Microsoft's otherwise lackluster quarterly earnings report, weighed down by the closing of its deal to buy the Nokia smartphone business, nevertheless showed sustained growth in its Azure cloud. Revenue for the fiscal fourth quarter ending June 30 totaled $23.38 billion, an increase of 18 percent over the same period last year. The lion's share came ...Full article
Toshiba and SanDisk are partners in the manufacturing of NAND flash memory but in January, Toshiba acquired OCZ Storage Solutions, a maker of flash-based SAS and SATA drives and PCI flash cards, and with the just-completed acquisition of Fusion-io, SanDisk now sells SAS and SATA flash drives as well as PCI flash cards. PCZ has ...Full article
After several days of presentations and a unanimous vote of 61 to zero in favor, the members of the IEEE have decided to back an effort to develop 25 Gb/sec Ethernet standards for servers and switching. The formation of the study group is the first step in a process that will almost certainly culminate in ...Full article
The transformation of virtualized servers into clouds continues apace at enterprises, and is driving VMware to new heights. The company is now at a $6 billion annual run rate, its initial forays into network and storage virtualization are off to a good start, and its cloud business is growing sharply. In the second quarter ended ...Full article
SAP, the German enterprise software giant, is joining the Cloud Foundry Foundation and OpenStack Foundation open source communities. The vendor also rolled out at an open source convention in Portland, Oregon, two cloud-based tools – one for SAP HANA plus another called SAP River Rapid Development Environment. “Through the CloudFoundry and OpenStack initiatives, as well ...Full article
Big Switch Networks, a networking startup that was spun out of the Stanford University labs that created the OpenFlow protocol that underpins a lot of software-defined networking stacks, is rolling out its Big Cloud Fabric Controller. The software is the culmination of four years of work and fulfils its founders' goals of creating a controller ...Full article
Data scientists from MIT and Facebook have proposed a centralized datacenter network that chucks the traditional Internet architecture used for packet transmission and path selection, replacing it with a centralized "arbiter" of data transmission that would decide when and along what path to transmit packets. The centralized "zero-queue" data network architecture dubbed Fastpass blends two ...Full article
Over the past several years, key acquisitions and initiatives have transformed SanDisk into an enterprise storage powerhouse with its own flash memory capacity, making it one of the key vertically integrated players in the storage space. The company’s push into flash-based drives is paying off and it is expected that its drive into PCI-Express flash ...Full article
Our marketing friends correctly observe that Shared-Memory Clusters (SMCs) can provide scads of processors and buckets full of memory, all the while with the programming and often performance efficiency benefits of large SMPs. Some may add that SMCs don’t have the relatively harder boundaries for data sharing that network-based distributed-memory clusters do have. From this ...Full article
Benchmark testing of a database running on bare metal versus virtual public cloud servers found that the physical machines outperformed the virtual machines in terms of throughput and latency when running different big data workloads. The comparative performance report released this week was commissioned by Internap Network Services and database partner Aerospike. Internap's bare metal ...Full article
The systems business at IBM started to stabilize in the second quarter, with X86 servers and mainframes showing improvements and entry Power Systems machines based on the company’s Power8 processors beginning to ship and a fuller product set expected to roll out before the end of the year. While hardware sales were down in the ...Full article
For some workloads, a big eight-socket server node with a hefty memory footprint is going to support a database workload better than four two-socket nodes in a database cluster, which is why Oracle offers two different flavors of its Exadata database machine. The Exadata clusters were updated with Intel's Xeon E5 v3 processors last November ...Full article
Red Hat is the world's largest supplier of support services for open source software, and it has delivered its first update to the Ceph storage software it acquired back in April to give it a better footing in the OpenStack cloud market. The company is adding data tiering to the storage software and also a ...Full article
Convey Computer, a maker of hybrid supercomputers based on a mix of X86 processors and field programmable gate array (FPGA) chips, is teaming up with Dell's Data Center Solutions custom hyperscale server division to bring to market systems that radically accelerate the image processing that is part and parcel of a modern hyperscale application. Neither ...Full article
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella delivered a pep talk to the company's partner network this week in which he sought to flesh out the company's strategy for a "mobile-first, cloud-first world." Addressing the Microsoft Partner Conference in Washington, DC, Nadella stressed not only the current industry buzzword, "ecosystem," but what the software giant is doing to ...Full article
For the past several Xeon E5 processor launch cycles, customers in the cloud and supercomputing spaces get their hands on the chips and put them into production systems well ahead of the actual product launch date. This seems to be happening again with the impending "Haswell" Xeon E5 v3 processors from Intel, which had a ...Full article
The emergence of big data, storage, and streaming media applications that have bursty behavior on the network and the prevalence of 10 Gb/sec network adapters on servers is choking the uplinks on top of rack switches. Switch makers are being pushed to offer more uplink bandwidth and much fatter packet buffers, and Arista Networks is ...Full article
Cloud services provider Rackspace is unveiling a "managed cloud" strategy built around new service levels and a pricing model aimed at businesses looking for single- or multi-tenant servers, or a combination of those platforms, through a hybrid model. The new pricing model unveiled July 15 attempts to differentiate Rackspace from commodity cloud services providers like ...Full article
IBM is deadly serious about fostering an open ecosystem around the Power8 processor and its follow-ons, and has taken the next step in advancing its OpenPower cause by open sourcing the microcode that manages the boot sequence on the Power8 chips. This may sound like a small thing, but it has important ramifications for IBM ...Full article
With over 88,000 employees and £18.2 billion in revenues, BAE Systems is one of the largest defense, aerospace, and security contractors in the world and a major supplier of technology to the governments of the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, and Saudi Arabia. Like other high-tech manufacturers, BAE Systems relies on simulation and modelling software ...Full article
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