The engineered systems that Oracle is best known for are used to accelerate databases and middleware, but the company also peddles machines that are preconfigured to run basic cloud infrastructure workloads, too. Called the Virtual Compute Appliances, these machines were just updated with the latest processors from Intel and some other features. Unlike the Exadata ...Full article
The Russian government is reportedly preparing to say "nyet" to American-made microprocessors, planning instead to replace Intel and AMD chips with a homegrown CPU based on an alternative architecture offered by ARM Holdings. According to Russian media reports, Russia's Ministry of Industry and Trade plans to replace the U.S.-made processors used in government computers with ...Full article
If Dell had not spent so much money taking itself private last year, it might be spending billions of dollars acquiring converged system upstart Nutanix. But instead – and very likely because Nutanix is not for sale and rather has its eye on going public sometime in the not-too-distant future – Dell has opted to ...Full article
All-flash array maker Violin Memory is striking up the data orchestra with its new Concerto 7000 series, adding a suite of data management software to its arrays and extending the capacity of the units by a factor of four. The Concerto 7000 arrays have been in development for some time, and Eric Herzog, chief marketing ...Full article
An emerging enterprise category of integrated systems that combine servers, storage and network infrastructure is led by the converged infrastructure alliance VCE, according to the latest in a series of "Magic Quadrant" rankings by market researcher Gartner. VCE, which was formed by Cisco Systems and EMC along with investments from VMware and Intel, combines network ...Full article
Analog chip developer Avago Technologies continued its foray into the storage market and possible the server market with the acquisition of PLX Technology in a cash deal valued at about $309 million. Singapore-based Avago, which has offices in Silicon Valley, also specializes in analog devices used for enterprise storage. It said PLX's PCI Express products ...Full article
A few years back, Intel made its foray into the networking arena with its Xeon and Atom processors, and several makers of specialized chips for networking are fighting back by taking their expertise and creating server variants of the 64-bit ARM architecture with embedded networking and other kinds of acceleration. Applied Micro, which has three ...Full article
Representatives of competing open source cloud controllers debated the merits of each and whether multiple open cloud platforms are even needed. The platform debate often comes down to which application-programming interface (API) is supported along with overall platform stability and ease of use. One executive speaking during the recent Gigaom Structure conference called the issue ...Full article
Intel is showing off a few more of the feeds and speeds of its forthcoming "Knights Landing" Xeon Phi chips and talking a bit about the future network fabric that will be paired with these compute engines as well as its flagship Xeon processors. The current "Knights Corner" parallel X86 processor has up to 61 ...Full article
The premise behind a new startup called InkaBinka, which launched this month and which is only a year old, is that none of us have the time to keep up with what is going on in the world. Or more precisely, we do not have time to wade through thousands of words in multiple stories ...Full article
InfiniBand network equipment supplier Mellanox Technologies had been hinting that it would be able to get its first 100 Gb/sec products out the door perhaps in late 2014 or in early 2015, and it turns out that this will happen sooner rather than later. The timing is not accidental, but rather precise, and specifically aims ...Full article
The CFEngine system management tool has been around for more than two decades, and after bringing in a new management lineup last year, the company bearing the same name that controls it is ramping up its efforts to push CFEngine into more enterprises. The launch of CFEngine 3.6.0 this week, which the company characterizes as ...Full article
The cloud business at Oracle is now almost as large as the engineered systems business that underpins it, and both are growing considerably faster than the rest of the company. In the company's fourth quarter of its fiscal 2014 year, which ended in April, Oracle reported revenues of $11.32 billion, up 3 percent, but net ...Full article
When is a cloud not a cloud? When it is really dedicated hosting with a new name slapped on it. Rackspace Hosting, which made enough of a mark in hosting to go public and which was wise enough to start the OpenStack cloud controller project with NASA four years ago, has been peddling true cloud ...Full article
With its vastly profitable search engine and advertising empire, it might seem that Google no longer has to worry about controlling capital expenditures. This is not the case. Google obsesses about infrastructure costs. But it does have the luxury of stepping back to rethink how best to utilize its sprawling infrastructure. In Google's case, the ...Full article
Intel is taking field programmable gate arrays seriously as a means of accelerating applications and has crafted a hybrid chip that marries an FPGA to a Xeon E5 processor and puts them in the same processor socket. The hybrid chip has not been given a name yet and should not be confused with the Xeon ...Full article
Social media giant Facebook is one step closer to ousting Cisco Systems as its primary datacenter switching supplier with the launch of a new top-of-rack engineering project inside of the company code-named "Wedge." As in the front of the wedge that is going to split apart the $20 billion and fairly monolithic datacenter switching market. ...Full article
Red Hat is acquiring privately-held eNovance, an open source cloud computing service provider, for about 50 million euros ($67.8 million) in cash along with 20 million euros ($27.1 million) in Red Hat common stock. The deal is subject to adjustments at closing, which is expected later this month, the companies said. Founded in 2008, eNovance is ...Full article
Network-attached storage pioneer NetApp is pushing back against the army of upstart makers of hybrid and all-flash storage arrays with upgrades to its FAS line of hybrid devices, extending the performance and scalability of its high end and offering more cost-effective arrays at the low end. The company has not yet announced its new FlashRay ...Full article
The transition to flash storage in the cloud is gaining steam as rivals Google and Amazon Web Services (AWS) each introduced solid state drive upgrades to their cloud platforms. The deployments underscore how SSD technology is entering the mainstream as a commodity, default offering. Along with an SSD-based persistent disk offering, Google also said it ...Full article
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