Intel and several key partners are gearing up to release 800 Gbps optical cables, designed with new MXC connector technology, to support 21st century communications. The networking cables could be headed to a supercomputer or datacenter near you this year. Developed by Corning at Intel's request, the multi-fiber connector employs a unique plug and receptacle ...Full article
When the folks at Shannon Medical Center decided to begin a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) project to eliminate traditional PCs, their research showed how critical I/O would be to the success of the project. But when the 400-bed hospital actually implemented the flash-based array from Violin Memory, they were surprised by the impact it had ...Full article
Ethernet, InfiniBand, and the handful of high-speed, low-latency interconnects that have been designed for supercomputers and large shared memory systems are going to soon have a new rival: PCI-Express switching. The idea might sound a bit strange, but it bears some consideration. Particularly with two companies – PLX Technologies and A3Cube – readying two different ...Full article
VMware previewed its Virtual SAN software late last week, and EnterpriseTech gave you the feeds and speeds. The software is available today, and for some reason VMware didn't want to talk about the packaging and pricing for vSAN last week but wanted to wait until it shipped. vSAN, as we already explained, creates a virtual ...Full article
In finance, an option or derivative is a contract that gives a firm the right, under certain conditions, to buy or sell an underlying asset or instrument. Financial firms use options to reduce the risks associated with investing. While options can add balance to a portfolio and limit exposure to potential threats, they are complex ...Full article
SGI started out as a workstation maker, expanded into supercomputing, and merged with an innovator in hyperscale datacenter systems. The company knows the kinds of systems that governments, research institutions, and large Web application providers need, and it is good at delivering them. Like others who peddle such high-end systems, SGI wants to take what ...Full article
Established in 2000, the University of Queensland's Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) in Brisbane, Australia has become leading center for molecular bioscience research. The Queensland Centre for Medical Genomics (QCMG), which is part of the Institute, uses SGI's LiveArc data management to support its human cancer genome sequencing work. LiveArc manages the QCMG metadata and ...Full article
The financial services sector adopted Java as a programming language because being able to recode applications and algorithms constantly is a competitive advantage and Java is easier to program than C, C++, or other alternatives. But Java has its issues. Or more precisely, the Java virtual machine, the construct of an idealized system that Java ...Full article
Like many companies, ClearDB has tried a bunch of things to get itself going. Having found some success as a provider of tools that make MySQL databases redundant, more secure, and ready for cloud deployment, the company is putting the finishing touches on a new set of tools, code-named Project Halo, that will be able ...Full article
VMware was the first mover on virtualization for X86 systems and has benefitted mightily from the wave it started a decade ago to push up the utilization on servers and make systems more resilient and malleable. Storage and networking need to be virtualized, too, and VMware wants to do both. Sometime this week VMware will ...Full article
The central theme of the most recent AWS Summit was how different industries are transforming the way they do business with cloud computing. During the keynote address of Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO, a number of Amazon Web Services customers were invited to share their experiences running and building applications in the AWS Cloud. To speak ...Full article
The conventional wisdom at large enterprises that deal with truly enormous datasets is that they can't keep it all online. At some point, because of the high cost of disk storage, the argument goes, some of the least-frequently used data has to be pushed off to massive tape libraries and managed by archiving and retrieval ...Full article
Software giant SAP is announcing new packaging and transparent pricing for its HANA in-memory database running on its own SAP Cloud. The announcement comes as SAP is claiming to have set the Guinness World Record for the largest data warehouse in the world with a hybrid machine that marries its HANA in-memory database with its ...Full article
Microsoft's new chief Satya Nadella finished up his first month as the head of the software giant with some internal restructuring. Two of the company's top executives, Tony Bates and Tami Reller, will be leaving the company while former political operative Mark Penn and longtime marketing executive Chris Capossela will be stepping into new roles. ...Full article
IBM has been telling Wall Street and customers to expect its Power8 processor and the initial systems using them to launch sometime around the middle of this year, but it looks like they may get here a little bit earlier if the rumors running around are right. According to sources who are familiar with Big ...Full article
Red Hat is going to be bringing application runtime and database servers of Windows platforms to its OpenShift platform cloud, and some big financial services companies are, as it turns out, driving this capability. Joe Fernandes, OpenShift product manager at Red Hat, tells EnterpriseTech that a large financial services company in the Asia/Pacific region – ...Full article
SUSE Linux has opened up the beta testing of its next-generation Enterprise Server 12 operating, the first major update of its Linux platform since early 2009. The pace of change for the server operating systems has slowed down considerably in recent years, but there is still plenty of work to be done to keep the ...Full article
IBM entered 2014 hitting the cloud drum hard. Taking a page from tech titans like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services, Big Blue wants to make it as simple as possible for enterprises to develop and deploy applications. For workloads that require high-performance hardware and the software to manage workloads on it, IBM has added ...Full article
When people talk about scale in the IT industry these days, more times than not they mean one of two things. The first is called scale up, and this is the very old-fashioned way of making a computer get more work done. The second is called scale out, which is a slightly newer technique. And ...Full article
The cloud, in its many forms, is changing the nature of servers and storage and is therefore transforming the overall market for systems and storage. Nothing makes this more clear than the quarterly server data coming out of IDC, which has begun to track density-optimized systems and machines made by original design manufacturers separately from ...Full article
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