One of the buzzwords for users of cloud services refers to the increasing need for speed and the velocity of data. Datasets are not only growing in size but for many applications must be manipulated in real time. Hence, it is argued, friction in the cloud must be reduced to handle accelerating data. An example ...Full article
IBM Microelectronics' fire sale of its flagging semiconductor unit has yet hit another snag after talks between the company and potential suitor Globalfoundries reportedly broke down over how much IBM would pay to get rid of its chip business. The stalled talks follow a July announcement by IBM that it would invest $3 billion in ...Full article
Fifteen years ago, Google did what every startup on the Internet dreams of: It closed its first round of venture funding, put out its first press release, and took its first step into the hyperscale realm and made its first big order for custom servers to support its rapidly expanding search engine empire. Like many ...Full article
The cloud and networking technology behind the business of Major League Baseball is increasingly based on virtualization that is replacing the monolithic, physical infrastructure built up over the last decade to stream games, stats, and other new services to fans. Driving this trend is the fact that the streaming of professional sports in general and ...Full article
HGST, the disk drive and NAND flash storage device maker that is now part of Western Digital and that is based on IBM’s former UltraStar disk business, is using the Flash Memory Summit to show off a prototype PCI Express card based on phase change memory, one of several contenders to eventually replace NAND flash ...Full article
In the preceding articles on Shared Memory Clusters, I have been making a distinction between truly distributed systems – those that must explicitly copy data between systems – and the SMC's extended NUMA-based systems, which allows any processor to access any memory in the cluster. You can think of the boundaries between the distributed systems ...Full article
Amazon Web Services said it is extending its Domain Name Service called Amazon Route 53 to include support for domain name registration along with management and geographical DNS. The cloud giant also rolled out enhancements to its AWS Trusted Advisor tool launched last year, including a package of best practices. The advisor is now available ...Full article
The many thousands of organizations that are still happily using the OpenVMS operating system to run mission-critical applications have heaved a collective sigh of relief now that Hewlett-Packard has decided to license the source code to OpenVMS to a third party company that has promised to enhance it, and more importantly, port it from Itanium ...Full article
Hyperscale datacenters have their clustered object storage and supercomputing centers have their GPFS and Lustre parallel file systems, but at large enterprises, the storage area network still reigns as the place to put the most critical data. To that end, Cisco systems is expanding its MDS 9000 family of SAN switches, goosing them to span ...Full article
Researchers from AT&T, IBM, and Applied Communication Sciences said they have built a prototype network that promises to reduce the set up time for inter-cloud connectivity from days to seconds. The scientists said their elastic cloud-to-cloud networking scheme could eventually lead to "sub-second" cloud provisioning via IP and next-generation optical networking equipment. The result, they ...Full article
The great thing about Linux is that it runs on nearly everything, and if ARM servers ever take off, they will do so because Linux workloads are ported from X86 and other architectures to run on 64-bit ARM processors. The classic chicken and egg problem is making it difficult for an ARM server ecosystem to ...Full article
There are many ways for IBM to get to the $7 billion revenue run rate it has promised Wall Street it can hit as it exits 2015. One way was to take its existing application hosting services and merge them with a true cloud provider, and then make more acquisitions from there to quickly build ...Full article
Software-defined networking is coming to the datacenter despite lingering concerns about the maturity of the technology, according to an upbeat forecast that predicts SDN deployments will begin in 2015. Infonetics Research forecasts that 87 percent of North American-based enterprises surveyed intend to deploy SDN in their datacenters and campus LANs by 2016. "The leaders in ...Full article
Like most large enterprises, chip maker AMD has some big central systems that it uses to run its core business, and on top of that, it has a cluster of many thousands of systems with over 100,000 cores running its electronic design automation (EDA) software, which is used to create its CPU, GPU, and APU ...Full article
GigaSpaces Technologies, a provider of middleware designed to ease application deployment in the cloud, has revamped its Cloudify orchestration platform to help automate management of applications once they have been deployed. New York-based GigaSpaces said its Cloudify 3.0 version focuses on app deployment, scaling, and management on a range of cloud environments, including the SoftLayer ...Full article
Rackspace has expanded its managed cloud services, adding two open source variants of the MySQL database along with plans to add another database to its support list by mid-August. MariaDB and Pecona Server are being added to Rackspace's list of supported databases in response to requests from application developers as these open source databases gain ...Full article
IBM launched its first servers based on the Power8 processors back in April, and the initial machines were aimed at scale-out clusters as well as at customers needing a modest standalone machine with one or two processor sockets to run their workloads. Big Blue was expected to focus initially on these scale-out machines, and was ...Full article
RackWare, the five-year-old cloud management startup, has rolled out the third version of its disaster recovery module designed to move existing IT infrastructure to the cloud with minimum hassle. RackWare Management Module, or RMM 3.0, aims to reduce the cost of disaster recovery in enterprise datacenters while extending IT resources into the cloud. That allows ...Full article
The public cloud business of retailing giant Amazon is nearly doubling in terms of capacity sold to customers in the past quarter, but it looks like the aggressive moves by Microsoft and Google with their respective Azure and Cloud Platform clouds is taking their toll on the revenues and perhaps the profits at Amazon Web ...Full article
A month ago, Rackspace Hosting previewed its OnMetal bare metal servers, which are configured quickly and sold with utility-style pricing like its virtual machine instances. Now Rackspace is ready to sell OnMetal capacity and believes it can offer a compelling performance and price/performance advantage compared to other clouds that run atop hypervisors. As EnterpriseTech explained ...Full article
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