Application development and delivery software unveiled by apps specialist WaveMaker leverages Docker container technology to help improve management of application infrastructures, or what the company calls "application platforms-as-a-service." The company said its WaveMaker Enterprise applications platform uses enterprise-scale technologies like Docker to create apps that can be extended or customized to, for example, incorporate APIs. ...Full article
When a back-end database can't serve up bits of data fast enough to deal with the hit load on the web servers that sit in front of it, the common thing to do is to put some kind of caching software between the database and the web servers. In the open source world and increasingly ...Full article
Big data and analytics are not a threat to Cray. They are an opportunity. And importantly, the increasingly intertwined workloads of modeling, simulation, and analytics play to the strengths of a system builder like Cray. That was the main message of the keynote address of Cray CEO Peter Ungaro during his keynote address at the ...Full article
Enterprise storage specialist HGST unveiled a slew of new flash products as the Western Digital unit seeks to fashion of "flash fabric" that promises to help move datacenter storage closer to computing and applications. While its latest PCIe SSD series and accompanying server-side clustering and volume management software stresses performance, HGST also on Sept. 9 ...Full article
An ecosystem is beginning to emerge around Docker containers, this time focusing on speeding software development and code delivery. The latest example is an updated version of a delivery platform intended to help enterprise software teams speed adoption of Docker containers for applications while automating the enterprise application development process from code to production. Seattle-based ...Full article
Red Hat continues to expand its cloud management toolkit with the release of its Satellite 6 suite as the open-source specialist sharpens its focus on areas like subscription management and underlying content distribution features for the datacenter and cloud. Based on a batch of open-source tools, including the first implementation of Puppet in the Red ...Full article
The other SMC articles in this series have referred to a notion called "memory." These articles have often intentionally not said so, but I have left the impression that we are talking about DRAM DIMMs. DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) is dynamic because it would lose its contents if not periodically refreshed or if the ...Full article
The recent price war among Amazon, Google, and Microsoft suggests that more of the cost advantages of hyperscale datacenters are being passed on to the customer. So what does this mean for enterprise IT over the coming years? To date, with the exception of a few SaaS offerings, enterprises have been relatively slow to adopt ...Full article
Since it was founded 11 years ago, Shutterstock has grown to become one of the largest image sharing marketplaces on the Internet. Managing that growth has not always been easy for the company, which runs its own IT infrastructure. But thanks to an in-memory analytic database that collects and analyzes 20,000 operational data points per ...Full article
Intel rolled out its "Haswell" generation of Xeon E5-2600 processors at its developers' forum by positioning the third version of the chip as the engine that would help in "re-architecting the datacenter" as a dynamic, automated, and software-defined environment where computing, storage, and networking are "pooled" to boost datacenter utilization. The improvements in single-thread performance ...Full article
Any company that bought racks of servers within the past six months is probably going to be annoyed this week. The drumbeat of Moore's Law continues apace with the launch of the "Haswell" generation of Xeon E5-2600 processors, the third generation to bear that name and to provide a decent bump in both single-thread performance ...Full article
Enterprises and some supercomputing centers took a shining to blade servers a decade ago and these converged platforms, which pack servers, storage, and switching into a single box with shared power, cooling, and management as well as redundancy in key components, continue to sell well. But the new density-optimized, modular, multinode servers that are designed ...Full article
Cisco Systems wants to ride the data-driven wave dubbed the Internet of Everything to take its Unified Computing System architecture from the datacenter to the networked sensors that the company estimates will collect 40 percent of data by 2020. The server and switching giant laid out its "fast IT" strategy – a blueprint that seeks ...Full article
Five years ago, Cisco Systems got out in front of the pack with converged server and switching and a unified Ethernet fabric for server and storage traffic in its Unified Computing System blade servers. The company eventually added rack servers so it could handle workloads that needed more local memory and disk, and with the ...Full article
As government agencies edge closer to cloud adoption, one of the military services is attempting to take a more proactive approach to leveraging cloud technology to deliver tactical applications needed to handle growing volumes of sensor and targeting data in real time. The Office of Naval Research released a request for proposals in late August ...Full article
It is probably telling that these days datacenter managers think of the infrastructure under their care more in terms of the juice it burns and not by counting the server, storage, and switch boxes that consume that electricity and exhale heat. Ultimately, that power draw is the limiting factor in the scalability of the datacenter ...Full article
Microsoft has dug in for a long and perhaps uphill battle with search engine juggernaut Google, which has three times the reach in search. That means Microsoft has to deploy whatever technology it can to make its Bing search engine both faster and more accurate. To that end, Microsoft will be rolling out artillery in ...Full article
Cisco Systems and Red Hat are joining forces to ready Linux application containers along with Docker for prime time. In a relatively detailed blog post co-authored by Cisco and Red Hat engineers, the partners noted they have been working together on Red Hat's open-source container initiative called Project Atomic. It will serve as a lightweight ...Full article
All-flash storage arrays have come of age, and are increasingly being used to replace all-disk and hybrid flash-disk arrays for the tier one storage that underpins applications and databases in the datacenters of the world. This is what all of the major vendors are seeing happening, and it is also the view from the analysts ...Full article
Grid Engine, the popular workload management tool for distributed computing environments, now does Windows. And it is also doing Linux control groups, or cgroups, containers, a technology that was championed by Google many years back as the basis for its internal resource control on its massive clusters. The support for Windows was made at the ...Full article
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