The Xeon E5 is not one single line of processors, but rather four distinct variations on a theme aimed at difference price, performance, and scalability needs. Two weeks ago, Intel made a big hullaballoo about the Xeon E7 v2 chips, which offer the highest core counts, memory capacity, and NUMA scalability of all of its ...Full article
When it comes to Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC), the innovative 3D technology that Micron Technology is counting on to replace standard DDR3 memory modules, all signs point to go. The memory maker began shipping the first samples of the technology to partners in September, and this week, the Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium (HMCC), the group ...Full article
In-memory databases are going mainstream to accelerate analytics, and if the success of SAP's HANA in-memory database is any guide, then it looks like companies will be looking at deploying in-memory databases for their transaction processing systems, too. The trouble is the NUMA systems that have large memory footprints are not cheap and the dense ...Full article
As funny as it sounds, the standard computing rack is a problem in the datacenter. The physical layout of datacenters is pegged to the dimensions, weight, power draw, and cooling capacity needs of a rack. Hyperscale datacenter operators have been asking their partners not just for custom servers and storage to fit their needs, but ...Full article
As computers get faster and data gets bigger, it is essential that data transfer speeds keep up so networks don't become the bottleneck. This is true whether the transfer is over long-haul or short-haul links. For the latter use case, multimode optical fiber is a popular option. Cheaper than its single-mode cousin, multimode fiber can ...Full article
Sales of servers have always been tied very tightly to the regional and global economies and the ups and downs of various industries. But with the relentless pace of Moore's Law and the dominance of the X86 platform in the datacenters of the world, perhaps X86 servers are the bellwether of economic activity and the ...Full article
Given a choice between developing their own cluster and data management software or buying it off the shelf from third parties, most large enterprises would prefer to buy rather than build. This is not always possible, particularly at companies engaged in innovative businesses outside the norm. Such has been the case with satellite imagery provider ...Full article
Cloud Foundry, the platform cloud framework long associated with VMware and then its Pivotal spinoff, is going the way of OpenStack now that Pivotal intends to establish a formal open governance model and associated non-profit foundation for the open source software. Over the next several months, Pivotal and Cloud Foundry backers EMC, VMware, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, ...Full article
A public cloud is only as good as the networks it links into, and so Microsoft has begun to offer dedicated connections to the Windows Azure public cloud. The links, called ExpressRoute, are akin to the Direct Connect service at Amazon Web Services and enable users to bypass the public Internet. "ExpressRoute offers private, reliable ...Full article
Banks, hedge funds, high frequency traders, and other players in the capital markets have a need for speed. IBM thinks that its Power-based systems are better suited for running their applications than the current crop of X86 systems. That is why some equities trading desks in New York and London are putting Power7+ machines through ...Full article
Hyperscale cloud operators like Facebook and Rackspace Hosting came to Taiwanese manufacturer Quanta Computer several years ago when they wanted to design and build custom machines tuned up for their specific workloads. Quanta Cloud Technology, the server and storage sales arm of the $34 billion company, is looking to repeat the success it has had ...Full article
Rackspace recently broke ground on a 130,000 square foot, 10 megawatt datacenter, in the West Sussex region of England, south of London. The US-based cloud and hosting provider together with datacenter specialists Digital Realty Trust are counting on the locale's chilly clime to provide free cooling to its massive server complex. This is story that ...Full article
Sales of servers, storage, switching, software, and services at Hewlett-Packard's Enterprise Group were up a smidgen in its most recent quarter, but like its peers in the IT space, HP is having trouble boosting its profits in this area because of intense competition. The decision by IBM to sell off its X86 server business to ...Full article
The world is increasingly being shaped by computers, and nowhere is that more evident than in the financial space. Although much of the advanced algorithm action has taken place in the equities world, foreign-exchange trading is now experiencing a similar disruptive wave, with the industry replacing many of its foreign-exchange traders with computer platforms. Allegations ...Full article
Since Intel entered the server market formally in 1993, it has used its prowess in manufacturing and its ever-expanding sophistication in chip design to knock countless competitive chips out of the market. The success of Intel's Xeon strategy cannot be denied, especially when you consider that Intel has been able to turn its staunchest rivals ...Full article
The Lucera cloud that is dedicated to high frequency trading, liquidity matching, and foreign exchange has opened up its doors to customers after building it out for the past several months. This spinout of financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald is feeling pretty good about the technology edge it has over any potential competitors – including ...Full article
Memory maker Micron Technology has a bullish roadmap for DRAM, flash, and other technologies that will very likely be in a system, switch, or other device near you in the not-too-distant future. Micron talked up its technology roadmap and other aspects of its business at a recent analyst day, and CEO Mark Durkan started off ...Full article
One of the things that Dell committed to do once it went private was to invest more in research and development. Last summer, while the privatization effort was still under way, the company quietly formed Dell Research and put Jai Menon, a top storage and systems researcher formerly from IBM, in charge of the division. ...Full article
The in-memory HANA database designed by SAP to radically improve the performance of queries and transaction processing has been a boon to the company. It is the fastest growing product in the company's long history – and that is saying a lot considering how popular its R/3 enterprise resource planning software was in the 1990s. ...Full article
In today's capital markets, whoever can send and receive real-time market data the fastest has a tremendous advantage. The incentive to execute financial transactions ahead of the competition means that every nanosecond counts. When it comes to the financial arms race, or the race to zero latency, traditional data feeds aren't fast enough. The need ...Full article
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