The hyperscale server market is growing fast and everybody from incumbent server makers to original design manufacturers who used to work for them all want a piece of the business. To get its cost of manufacturing more in line with the ODMs, Hewlett-Packard is forming a partnership with Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn, famous for the ...Full article
Software giant Oracle is not hesitant to leverage open source software when and if it suits the needs of its customers and its own income statement. The company has created a fairly substantial Linux distribution, controls the MySQL database, and participates in a number of file system projects. While Oracle has backed off on the ...Full article
EnterpriseTech told you a few months ago that Google was working on its own server motherboards based on IBM’s Power8 processor and at the Impact2014 conference in Las Vegas that Big Blue is hosting this week in Las Vegas, the search engine giant showed off its own homegrown system board. And we have also gotten ...Full article
IT "infrastructure matters in the new era of computing," IBM managers argued in the formal launching of its Power Systems servers based on its Power8 processor, taking aim at big data applications and cloud computing. IBM engineers also announced a Power8 interface advance designed to put accelerators closer to the processor. IBM is touting the ...Full article
Windows and Linux servers may dominate sales at Hewlett-Packard, as they do for the systems market at large, but the company still has a sizeable business peddling NonStop and HP-UX systems. These machines need care and attention from time to time, as any product line does, and this week HP is updating the hardware for ...Full article
There is no such thing as too much performance improvement. Microsoft's SQL Server 2014 relational database is shipping, and enterprises are now trying to figure out how to best deploy new "Hekaton" in-memory database engine as well as the Buffer Pool Extensions that help speed up the old SQL Server engine. Fusion-io has released some ...Full article
The one thing that all enterprises are always on the hunt for is a hardware or software technology that can significantly speed up an existing process or, in some cases, make a new process possible that was not feasible in the past. By definition, EnterpriseTech is very keen on such technologies and it looks like ...Full article
If market valuation is a reliable indicator, then Pure Storage appears to be pure gold to its growing list of investors. Pure Storage, the all-flash enterprise storage array startup, has closed a $225 million late-funding round. The new investments bring Pure Storage's total funding to $470 million. The cash infusion will be used to expand ...Full article
Dell is joining forces with software-defined networking specialist Big Switch Networks to advance its open networking initiative that aims to shake up the traditional networking switch model. Dell has inked a reseller agreement with Big Switch Networks that the company said would extend its drive to forge a disaggregated platform for networking hardware and software. ...Full article
The Docker application container technology that is emerging as a new method of packing and running applications on top of Linux servers has gotten another important blessing as it moves from an interesting project to a production-grade tool that can be used by enterprises. Amazon Web Services is now allowing for Docker containers to run ...Full article
VMware reported healthy revenue and earnings during the first quarter of 2014 as cloud adoption gains steam. The virtualization and cloud infrastructure specialist said its Q1 revenues totaled $1.36 billion, a 14 percent increase over the same quarter last year. Earnings during the period totaled $199 million, the company said, on operating income of $241 ...Full article
Virtual storage shifted to a higher gear this week with new software from PernixData aimed at accelerating virtual applications running on servers equipped with VMware's virtualization wares. PernixData announced an upgrade to its FVP platform that speeds virtual applications using main memory or flash memory in servers. Hence, the company claims FVP 2.0 is suited ...Full article
IBM was planning to do the announcement of the first bunch of Power8-based servers at next week's Impact2014 event in Las Vegas, but the Power Systems division at Big Blue and the OpenPower Foundation that is steering the opening up of Power8 technology decided to reveal some of the feeds and speeds of the new ...Full article
Juniper Networks reported 10 percent year-on-year revenue growth of $1.17 billion in the first quarter, led by strong business in the federal and financial services market. Net income rose 21.5 percent to $110.6 million. The network equipment specialist also announced a pair of cloud deals, one with AT&T and another with a large bank. On ...Full article
Violin Memory was the first of the new breed of flash array companies to go public and the company is trying to stay ahead of the pack by more tightly integrating its storage with various software stacks. The company, which has a new management team, is also picking its fights better and has decided to ...Full article
Microsoft is partnering with datacenter colocation service provider Equinix to deliver its Windows Azure ExpressRoute private network connection service to international customers. Equinix said Azure ExpressRoute would be provided inside its co-located International Business Exchange datacenters. The agreement would allow customers to connect directly to Azure ExpressRoute hybrid cloud services in 16 countries on four ...Full article
The Facebook culture is one of hacking bits of software together to make a complex system and constantly tweaking it to improve its performance, efficiency, and scale. This is a bit harder to do with datacenters and the infrastructure that runs inside of them, but to its credit Facebook brings the same hacker culture to ...Full article
Being a relatively young software stack with lots of new features being created by an excited community, OpenStack has to be on a fairly aggressive update cycle, much as the Linux operating system was back in the early days in the late 1990s and early 2000s. OpenStack does releases in April and October, and this ...Full article
Datacenters that are eager to test out 64-bit ARM server chips with their workloads are going to have to wait a bit longer than they might otherwise like to. Last month, AMD started sampling its "Seattle" chip, the first generation of its Opteron A-Series processors, and the company said this week that it will ship ...Full article
The systems business at IBM continued to stall in the first quarter thanks to product transitions in the Power Systems line, the System x business being sold off to Lenovo and causing many customers to pause their buying, and the System z mainframe being about a year away from a refresh. And it does not ...Full article
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