A June 5 deadline for federal agencies to comply with government cloud security and other U.S. standards could leave some major cloud vendors on the outside looking in. That is the scheduled deadline for federal agencies to complete assessments of their cloud providers based on the Federal Risk and Authorization Management program, or FedRAMP. The ...Full article
A survey of the datacenter industry broken down into colocation and financial services along with a catch-all enterprise category found that the former are receiving budget increases while enterprise spending on datacenters is slowing. The 2014 datacenter survey by market researcher and industry consultant Uptime Institute also warned that investments aimed at improving datacenter power ...Full article
Sometimes you can throw hardware at a problem and speed up an application, and other times, if you delve into the software stack and make changes, that works. Sometimes, you can do both and come out even further ahead. Such is the case with a new set of benchmarks run on the latest "Ivy Bridge" ...Full article
It is not a coincidence that Cavium, a maker of MIPS processors aimed at networking equipment and other embedded uses chose the Computex 2014 conference in Taipei, Taiwan to announce its entry into the ARM server chip space. Many of Cavium's customers for its ThunderX processors will come from Taiwan, where a large percentage of ...Full article
The SAP HANA ecosystem continues to expand with broader collaboration between the German enterprise software specialist and hardware partner Dell that rolls out new services on the SAP HANA platform. The goal of this and a string of related announcements this week is to move SAP customers to a real-time cloud platform that applies, in ...Full article
In-memory processing is the hot new thing in the enterprise datacenter and SGI, with decades of experience building shared memory supercomputers, wants to leverage that expertise and catch the in-memory wave. For the past two years, the company has been designing its next-generation NUMAlink interconnect and the UV Gen3 systems that will make use of ...Full article
The Ethernet switch market just took its biggest sequential dive in a long time, thanks to a confluence of economic forces and technology transitions among the major players. The box counters at IDC and Dell'Oro Group both gave their assessment of the Ethernet switching space as last week was winding down, and the news is ...Full article
Thousands of companies have dropped their relational databases and moved to SAP's HANA in-memory database and application platform, and SAP's own Business Suite application stack running atop HANA has broken through 1,000 customers and is one of the fastest-growing products in the company's four decades of operation. SAP has kept very strict control of the ...Full article
The first of several systems that will bring technologies from Hewlett-Packard's Superdome Itanium-based machines to big memory ProLiant servers based on Xeon processors is making its debut this week at SAP's annual customer shindig. Code-named "Project Kraken," the system is commercialized as the ConvergedSystem 900 for SAP HANA and as such has been tuned and ...Full article
There’s been a lot of recent talk about SSDs and flash storage, and rightly so. The move to flash storage is happening now—but a major shift, an inflection point, will occur as the price-performance of in-memory flash storage warrants replacing performance disk tiers, such as scratch file systems or SAN volumes derived from fast disks, ...Full article
The battle between the tier one incumbent server makers and Cisco Systems and the custom server makers continued in the first quarter of the year, and the upstarts are gaining ground on both the shipment and revenue fronts. During the three months that ended in March, Gartner reckons that the world consumed 2.36 million servers, ...Full article
Key attributes of the smart grid, namely adding intelligence to the networks that distribute power, are being applied by Google to the design and operation of power-hungry datacenters. The search giant said its quest for ever-greater energy efficiency in its sprawling complex of datacenters has led it to adopt a new tool: machine learning. Specifically, ...Full article
A closely watched assessment of the cloud computing industry again ranks Amazon Web Services (AWS) as the leading cloud infrastructure-as-a-service provider (IaaS), but notes that rival Microsoft is slowly gaining ground as it fleshes out its cloud offerings. Market watcher Gartner released its annual cloud IaaS rankings in the form of a Magic Quadrant For ...Full article
Datacenter and interconnection specialist Equinix said it has attracted a new member to the Equinix Cloud Exchange: GoGrid, a cloud and open data services infrastructure provider. GoGrid joins other cloud services providers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and TW Telecom on the Equinix Cloud Exchange. The Exchange is designed to bring together cloud service providers ...Full article
Cloud vendors continue to shift their attention to the government sector as federal agencies move to deploy cloud-based networks. The latest example comes from HP Enterprise Services, which announced a secure private cloud offering this week it says is designed to help government and other public sector agencies make the transition to cloud computing and ...Full article
The overhead of full-on server virtualization is too much for a lot of hyperscale datacenter operators as well as their peers (some might say rivals) in the supercomputing arena. But the ease of management and resource allocation control that comes from virtualization are hard to resist and this has fomented a third option between bare ...Full article
Growing demand for application software along with big data and analytics drove a recovering enterprise software market in 2013. Software sales also benefitted from an economic recovery in Europe and strengthening in the United States. Meanwhile, Microsoft remained the dominant software vendor in 2013 with market share totaling 17.8 percent, more than twice its nearest ...Full article
Atos, the European IT services giant based in France that is the amalgam of a dozen companies that have been brought together over the past several decades, is getting into the systems business through the acquisition of French IT supplier and services supplier Bull. It is interesting to contemplate if similar deals will follow. Bull ...Full article
Oracle's managed cloud services have received the U.S. government's seal of approval. The software giant said this week it has been approved under a federal IT program to deliver a new type of secure managed cloud service to government customers as part of "Federal Cloud First" initiatives. That effort is part of a government-wide IT ...Full article
The turnaround of Hewlett-Packard under CEO Meg Whitman is not quite accomplished yet, with revenues flat and net income up decently in the second quarter of its fiscal 2014 ended in April. In the quarter, the company continued to have mixed results in its systems business, and the PC business did pretty well by comparison. ...Full article
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