New instances unveiled by Amazon Web Services this week based on a customized version of Intel's Xeon E5 processor reflect what the cloud provider emphasized is a steady increase in the "intensity" of workloads running on the cloud. AWS CTO Werner Vogels unveiled the new instances, based on the "Haswell" Xeon E5-2600 v3 processors that ...Full article
Software-defined storage along with hyper-converged infrastructure may be catching on at the high end of the enterprise market largely because it promises to make life a little easier for those who manage storage infrastructure. Most of the IT managers interviewed by market analyst 451 Research this past summer said they either understood SDS (59 percent) ...Full article
If there is a consistent message coming out of Amazon Web Services from its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week, it is that enterprise adoption of Amazon’s public cloud is on the rise. Private and public organizations are moving from dabbling in the cloud to deploying a large chunk of their mission critical applications ...Full article
As global datacenter construction peaks over the next several years, "mega datacenters" are emerging as the primary server location for colocation and cloud service providers, a new industry survey concludes. Hence, International Data Corp. reported this week, while the number of datacenters being built through 2017 is expected to decline, cloud services that are taking ...Full article
HGST, the disk drive business formerly owned by IBM and then Hitachi that is now part of Western Digital, is in a constant battle with Seagate Technology and a slew of upstarts peddling other kinds of storage based on tape and flash. Improving the performance, capacity, and value of disk drives is critical, and HGST ...Full article
The latest version of Red Hat's OpenShift Enterprise has come out along with a pair of new services focuses on integrating applications with existing datacenter infrastructure. With the latest release of OpenShift Enterprise, the open source vendor also it is adding a private integration platform-as-a-service offering to deliver cloud-based services application integration. The new services, ...Full article
At the end of the summer, Steve Scott, the chief technology officer who brought many of Cray's interconnects and systems to life in the past several decades, came back to the company after taking key roles at graphics chip maker Nvidia and hyperscale datacenter operator Google. In that time, Cray has been pushing beyond its ...Full article
Despite surging cloud usage rates, security concerns remain the leading barrier to wider adoption of cloud computing as IT decision makers cope with a shortage of reliable safeguards to prevent security breaches to their cloud networks. Meanwhile, the annual Dell Global Technology Adoption Index released last week also found a "strong correlation" between cloud adoption ...Full article
Like many enterprises, AutoTrader.com is on a journey from physical machines running distinct parts of its application stack toward a virtualized and automated cloud that allows for more efficiency and flexibility. It is a long journey, and one that no company completes in a year. AutoTrader.com is one of the first wave of Internet companies ...Full article
Verizon said this week its Enterprise Solutions unit has joined a growing list of vendors gaining the authority to provide cloud services to federal agencies. Verizon joins Amazon Web Services and others in gaining operational authority under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, or FedRAMP. The certification permits Verizon Enterprise Solutions to initially provide ...Full article
As efforts to make datacenters more energy efficient hit a wall, Microsoft is taking a new approach: using methane biogas from an adjacent wastewater treatment facility along with fuel cell technology to move a prototype datacenter in Wyoming off the grid. Microsoft teamed with the Energy Management unit of German engineering giant Siemens and state ...Full article
Don't try to lift this by yourself. In the search for ever-cheaper and ever-denser storage, the customers that drive the Data Center Solutions unit at Dell have asked the company to forge a storage-heavy dual-node server that could cram nearly a quarter of an exabyte of data into a single modular datacenter container. The DCS ...Full article
The sky appears to be the only limit for the continuing growth of cloud traffic, workloads, and storage in datacenters, according to the latest industry forecast, this one by cloud vendor Cisco Systems. The annual Cisco Global Cloud Index also projects datacenter traffic will nearly triple while cloud services account for more than three quarters ...Full article
Since founding its Data Center Solutions unit back in May 2006, which began with a custom server drawn on the back of a bar napkin at the Driskell Hotel in Austin, Texas, Dell has learned a lot about the varied needs of enterprise, hyperscale, and supercomputing customers when it comes to systems and storage. The ...Full article
Google may not be the first of the major public cloud operators to support Docker containers, but it aims to provide the best support for the popular container format. Docker, a lightweight virtualization technology that leverages many innovations that are inspired by Google itself, has taken Linux systems by storm and is coming to Windows ...Full article
In inexorable march of software technology is disrupting entire industries as the flexibility of software-defined systems ranging from storage to networking redirects the very economy that helped create the disruption. Hence, argues the executive director of the OpenStack Foundation, "We are living in a software-defined economy." "Everyone competes with a startup," Jonathan Bryce told the ...Full article
It has been a year now since Dell took itself private and removed itself from the prying eyes of Wall Street investors. The company had its share of drama as it went private, and its main rivals in the systems business, Hewlett-Packard and IBM, are now going through their own divestitures and related theatrics. Now, ...Full article
In the hyperscale world, snippets of data pile up like mountains and a traditional file system that allows data to be updated is not only inappropriate, but too slow to serve up that data. This is precisely why object storage was invented in the first place somewhere between two and three decades ago, depending on ...Full article
The inexorable shift to the cloud is beginning to take on the features of a storm front, according to the latest survey of the cloud services market. Indeed, industry watcher IDC forecasts that public IT cloud services will account for more than half of global software, server, and storage spending growth by 2018. In a ...Full article
Despite surging cloud usage rates, security concerns remain the leading barrier to wider adoption of cloud computing as IT decision makers cope with a shortage of reliable safeguards to prevent security breaches to their cloud networks. Meanwhile, the annual Dell Global Technology Adoption Index released last week also found a "strong correlation" between cloud adoption ...Full article
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