Some hardware and software engineers at a startup called Airstone Labs, who have built scale-out systems for Google, among other places, want to build a better cluster. And as crazy as this might sound, Airstone has been compelled by necessity to come up with its own proprietary network interconnect to build low-latency, high-bandwidth clusters for ...Full article
IBM is opening two new datacenters that will use software and infrastructure from recently acquired SoftLayer to serve the federal government market. Consistent with its application software push, IBM also announced an "acceleration program" designed to help federal agencies speed development and deployment of mobile and other apps. The first datacenter will open in Dallas ...Full article
Days after releasing the latest version of its flagship open source operating system, Red Hat announced the latest release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization suite, its commercial implementation of the KVM hypervisor that is more tightly integrated with the OpenStack cloud controller. The release comes as datacenters are steadily switching from physical to virtual servers. ...Full article
SanDisk may have become a player in flash storage through the consumer market, but it has been making headway in the past couple years establishing itself as a key supplier of flash technologies to enterprises. With its $1.1 billion deal to acquire Fusion-io, SanDisk is completing its product set and also getting its hands on ...Full article
Brace yourself for the Zettabyte Era. That forecast comes from networking equipment giant Cisco Systems, which has released its latest Visual Networking Index that foresees global Internet Protocol traffic growing three-fold through 2018 to a hard-to-get-your-brain-around 1.6 zettabytes, or more than one and a half trillion gigabytes, per year. (The concept of zettabytes is so ...Full article
In the early days of flash-accelerated storage, it was all about making a subset of the data available on storage that had higher I/O so applications would speed up. With the falling cost of flash storage and more sophisticated software to compress, de-dupe, and provision data on flash arrays, now all of the talk is ...Full article
Nimble Storage, one of the several storage upstarts that has gone public recently, has unveiled a new high-end hybrid array and flash-only shelves that boost the capacity and performance of its devices. The Adaptive Flash platform targets customers looking for some wiggle room in establishing a balance between solid state and hard disk drives in ...Full article
Chip and server maker AMD has reorganized its operations, setting the stage for a key executive who was brought in to run the company's business units to one day be chief executive officer of the company. Concurrently with the reorganization, the co-founder of the SeaMicro server unit of AMD has decided to leave the company ...Full article
It is not every day that a major IT company throws down the gauntlet to its peers and declares a new computing architecture that will wipe away current system designs, but that is precisely what Hewlett-Packard did in a surprise move at its Discover 2014 conference in Las Vegas this week. Meg Whitman, the company's ...Full article
The datacenter ecosystem of the next decade is likely to resemble an expanded version of the hyperscale facilities currently being built out by today's Internet giants, cloud providers, and software service providers, according to an industry survey on the future of datacenters. Emerson Network Power led the Data Center 2025 initiative designed to explore trends ...Full article
Rumors have been going around this week that Simplivity, one of the converged systems upstarts that is heavily funded and trying to take on the incumbents in enterprise datacenters, is in talks to be acquired by Hewlett-Packard. This is not going to happen, the company tells EnterpriseTech. The rumors first surfaced at <i>CRN</i>, which cited ...Full article
Red Hat has unveiled the latest version of its open-source operating system, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, promoting it as the foundation of an "open hybrid cloud" that delivers emerging new capabilities like application containers. The latest version is the first major update of RHEL since mid-2010. Red Hat claims that more than 90 percent ...Full article
With the lion's share of the relational database market underpinning the systems of record humming along in datacenters, Oracle cannot afford to let its rivals get too far ahead of it when it comes to in-memory processing. After years of development and three and a half months of beta testing, Oracle is nearly ready to ...Full article
IBM is offering a dedicated connection to its SoftLayer cloud platform as a high-speed link between an enterprise's existing IT infrastructure and cloud services. The SoftLayer cloud division of IBM operates a global cloud platform that includes 13 datacenters today and that will expand to 40 centers by the end of the year. IBM said ...Full article
The next wave of virtualization, and one that has the potential to displace hypervisor-based virtualization on Linux platforms, is upon us now that Docker, the software container and application packaging system originally created by platform cloud provider dotCloud, has reached the 1.0 release milestone. The Docker project is relatively new, being only fifteen months old, ...Full article
Back in November last year, EnterpriseTech gave you the inside scoop on the massive 610,000 core server fleet that Intel uses to push Moore's Law along with its electronic design automation software. The chip maker told us that it was shifting from two-socket to uniprocessor servers to save money on software licenses and to drive ...Full article
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has appointed a tech industry veteran to help oversee its uneven cloud rollout. Jennifer Kerber, former president of the industry group TechAmerica Foundation and most recently executive director of the Government Transformation Initiative, will join GSA's Office of Citizens Services and Technologies as director of its Federal Cloud Credential ...Full article
Enterprises that want to run their clusters the way that Google does will soon have that ability now that Mesos, an open source cluster controller, is getting a commercial backer that will provide enterprise-grade support for the tool. Mesos was inspired by the system management programs at Google, and Mesosphere, the company that will be ...Full article
As more enterprises are opting to colocate their datacenters, a new player is emerging in the datacenter industry: the financial services sector. The financial services sector is becoming "more sophisticated" about its IT infrastructure, Matt Stansberry, author of an annual report on the datacenter industry, said in an interview. "They are looking at the datacenter ...Full article
Flash card maker Fusion-io is riding the Moore's Law curve to double up the capacity and boost the performance of its flagship ioMemory devices with a new line of PCI-Express cards that bear the Atomic brand. The Atomic line is meant to span the needs of the hyperscale datacenter operators, like Facebook and Apple, who ...Full article
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