operations. But ...Full article
Canadian managed services and telecommunications provider Ormuco today unveiled Connected Cloud, a hybrid cloud that allows enterprises to switch between private and public cloud environments. Based on HP Helion OpenStack, Connected Cloud was designed to enable organizations to initiate a hybrid cloud environment that easily transitions from a private cloud to a public cloud on ...Full article
Intel is targeting the integration of its processors with FPGAs in the datacenter and for the Internet of Things (IoT) with its $16.7 billion deal announced Monday (June 1) to acquire programmable logic vendor Altera Corp. The world's largest chipmaker said the combination would "enable new classes of products" based on its Xeon processors and ...Full article
Hewlett-Packard is aiming to accelerate the transition to the all-flash datacenter with a package of scalable arrays and services tuned to all-flash storage. The flash introduction also provides additional momentum to efforts aimed at reducing the cost of pricey solid-state arrays: HP claims its enterprise flash portfolio boosts performance and consumes less space while lowering ...Full article
Pure Storage today released a trio of announcements, including a cloud-based global management and support offering; new flash array hardware, and a strategy designed to extend enterprises' storage lifespan to at least 10 years. The 1,000-employee company's focus is to decrease the cost of storage, in part by allowing organizations to "get off the three ...Full article
Despite ongoing concerns about security and privacy in the cloud, a new survey finds that cloud providers are steadily improving data security while the growing availability of private cloud services has allowed customers to specify security and data-protection measures unique to their operations. Survey results released earlier this month by The Economist Intelligence Unit also ...Full article
The inexorable shift of chip making to Asia continued this week with the announcement that Singapore-based semiconductor manufacturer Avago Technologies Ltd. will acquire U.S. mainstay Broadcom Corp. in a cash and stock deal valued at $37 billion. Broadcom, Irvine, Calif., a leading communications chipmaker, is a big catch for Avago, which said it plans to ...Full article
A long-time staple in the world of defense contracting computing, SRC Computers today made its first foray into the commercial space with the introduction of a hyperscale server. Named after Seymour R. Cray, SRC Computers has been selling systems to defense and intelligence customers since 2002. Over that time, the company saw scaling hundreds of ...Full article
When an organization's records are breached, it costs an average of $3.8 million to overcome the attack, according to the newly released Ponemon Institute's "Cost of Data Breach Study: Global Analysis." Ironically, the annual report came out the day after the Internal Revenue Service disclosed hackers used stolen data to access the records of more ...Full article
Seemingly nonstop reports of network security breaches—the latest one at the Internal Revenue Service—and heightened awareness about the need to button down corporate infrastructure appears to be reflected in a survey of the global security software market released this week. Meanwhile, Symantec continues to dominate the security software market as other enterprise vendors like Intel ...Full article
Using the experiences they gleaned as developers at Flickr, the founders of startup Opsmatic today debuted a real-time data platform and live-state monitoring service built specifically to support the needs of fast-moving DevOps teams. The combination of DevOps and Agile environments creates a complex operating environment that demands real-time visibility and a "single source of ...Full article
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