Intel has a busy couple of months ahead refreshing its Xeon server processors, and companies that are getting ready to launch new software projects this year will be in position to take advantage of better hardware. That may sound backwards, but software drives hardware, not the other way around, and by the middle of the ...Full article
From box-office hits to television gold like Star Trek, the actors in these films and shows have donned eye-opening spacesuits. The fashion predictions have been entirely off thus far and none have managed to predict what Dava Newman is currently designing for future space explorers.Full article
The first thing anyone wants to know when the new year kicks off is will this one be better than the last one. You can't know this ahead of time, of course. The only way to be sure is to live through the year. But, prognosticators are paid to make their predictions and thereby give ...Full article
Big Blue will kick off the new season of server announcements at an event held at the New York Stock Exchange on January 16 and in a webcast that will be hosted by the top executives in its System x division on that same day. The word on the street is that IBM will have ...Full article
Seagate Technology is one of the three suppliers of disk drives in the world alongside Western Digital and Toshiba, and now it is getting into the enterprise disk array business by virtue of its deal to acquire Xyratex. The deal, which is expected to close in May or June, will also give Seagate a separate ...Full article
Just after EnterpriseTech went on hiatus for the holiday, ARM server chip pioneer Calxeda closed its doors. This was something of a shock to those who have been championing ARM-based processors as an alternative to X86 server chips from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. Despite the shutdown, Calxeda's technology could be picked up by any ...Full article
On Friday Google announced that it has completed its acquisition of Boston Dynamics, the robotics company famous for creating some of the world’s most advanced robots. Boston Dynamics makes the eighth robotics company that Google has picked up in the last six months, although the company hasn’t yet revealed any specific plans for its newfound ...Full article
Despite the potential for improving patient care, a number of healthcare companies have been slow to go digital. Although some medical organizations have pointed to the cost of implementation and the uncertain return on investment as reasons to stay away, one study now suggests that the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is keeping ...Full article
The Amazon Web Services subsidiary of the online retailing giant is expanding its cloud into China, one of the more difficult markets for any IT vendor to crack. China skipped from landlines directly to cell phones, and it is a bit of a wonder that it did not jump from a relative scarcity of IT ...Full article
If you’ve ever spent half an hour filling out paperwork in your physician’s waiting room, you know that the amount of information doctor’s offices face every day can be overwhelming. Now, a growing number of of healthcare organizations say that it is having too much data rather than too little that can bog down decision-making. ...Full article
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/computerclassroom.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" border="0" />Already a number of universities have worked to make relevant courses available to cultivate a bigger, more capable workforce, but these classes can err on the side of abstraction, which has led DeVry University to join up with Intel and offer their own digital manufacturing course of ...Full article
Like all IT equipment suppliers, Dell had aspirations of building its own public cloud. But unlike its peers, Dell decided earlier this year to mothball its public cloud and focus on helping other public clouds build and sell their infrastructure services while at the same time helping enterprises build their own private clouds. Time will ...Full article
At its DellWorld extravaganza in its hometown of Austin, Texas this week, Dell was showing off a new implementation of its Fluid Cache caching software, this one tuned up as a front-end for storage area networks. The Fluid Cache software, which was launched earlier this year to goose the performance of direct-attached storage in PowerEdge ...Full article
The "Ivy Bridge" revamp of Intel's Xeon server processor line is not quite yet complete, but it is getting close. The "Ivy Bridge-EX" Xeon E7 v2 chip for machines with four and eight sockets using Intel's chipsets and spanning even more sockets using non-Intel chipsets, are supposed to ship to server makers by the end ...Full article
Customers who are in the middle of buying Exadata database clusters from Oracle had better put a hold on those deals and check out the new Exadata X4-2 machines that the company has just rolled out. And those who were looking at fat node implementations of the database engines would be wise to wait and ...Full article
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/DARPAAV.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="58" border="0" />Less than a decade after the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) gave the greenlight on autonomous vehicle research, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has driven self-driving cars closer to reality, demonstrating that it’s not a question of if driverless cars will grace our highways and backroads, ...Full article
As Lebanon prepares to usher in a number of oil and gas giants that will bid on drilling contracts next month, a growing party of experts are voicing support for big data in hopes of making the country a bigger player in the global oil sector. These representatives from energy and IT alike gathered on ...Full article
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/spacex.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="48" border="0" />SpaceX, the space transport company founded and run by Elon Musk, has begun a new endeavor that they hope could transform the space industry.Full article
A month ago Dell went private, getting Wall Street off its back for the first time in many decades, and the DellWorld customer and partner event this week down in its hometown of Austin, Texas is a coming out party of sorts. The event will feature some product announcements, such as an upgraded EqualLogic storage ...Full article
The storage system engineers at Hewlett-Packard are goosing the performance of various arrays this week through a mix of software updates and peppier components. The idea is to make a little noise about storage at the Discover customer and partner event in Barcelona, Spain, and set HP up for some sales in 2014. The 3PAR ...Full article
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