The hardware business at IBM has fallen on hard times in recent months, and the difficulties continued for Big Blue as it wrapped up 2013. And so IBM's new chief financial officer, Martin Schroeter, let Wall Street know in a conference call that the company would be doing a workforce rebalancing – an IBM euphemism ...Full article
IBM has added another member to its OpenPower Consortium, which seeks to expand the use of Power processors in commercial systems. The Chinese government has made no secret that it wants to have an indigenous chip design and manufacturing business, and the newly formed Suzhou PowerCore aims to be one of the players in the ...Full article
Cloud computing juggernaut Amazon Web Services has forged a new class of server instances for its EC2 compute cloud that feature the kind of high I/O that it says are better suited to transactional applications and NoSQL databases like Cassandra and MongoDB. AWS is also slashing prices on its S3 and EBS storage services, which is ...Full article
The rumors have started up again that IBM is getting ready to leave the X86 server business, with Dell and Fujitsu being mentioned as possible suitors. With the large hyperscale customers like Google, Amazon, and Facebook making their own systems and comprising roughly a quarter of server volumes these days, you can't blame Big Blue ...Full article
The first fruits of IBM's labors after the acquisition of Texas Memory Systems back in August have come to market, and the new FlashSystem 840 is the first all-flash array from Big Blue that breaks the 1 million I/O operations per second barrier. To be precise, a fully loaded FlashSystem 840 using 4 KB files ...Full article
It is easy to predict what the big cloud builders and hyperscale datacenter operators are going to do: They are going to build more glasshouses and buy or build more servers and storage. Predicting what other enterprises are going to do is a bit trickier, as Intel found out in its most recent quarter. In ...Full article
Engineers at the University of Texas at Arlington have developed a new technology that could come in handy when electronic devices run out of power. Their idea stems from a source of power generation that we are all familiar with; windmills.Full article
Chip maker Intel operates one of the largest clusters in the world to push Moore’s Law along with its electronic design automation systems, as EnterpriseTech has previously revealed. But the $53 billion company is also a one of the largest manufacturers in the world. As such, it faces the same challenges in the datacenter as ...Full article
IBM, like other system makers, is eager to start selling new machines based on Intel’s forthcoming “Ivy Bridge-EX” Xeon E7 v2 processors. So eager, in fact, that it is rolling out a new high-end design for its System x rack machines and PureFlex converged systems ahead of Intel’s launch of its most powerful Xeon engines. ...Full article
You probably haven't heard of Openwave Messaging. But if you get email, voice mail, or other messaging services from a tier-one telecommunications firm, chances are fairly good that you have used its white-label messaging products at some point. And as a result of Openwave's recent standardization on the Apache Cassandra database from DataStax, you are ...Full article
During today’s visit to Raleigh, North Carolina, President Obama came to North Carolina State University to announce the next manufacturing innovation institute. The “Next Generation Power Electronics Innovation Institute” will bring together six universities and 18 private-sector companies throughout the region to further drive research in next-generation power electronics.Full article
With the NFL playoffs drawing to a close, the four final teams are willing to do whatever it takes to defeat their opponent and make it to the Super Bowl. While the players on these teams are some of the best athletes in the world, at some point they must...Full article
Upstart system maker Nutanix, which has created a mashed up distributed file system and virtual server environment that can be clustered to support a variety of enterprise workloads, has just brought in a monster $101 million in its fourth round of funding. Nutanix is one of the big names in this expanding field of converged ...Full article
Systems maker SGI and application and database software maker SAP are teaming up to create a big, bad system for running SAP's HANA in-memory database. The partnership will, says SGI, increase the opportunity for selling its UV shared memory systems by at least an order of magnitude and will allow the largest SAP shops to ...Full article
Like many modern corporations that exist mainly to supply a service over the Internet, Facebook would like to use open source software wherever practical in its infrastructure and with as little change as possible. But given the immense scale that the social network operates at – it has hundreds of thousands of servers operating in ...Full article
Ancestry.com is dedicated to discovering, preserving, and sharing family histories, and it knows all about the issues of scaling up IT operations to match a growing number of users. The company curates a progressively larger and richer set of data that describes who we are and how we relate, and this causes another set of ...Full article
At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) taking place in Las Vegas, Nevada, NVIDIA announced that it’s Tegra K1 mobile processor will be used in autonomous cars of the future. Currently being utilized by the world’s top ten energy-efficient computers, the Tegra K1 has already gained attention in the HPC community.Full article
As a part of President Obama's Material's Genome Initiative, many researchers have set their sights on developing materials the likes of which we've never seen. But engineers at Duke University are using supercomputers to back a materials project that aims to do just the opposite: find a metal that performs like platinum, but at a ...Full article
Oracle bought Xsigo Systems back in June 2013 so it could virtualize network links for server clusters and their storage across local area networks, and now it has snapped up Corente to provide virtual links over wide area networks to connect datacenters to each other or to public clouds. Both the Xsigo and Corente products ...Full article
A massive National Security Agency datacenter under construction at its Fort Meade, Maryland headquarters is going a bit greener than it otherwise would by securing a huge volume of wastewater reclaimed from a nearby sewage treatment plant to cool it. The NSA announced that it was breaking ground on the High Performance Computing Center-2 upgrade ...Full article
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