Big companies support thousands of users on their applications, they have big databases behind them, and they therefore need big iron. For those who want to migrate off of RISC and proprietary systems to X86 machines of similar heft, Intel is finally bringing an "Ivy Bridge" update to its high-end Xeon E7 processors to market. ...Full article
Even if you are not thinking of buying a big Sparc/Solaris server, some new math by Oracle might get you to thinking about shared memory machines as opposed to clusters. This is particularly important as Intel is getting ready to revamp its high-end Xeon E7 processor line and SGI and Hewlett-Packard, and perhaps others, are ...Full article
Cloud computing has emerged as a popular model for providing on-demand, network-based access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources, including networks, servers, storage, applications, and services. While there are many commercial services providing computing resources as-a-service, among them Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Windows Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, these services typically do not ...Full article
Priceline.com is one of the early Internet startups, and as such it has built a lot of its own technology for gathering up pricing information on airfares, hotel rooms, and car rentals. In recent years, it has increased the distribution of data. So it not only needs to gather pricing information quickly from myriad sources, ...Full article
Every innovative product finds its natural place in the market, and that seems to have happened with the Unified Computing System, a converged server-network platform that Cisco Systems launched five years ago, reshaping the enterprise server and networking landscape. UCS sales ramped fast out of the gate, and Cisco quickly became a player in blade ...Full article
Ever since Google joined as one of the first members of the OpenPower Consortium that IBM started last year, everyone has been wondering what Google is up to. The search engine giant is, in fact, building prototype servers based on IBM's twelve-core Power8 processors, chips that are due to ship in commercial systems made by ...Full article
Atlantis Computing has carved out a niche for itself in the datacenter by virtualizing desktops and storing them in main memory in server farms for fast access. Some of its biggest customers, including its flagship account, JPMorgan Chase, wanted to accelerate other workloads besides virtual desktops, and so Atlantis set out to develop a more ...Full article
IBM may be looking to part ways with its semiconductor manufacturing business. Citing a person familiar with the matter, the Wall Street Journal reports that IBM is considering selling off its manufacturing operations, but would retain its chip design capability. The company is believed to have hired investment bank Goldman Sachs to seek out potential ...Full article
Trying to figure out what 44 million of us in 41 different countries might want to watch next is not just a matter of guessing for video streaming service Netflix. It is a science, and the company wants to do a better job of it by deploying machine learning algorithms in the cloud and accelerating ...Full article
While the OpenStack cloud controller has certainly garnered lots of praise and enthusiasm in the past couple of years, there are still not that many public clouds based on OpenStack and there are plenty of clouds, both large and small, that are not based on homegrown cloud controllers. This presents a management problem, and one ...Full article
For some workloads, the most important thing is cutting out as much latency as possible from the hardware and software stack. For many of those same latency-sensitive customers, simplifying the infrastructure is equally important. And that is why the Freedom Server-Switch from Pluribus Networks, which has just come out of stealth mode, is going to ...Full article
When it comes to determining the best cloud provider, the answer depends on many variables. A team of researchers from the Polytechnic School at the University of São Paulo is helping to increase the accuracy of the decision-making process by analyzing different aspects of cloud costs and performance. Cloud computing, with an emphasis on elasticity, ...Full article
Canonical, the maker of the Ubuntu distribution of Linux, does not have the same kind of footprint in enterprise datacenters that rivals Red Hat and SUSE Linux do. But the company is trying to do an end run around them, and has set its sights on the future of hyperscale computing in the enterprise. Red ...Full article
Breaking into the content caching and delivery market against industry juggernaut Akamai Technologies is about as easy as breaking into the datacenter networking space against Cisco Systems. But, CDN upstart Fastly and networking upstart Arista Networks are teaming up to do just that. Arista may still be in the Others category when market share numbers ...Full article
There is pent up demand for IT infrastructure upgrades as systems are aging in the datacenters of the world, and that is pushing up demand for hardware and software. However, all of the virtualization tools that are available for servers, storage, and increasingly networking, are at the same time driving up utilization and holding down ...Full article
Why does being green in the datacenter matter? That is the question that the people responsible for the electric bills at the massive datacenters run by Microsoft, Facebook, and Rackspace Hosting took on at the recent Open Compute Summit. The Open Compute Project got off the ground in April 2010 when Facebook open sourced the ...Full article
People have been talking about 64-bit ARM server processors for so long that it is tough at times to remember that they actually have not existed until fairly recently. Applied Micro is just starting to sample its first X-Gene 1 chips now, and AMD is getting set to do so in March with its Opteron ...Full article
The search is over, and perhaps a calmer and more focused era is beginning for Microsoft now that it has tapped insider Satya Nadella to become its next chief executive officer. Concurrent with the appointment of Nadella to the CEO post, Microsoft announced that co-founder and largest shareholder Bill Gates would be stepping down as ...Full article
It has been almost a year since the first rumors surfaced that IBM was looking to sell off its X86 server business and that Lenovo Group emerged as the front runner. The $2.3 billion deal was announced two weeks ago, and customers and competitors alike have had time to absorb the news and start pondering ...Full article
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working with funding from server maker Quanta and flash chip maker Samsung, are combining flash storage and field programmable gate arrays in a new way that is yielding a peppy and scalable storage cluster that rivals that bandwidth and low latency of very high-end storage area network or ...Full article
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