Rackspace Hosting has built two versions of its eponymous Private Cloud, the version of OpenStack that includes hardware and software that it either runs in its own facilities or plunks into your own datacenter and operates remotely. After nine months of crafting the third iteration of the Rackspace Private Cloud, Rackspace is ready to ship, ...Full article
Leveraging the "momentum" of its commercial platform-as-a-service, Red Hat says it is looking to expand its OpenShift Online service in Europe with a new hosting offering in Ireland. Red Hat is boasting rapid uptake of its OpenShift Online service since it was introduced in November 2011, including the launch of more than 2 million applications ...Full article
Chip maker Broadcom is the dominant supplier of chips for Ethernet switches with its Trident and Dune family of ASICs. But it faces increasing competition from established players like merchant chip makers Intel and Marvell and switch makers that still do their own ASICs such as Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard. And then there are upstarts ...Full article
Verizon's Enterprise Solutions unit is expanding connections to its private IP cloud interconnect service to include Amazon Web Services. Verizon's Secure Cloud Interconnect (SCI) service currently works with Microsoft Azure and Verizon Cloud. The addition of AWS connections is intended to help clients manage a multi-cloud environment that enables better application performance, dynamic bandwidth application ...Full article
Back in July, as EnterpriseTech has previously reported, IBM's chief financial officer, Martin Schroeter, said that Big Blue was working on fleshing out the midrange and high-end of the Power Systems lineup with new Power8-based systems. At the time, IBM was pretty vague about the timing, but the word on the street is that Big ...Full article
Azul Systems, the long-time maker of Java acceleration appliances that has transformed itself into a provider of Java runtime environments for X86 systems, is leaping on the Docker software container bandwagon and claiming first-mover advantage as the only implementation of the OpenJDK open source Java runtime that is certified to run on top of Docker ...Full article
Only a few years ago, if you went to the HPC On Wall Street conference in New York, all of the talk was about low latency and high performance. There were a couple of reasons for that, the first being that high frequency trading was much more prevalent and companies were netting much more profit ...Full article
Storage specialist EMC is looking for another merger partner while exploring other options after negotiations with rival Hewlett-Packard on a blockbuster corporate marriage reportedly broke down in recent weeks. Unconfirmed reports surfaced in mid-September that EMC was considering selling off its stake in VMware. An unidentified source later told Reuters that the reports were inaccurate ...Full article
A new report by the august Harvard Business Review and its corporate sponsor Verizon sings the praises of early adoption of technologies like cloud computing as the quickest path to business success. More than half (57 percent) of 672 business and technology leaders surveyed by HBR's Analytic Services unit said they viewed IT as an ...Full article
With Hewlett-Packard being such an eager supporter of the OpenStack cloud controller in the past couple of years, and increasingly so as it tries to build up its cloud portfolio to take on the public cloud operators that are moving away from its ProLiant gear and towards custom machines, it might have seemed a bit ...Full article
As the lines blur between traditional HPC and Extreme Scale Commercial Computing, proven solutions for HPC can provide competitive advantage in the commercial segment. Done correctly, liquid cooling results in CapEx avoidance by mitigating both data center physical expansion through increased rack density and in reducing infrastructure investments such as the need for chiller, HVAC ...Full article
As the federal government stumbles toward cloud deployment, an industry watcher reckons that cloud computing nevertheless represents a healthy 5 percent of federal IT spending. The growth is being led by private cloud deployment. IDC Government Insights concludes in a report released this week that federal cloud spending in fiscal 2014 will exceed earlier predictions, ...Full article
The Open Compute open source hardware project got its start more than three years ago when social media giant Facebook, which was at the time using custom server designs it created in conjunction with Dell, sat down with Rackspace Hosting and a number of other big datacenter operators and worked out the means of open ...Full article
For the past four months, Rackspace Hosting, one of the main driving forces behind the OpenStack cloud controller and Open Compute open source hardware, has been entertaining a number of future paths for the company, including being acquired by an unknown number of potential suitors. Earlier this week, Rackspace named a new CEO and got ...Full article
Larry Ellison, the brash Silicon Valley entrepreneur and college drop out who built Oracle into a software and enterprise computing powerhouse, will step down as the company's CEO and assume the dual roles of board chairman and chief technology officer, the company announced late Thursday. It will take two executives to replace the larger-the-life Ellison. ...Full article
After several years of development, storage array maker NetApp is starting to ship its FlashRay family of all-flash arrays to selected customers and partners and is looking to ramp up production as quickly as possible in 2015. With the FlashRay line, NetApp now has three different styles of all-flash arrays, all aimed at different customer ...Full article
Switching upstart A3Cube has created the first commercialized application of its PCI Express switching technology and the Ronniee Express fabric that runs atop it, aiming squarely at accelerating the performance of storage systems on a variety of extreme scale workloads. The new software, called Fortissimo Foundation, is in effect a storage operating system that runs ...Full article
Cisco Systems is acquiring privately held Metacloud, which deploys and operates private clouds based on the OpenStack cloud controller. The acquisition is intended to accelerate Cisco's intercloud strategy aimed at connecting private, public, and hybrid clouds. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Cisco said the acquisition of Metacloud's remote managed OpenStack private Cloud-as-a-Service ...Full article
The developers behind OpenStack have come a long way in adding fit and finish to successive releases of the cloud controller, but it is still a pain in the neck to build a cluster and install OpenStack on it to create a cloud. Chip and server maker AMD is working with commercial Linux and OpenStack ...Full article
Switch chip upstart XPliant, founded in 2011 by a bunch of techies from Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, Brocade Communications, and Marvell and in the process of being acquired by network and server chip maker Cavium Networks, has unveiled its first round of Ethernet switch ASICs and its intention to upset the current order among switch ...Full article
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