If hackers want to knock out server infrastructure, they might not need to target the machines with malware to corrupt their software stack. They might just use malware to rev up all the machines instead, causing circuit breakers to trip in the datacenter. Between the data explosion and the mainstreaming of cloud services, datacenters have ...Full article
When you look at a switch, you are looking at the vestiges of a proprietary past that many of the largest companies in the world want to do away with. Intel and Broadcom supply most of the Ethernet switch ASICs used for top-of-rack switches today, and hyperscale datacenter operators and large enterprises have been pushing ...Full article
The major markets that Mellanox Technologies sells its switch chips, switches, and server adapter cards into are inherently choppy and often driven by very large deals in its sales channel. So comparisons of its financial figures can be tough. Such was the case in the company's fourth quarter. Setting some very tough compares aside, Mellanox ...Full article
Events like the Open Compute Summit are like show-and-tell for hardware geeks. It is a chance for system designers, builders, and in this case customers to give their peers a sense of what they have been working on. There usually is not a lot of detail about these systems, but it is fun just the ...Full article
AMD and Applied Micro, the two biggest and most vocal of the remaining ARM server chip makers now that upstart Calxeda has shut down, have taken up weaving. Both companies are integrating network and fabric interfaces into their forthcoming 64-bit ARM chips aimed at servers, and they provided a little more detail about their on-chip ...Full article
Server virtualization giant VMware, majority-owned by EMC, had a banner year, punching through the $5 billion mark in total revenue for 2013. In fact, the company posted $5.21 billion in sales, up 12 percent from 2012. Earnings were bolstered by renewal contracts and demand for new management and automation software tools As part of its ...Full article
A lot of things will have to come together before an ecosystem of processors and system makers coalesces around ARM processors. First, companies have to actually get 64-bit chips into the field, as the collapse of ARM server chip startup Calxeda so aptly demonstrates. ARM chips are the CPUs of choice for smartphones, tablets, and ...Full article
What started out as a desire by Facebook to control its own infrastructure five years ago and evolved into the Open Compute Project to open source hardware and datacenter designs is transforming the way infrastructure is designed and manufactured in the IT industry. Nothing could make this more clear than the fact that financial services powerhouses ...Full article
Social media giant Facebook has been pushing the limits of cold storage with disk technology, and as it hinted it might be doing a year ago, the company has taken cold storage to even lower temperatures with a new robotic library it designed based on Blu-ray discs. The setup can cram an amazing 1 PB ...Full article
By virtue of its many online applications and its fast-growing Windows Azure compute and storage cloud, Microsoft has become one of the dominant players in the cloud in a relatively short period of time. While Microsoft is a tough competitor in any market it plays in, the company has learned to cooperate when that is ...Full article
Big companies like to orchestrate their announcements, and it is probably not a coincidence that IBM announced its plan to build out its SoftLayer public cloud just ahead of its fourth quarter financial report, which showed its systems business being hammered, and also ahead of its landmark $2.3 billion deal to sell off its X86 ...Full article
Microsoft promised last year it would compete head-to-head with Amazon Web Services for compute and storage capacity on its public cloud, and it has made good on that promise by cutting prices for storage in the wake of a price cut last week by AWS. As is typical these days, Microsoft made the announcement via ...Full article
Intel and IBM may be experiencing weaker-than-expected revenues from the enterprise sector, but switch and router maker Juniper Networks had a nice bump from enterprises and beat Wall Street's expectations in the fourth quarter thanks to that. This is good news for Shaygan Kheradpir, the company's new chief executive officer and the former chief technology ...Full article
If you are in the hunt for new switches in your datacenter, Cisco Systems has just revamped portions of its Nexus line of top-of-rack and end-of-row devices. Cisco has also created new flash arrays based on its own Unified Computing System rack-based servers that are based on technology it got through its acquisition of flash ...Full article
Unlike traditional energy sources, wind is a trouble to tame, which has led GE to turn to advanced simulations at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to put the technology on track to cover 12 percent of the world's energy production.Full article
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/_Gravemaker-by-Markek-Rakucak.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="71" border="0" />Local Motors, a vehicle innovator, and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have announced a new partnership that they hope will bring change to the automotive industry.Full article
In the modern hyperscale datacenter, companies such as Google and Amazon code their applications so they span multiple servers and replicate work and data sufficiently that the crash of a single machine does not bring down the application. In enterprise datacenters, this may be the way applications will work in the future, but for now, ...Full article
The many thousands of large enterprise customers, government agencies, and supercomputer labs that depend on IBM System x, BladeCenter, iDataPlex, and PureSystems servers will soon have a new partner: Lenovo Group. The Chinese company is paying $2.3 billion to acquire IBM's X86 server business. The two companies have also hammered out reseller agreements that will ...Full article
AMD is taking a trip down the Opteron 6300 lane one last time with the launch of the "Warsaw" variants of its high-end server processors. The company has been pretty vague about what would be in store with this update to this family of Opteron chips, which are aimed at two-socket and four-socket servers. Rather ...Full article
A month ago, the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials (DRC) commenced. The main goal of the event was to aid in the development of robots that will someday respond to natural or even man-made disasters. At this year’s DRC, prototype robots from 16 teams were put through a series of trials in which they were to ...Full article
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