Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing arm of the world's largest online retailer, got the first-mover advantage in cloud computing and has been aggressively innovating for more than eight years to keep its sizeable lead over larger and in some cases much richer players that are trying to get their slice of the virtual IT ...Full article
The Kubernetes software container management system that search engine giant Google just open sourced a month ago has got some big – and perhaps surprising – backers. And that makes it more likely that Kubernetes could become a de facto standard and commercialized someday. Kubernetes, an ancient Greek word meaning pilot, is not an open ...Full article
Microsoft is rolling out the latest series of its Azure storage appliances with an eye toward helping customers manage data growth while forestalling the seemingly endless cycle of buying additional storage. Hence, Microsoft is promoting its StorSimple 8000 series hybrid storage arrays as "massively scalable" with greater on-premise capacity for SSD and HHD storage. Takeshi ...Full article
Interxion, the Dutch cloud and datacenter services specialist, said its customers could link to Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure from any of its 37 datacenters. The private connections are facilitated through Amazon's Direct Connect partners and Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute partners, Amsterdam-based Interxion said. Those services, running in conjunction with Interxion's "cloud hub," allow customers ...Full article
If the rumors are right, and they usually are on these sorts of things, then IBM is looking to get out of the chip manufacturing business and has been shopping around its two foundries in Vermont and New York. But that does not mean Big Blue wants to get out of doing basic research in ...Full article
In the introduction article in this series, I explained that NUMA topology-based SMP systems with two levels to the memory (DRAM) hierarchy have been around and kicking for quite a few years now. We added a third level to this memory hierarchy when we added Shared-Memory Clustering (SMC). Either way, all memory (DRAM and processor ...Full article
As part of the release of its VMAX3 release, EMC is acquiring cloud gateway startup TwinStrata. EMC said its new embedded cloud access would be delivered through TwinStrata's "cloud tiering" technology, called CloudArray. TwinStrata is based in Natick, Massachusetts. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. CloudArray allows customers to shift little-used data to the public ...Full article
In many ways, the choice of a server virtualization technology is more important for a large enterprise than is the choice of the underlying physical server platform. While the X86 platforms that dominate enterprise datacenters are not perfectly uniform and do offer some differentiation, a server acquisition is as much a political one (usually playing ...Full article
Amazon Web Services is shifting down market with a new Amazon Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2) instance type designed for web and database applications that benefit from a performance burst but don't require sustained high CPU horsepower. AWS said pricing for its on-demand T2 instances start at $9.50 per month (or $0.013 per hour), making them ...Full article
An experimental microserver system developed by IBM in conjunction with the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy has the potential to end up in commercial systems running massively parallel workloads. So hopes Ronald Luijten, a system designer at IBM Research in Zurich, Switzerland, who was showing off the initial microserver for the DOME project to government ...Full article
Having announced that it was joining the OpenDaylight Project a month ago, Extreme Networks has come out with a software-defined networking strategy that will heavily leverage that open source project and that will also make use of the many assets developed by itself and Enterasys, which it acquired last September for $180 million. That acquisition ...Full article
Facebook says its first European datacenter in northern Sweden is generating jobs as well as conserving energy. The social media giant broke ground on the facility in Luleå, Sweden in 2011. The site is near the Arctic Circle. Because of its climate, which allows the social network to use outside air for cooling, Facebook selected ...Full article
Unhappy with the cost per gigabit of bandwidth with current Ethernet switches and adapters, two of the cloud computing giants – Google and Microsoft – have teamed up with two switch chip providers – Broadcom and Mellanox Technologies – and one upstart switch maker – Arista Networks – to create a specification for Ethernet speeds ...Full article
Red Hat has followed up the roll out of the latest version of its mainstay Enterprise Linux operating system with the beta release of the Red Hat Satellite 6 management suite. The management system for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 is based on a bunch of other open source tools, including Puppet and Foreman, used ...Full article
The prognosticators at Gartner have gazed into their crystal balls and now think that spending on servers, switching, and storage in the datacenter is going to be a bit slower than expected this year, and also say that they think spending on IT services will not be as robust as they had hoped. Spending on ...Full article
The CIA's chief information officer provided an update on the spy agency's plans to roll out private cloud services – one would guess extremely private – during an industry symposium sponsored by its cloud vendor, Amazon Web Services (AWS). Spy agency CIO Douglas Wolfe said the CIA expects to begin deploying initial cloud services this ...Full article
Cloud deployments depend on many network services such as monitoring, VPN services, advanced firewalling and intrusion prevention, load balancing, and traditional security and optimization policies. If we consider a modern cloud data center that supports potentially hundreds of thousands of hosts, scaling and automating these network services creates the most challenging task for the cloud ...Full article
As a recent attendee and speaker at the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta, I was amazed at what a difference a year makes in the life of the OpenStack project. I come from a datacenter operations background and my interest has always been in how to make today's enterprise customers go faster and run their operations ...Full article
The growing computational power and pervasiveness of the cloud is generating new applications and services that could transform industries and create new ones, a sunny survey of the future of cloud computing predicts. The annual survey conducted by North Bridge Venture Partners and Gigaom Research found that 49 percent of the survey's 1,358 respondents said ...Full article
Shared memory clusters are one of those technologies that is at the same time just evolutionary, but also – because of what it will become – potentially revolutionary. Although related technologies like distributed shared memory or virtual memory sharing within clustered systems – essentially message-passing "shared-nothing" architectures – have been around for a few years ...Full article
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