Among the post-silicon candidate materials for future chip manufacturing is graphene, a sheet of carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal lattice. One hurdle to the use of graphene as a foundational semiconductor material in chips and for storage is a confounding lack of magnetism. A semiconductor technique known as doping can be used to induce magnetism ...Full article
CoreOS Inc., the hyperscale Linux operating system upstart, announced a pair of incremental steps in the development of its software container alternative dubbed Rocket. It also highlighted progress on running CoreOS components on the vSphere 5.5 hypervisor. Since launching its alternative to Docker containers in December, San Francisco-based CoreOS said it has added new features ...Full article
Applications networking specialist A10 Networks said it has integrated its application delivery controller into Cisco System's Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) fabric, enabling the partners to offer application and security services on the year-old Cisco platform. San Jose-based A10 Networks joins a growing list of ACI ecosystems partners since Cisco unveiled its version of an application-driven ...Full article
Overall datacenter infrastructure growth has slowed over the last several years as a result of datacenter consolidation, global economic weakness and IT equipment improvements. Among those upgrades is a projected shift in IT spending to emerging hyperscale datacenters, market watchers say. One of the few bright spots in the market for datacenter infrastructure is IT ...Full article
IBM continues to tread water as its overall cloud business grows but server hardware along with management and other software continues to decline. IBM reported this week that its 2014 revenues declined to $92.8 billion, a 6 percent drop from the previous year. Meanwhile, its said annual net income fell 7 percent to $15.8 billion. ...Full article
Platform9, the cloud startup that emerged form stealth mode last August, unveiled its "Managed OpenStack" platform this week, a software-as-a-service offering aimed at quickly turning existing cloud infrastructure like servers into private clouds. The release follows six months of beta testing in which Platform9 said thousands of virtual machines were deployed on a daily basis. ...Full article
The open source movement coalescing around cloud computing has shifted in two years from developers trying to figure out core features and functionality to today's cloud projects generating "enterprise-ready" software. That's the key conclusion of the Linux Foundation's latest assessment of open cloud projects such as OpenStack, CloudFoundry and Docker along with a handful of ...Full article
NexGen Storage Inc., the flash array specialist spun out earlier this month from SanDisk Corp., unveiled a new hybrid flash array this week along with intelligent caching software designed to boost enterprise utilization of pricey flash storage. NexGen, Louisville, Colo., claims its third-generation "Prioritized Active Cache" software that targets caching algorithms can help justify the ...Full article
A new datacenter planned for the Washington, DC, suburbs is drawing the ire of local residents, largely because of the amount of electricity it would draw from proposed high-voltage power lines. Residents of Prince William County, Va., turned out in droves at a recent public hearing to protest the construction of high-voltage transmission lines needed ...Full article
The Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group has joined the WebScaleSQL initiative designed to create a set of common extensions aimed at scaling the open source MySQL relational database. Alibaba joins hyperscale Web application giants Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter in the effort to leverage the MySQL 5.6 database overseen by Oracle Corp. Facebook, which has ...Full article
Intel said its datacenter business expanded during 2014 as the chip giant topped analysts' earnings and revenue forecasts. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich said Intel's annual revenues grew 6 percent during 2014 to a record total of $55.9 billion. Net profits for the year totaled $11.7 billion, the company reported January 15. Intel's Data Center Group ...Full article
The Defense Information Systems Agency released new cloud security guidelines this week aimed at establishing policies for adoption of commercial cloud services by the U.S. military. The security requirements are "designed to ensure that DoD can attain the full economic and technical advantages of using the commercial cloud without putting the department's data and missions ...Full article
Verizon continues to take heat this week following what was apparently a planned 40-hour cloud outage last weekend that was attributed to a massive upgrade of its enterprise-class cloud infrastructure aimed at preventing future outages. Responding to growing pressure to explain why its "seamless upgrade" resulted in a 40-hour outage, Verizon issued a statement on ...Full article
While its unclear so far whether Docker containers will make much of a dent this year in the datacenter, vendors continue to announce support for the open platform designed to automate the deployment of cloud applications in secure software containers. The latest to jump on the Docker bandwagon is San Francisco-based CloudPassage, which this week ...Full article
The IoTivity open source software framework aimed at providing connectivity standards for the emerging Internet of Things has unveiled a "preview release" of a spec designed to ensure interoperability among devices and services across a range of industries. The Version 0.9.0 reference standard released on January 14 by the Open Interconnect Consortium (OIC) and backed ...Full article
The rising value of the U.S. dollar along with modest declines in demand for IT and telecommunications services will slow the global pace of IT spending in 2015, a market watcher is forecasting. Meanwhile, Gartner Inc. is forecasting a "tipping point" in the next three years as digital businesses shift from on-premise IT to hyperscale ...Full article
Dell Inc.'s storage unit rolled out a pair of all-flash storage array configurations this week priced as low $25,000 in a bid to overcome cost barriers that have hampered broad adoption of enterprise flash storage arrays. Dell said Tuesday (January 13) it is offering an entry-level all-flash storage array that includes six 480 GB read-intensive ...Full article
IBM said Monday (January 12) it has been awarded more than 7,500 patents in 2014, including more than 3,000 related to cloud computing, data analytics and online security. The company also took credit for topping the annual list of U.S. patent recipients for the twenty-second consecutive year. Since 2010, IBM claimed it has more than ...Full article
Initial benchmark results of for big data systems have been released in hopes of providing "verifiable performance, price-performance and availability metrics" for big data hardware and software, according to the head of the standards effort. Raghunath Nambiar, chairman of the TPC big data benchmark committee and a distinguished engineer at Cisco Systems, announced in a ...Full article
SanDisk Corp. said it has completed the spin out of its ioControl unit acquired as part of its deal announced in June 2014 to purchase Fusion-io. The new company will be called NexGen Storage Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The completion of the $1.1 billion acquisition clears the way for SanDisk, a ...Full article
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