If number two in any market tries harder, then number three has to really work it to get traction. And that is precisely what Canonical, the corporate entity behind the Ubuntu Server variant of Linux, has been doing for years to get into datacenters. With the launch of Ubuntu Server 14.04 this week, Canonical is ...Full article
IT executives laid out the challenges and opportunities created by cloud computing, open source, and other disruptive technologies during this week's Red Hat summit in San Francisco. With the rise of mobility, social media, big data and cloud computing, "The reality today for the enterprise IT organization is it is a nightmare," warned Steve Bandrowczak, ...Full article
Datacenter construction is forecast to boom over the next four years as demand for datacenter colocation facilities grows and energy regulations prompt upgrades. However, the rise of modular and containerized datacenters could eventually slow growth, a report found. The global market for datacenter construction is expected to register an annual compound growth rate of 21 ...Full article
"The app is king," declared Red Hat's president of products and technologies at the company's annual summit today. Indeed, the focus on applications and how they are ported among virtual and real platforms is driving much of the development around Red Hat's flagship Enterprise Linux operating system. Linux, especially Red Hat's version, has become central ...Full article
Whatever issues that chip giant Intel is facing in the client segment of the computing market, it has very little challenging its authority as a provider of compute engines for the datacenters of the. In the first quarter ended in March, Intel turned in healthy financial results in its Data Center Group, bolstered by recent ...Full article
Technology, rather than budget or efficiency considerations, is driving enterprise decision-making, the head of IBM's cloud operations told the attendees of the opening session of the Red Hat Summit. Deepak Advani, IBM's general manager of cloud and smarter infrastructure, also made the case for a "dynamic cloud," a hybrid public-private environment that "adapts to the ...Full article
VMware is rolling out a disaster recovery service that it says will extend the service to the public cloud by making is less expensive and complex. The vCloud Hybrid Service – Disaster Recovery solution is built on VMware's vSphere hypervisor stack that provides virtualization for X86-based servers. The company said its new service is designed ...Full article
The Fluid Cache for SAN acceleration software that Dell has created to boost the performance of its Compellent storage area network arrays is closer to coming to market. Dell previewed the mix of hardware and software at its Dell World trade show in December last year, and is now providing some more technical details, pricing, ...Full article
The DevOps culture that started out in hyperscale datacenters is coming to the enterprise, and it will no doubt shake up the way that systems and their applications are deployed and maintained. Chef Software may have started out as an open source project to help make it easier to manage machines and code at hyperscale, ...Full article
Genome sequencing designed to determine the complete DNA sequence of an organism is generating petabytes of raw and processed data that is proving extremely difficult to manage and store. Here is a key metric that illustrates the problem: The cost of DNA sequencing is dropping faster than the cost of storing a byte of sequencing ...Full article
When you have a 300 PB data warehouse running atop Hadoop, you do everything in your power to keep from adding another rack of disk drives to this beast. While social network giant Facebook is not afraid to throw a lot of hardware at a scalability problem, its software engineers are always looking for ways ...Full article
The great thing about cloud computing is that it doesn't cost very much to test out an idea. While we expect developers of Web applications to be monkeying around on the clouds, testing out code and business models, energy companies are probably the last thing that anyone would expect to move applications to the public ...Full article
Microsoft has rolled a new version of its Virtual Machine Converter tool aimed squarely at poaching customers from X86 server virtualization leader VMware. Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter 2.0 is pitched as allowing users to convert virtual machines and virtual disk formats from VMware hosts to Microsoft's Hyper-V for on-premise server virtualization and the Windows Azure ...Full article
Enterprises are always looking for an edge to use against the competition, and information technology was created initially and specifically to be that edge. Decades later, computing in its various forms is the foundation of the modern corporation, and companies are still looking for new ways of gaining an advantage. More times than not, that ...Full article
It isn't called Enterprise Linux for nothing. Eleven years ago, when Red Hat decided to get serious about the corporate market, it killed off its hobbyist Linux and created a slower-moving, more predictable Linux distribution. This was not initially a popular decision, but it has panned out for Red Hat, the first and only open ...Full article
Proponents of the Lustre file system maintain it is poised to make the jump from HPC installations into the enterprise, driven by the surging amount of data that companies are pooling. If that prediction pans out, a parallel file system backed by an industry consortium could emerge as a standard across multiple platforms, an industry-sponsored ...Full article
The HPC Linux on Wall Street conference was held in New York City this week, and a lot of the talk at the event was on high frequency trading in the wake of Flash Boys, the new book by Michael Lewis that was announced a week ago causing an uproar in the financial services sector. ...Full article
Global IT spending is projected to jump 3.2 percent this year, led by a big increase in enterprise software, while an expanding cloud infrastructure is helping to drive datacenter systems spending to $143 billion. Overall, Gartner estimates that global spending for devices, datacenters and enterprise software along with IT and telecommunications services will hit $3.8 ...Full article
It is still early days for the commercialization of the Lustre parallel file system. But the brisk business that Terascala, one of several companies that have put some polish onto Lustre to make it more amenable to enterprises, shows that it is indeed taking off outside of traditional supercomputing markets. Terascala, which is based in ...Full article
The cloud is making for strange bedfellows, which may turn out to be another of its attributes as prices decline. Case in point: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is joining a growing list of operating systems running on the Google Cloud Platform. In announcing general availability this week, Google said the move would allow Red ...Full article
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