While the forthcoming “Pascal” GPUs stole most of the show at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose this week, these GPUs won’t be here until 2016. But motorheads who like iron did not walk out of the conference empty handed. Nvidia is actually shipping an updated version of its Visual Computing Appliance (VCA) equipped ...Full article
The cloud pricing wars are hotter than ever. Yesterday Google announced some major price cuts from its live event in San Francisco, and today Amazon Web Services got out its red pen and chopped prices. At the AWS Summit in San Francisco, AWS senior vice president Andy Jassy took to the stage to detail the ...Full article
Everybody wants the fastest network they can get, but speed increases or latency reductions are usually not immediately affordable to all but the extreme cases. It takes time for a new technology to ramp, volumes to build, technology to improve, and costs to come down. So it has been with 100 Gb/sec Ethernet switching. But ...Full article
At its Cloud Platform Live event in San Francisco, Google launched several updates to its cloud services portfolio that aim to make it more competitive. Chief among these were massive price reductions, such that Google's cloud services are now priced far below those of its rivals. The company is also reducing the complexity of its ...Full article
Graphics chip and GPU accelerator maker Nvidia is hosting its GPU Technical Conference in its stomping grounds of San Jose, California this week, and company co-founder and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang tore up the GPU roadmap, replacing the future “Volta” GPU expected around 2016 or so with a much better device that is code-named “Pascal.” The ...Full article
UlltraDIMM memory channel storage, which puts flash memory in the same slots as main memory in servers, is starting to ship from IBM, and its advent has a lot of companies – both users and suppliers – mulling over their flash storage strategies. But don’t think for a moment that UlltraDIMMs are suddenly going to ...Full article
Companies that operate hyperscale datacenters have gone to great lengths to boost efficiency, and to show their commitment to green computing some of these cloud giants are sharing their designs with others in the community. Facebook is at the forefront of this pro-transparency movement. Last April, the company debuted real-time public dashboards that track and ...Full article
Officially, IBM has said that would be launching its twelve-core Power8 processors in new Power Systems servers and PureSystems converged systems sometime around the middle of the year. But as EnterpriseTech has previously reported, the word on the street is that IBM is getting ready to get the first Power8 machines into the field sometime ...Full article
Since its establishment in 1979, the National Credit Card Center (NCCC), the largest credit card processing center in Taiwan, has been working to enhance credit card functionality and services through the application of new technologies. The NCCC handles an enormous volume of business requests, up to several million transactions per day, on tight deadlines. So ...Full article
Going on six years now, America has been waiting to see if there will be any repercussions for Wall Street banking firms for their role in the global economic crisis. This week, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is expanding efforts to "shine a light on unseemly practices that cater to high frequency traders at ...Full article
Like many enterprises these days, chip maker AMD is looking to consolidate its myriad datacenters and smaller data closets to save operating expenses and to drive up the utilization on its machinery. As part of a massive company reorganization that has seen AMD expand into chips for game consoles and ARM server chips, the company ...Full article
Search engine giant Google has an infrastructure and platform service called Cloud Platform, and it is up against some pretty stiff competition from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Windows Azure, and a few others. Google is years behind AWS with infrastructure services, so it has to brag about the oomph it can bring to bear and ...Full article
There is more than one way to skin the software-defined network cat, and Midokura and Cumulus Networks are teaming up to provide an alternative to various OpenFlow implementations as well as VMware's NSX overlay method. Cumulus Networks, as EnterpriseTech has previously reported, is on the point of an open networking movement that is being encouraged ...Full article
One of the founding themes of EnterpriseTech is that the hardware and software approaches employed by hyperscale datacenter operators, which squeeze more work out of machines with less energy than commercial-grade hardware and software, will become prevalent in the coming years. The analysts at Gartner agree, and they have said so in a recent report ...Full article
VMware has been touting the benefits of the software-defined datacenter for years, and has made some major investments in virtual networking and virtual storage to make this possible. Now, the rumors are going around that VMware and its parent company, storage giant EMC, are working on a converged system code-named Project Mystic that would bring ...Full article
This week prominent Linux vendor Red Hat added more flexible pricing options for its hosted Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud offering, OpenShift Online – a decision no doubt spurred by the harsh realities of cloud economics. The new Bronze pricing scheme was the focal point of a recent blog, which details several customer-friendly changes. All pricing plans ...Full article
Four years ago, software giant Oracle bought Sun Microsystems and got into the systems business. Sun's business was in decline, and kept falling at a steep and steady rate for many years. But after years of paring down the product line and focusing on so-called engineered systems – clusters built with very precise components and ...Full article
Microsoft is joining the in-memory database party with the release to manufacturing of SQL Server 2014 and its "Hekaton" feature. The new SQL engine has been optimized for in-memory processing, and can boost application performance by as much as a factor of 25. Hekaton is not a bolt-on product like many in-memory databases out there, ...Full article
How much iron does it take to run enterprise application giant SAP? Less than you might think, and even less now that the company has moved all of its internal systems to its own HANA in-memory database. The setup at SAP may also say a lot about how little iron it might take to run ...Full article
Facebook announced it will be using new lean manufacturing concepts, developed as part of the Open Compute Project (OCP), for the construction of a second building at its existing Luleå, Sweden datacenter location. Luleå 2, as the site is known, will be the first Facebook facility to employ the company's new Rapid Deployment Data Center ...Full article
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