A year and a half after the purchase of XtremIO, EMC has finally joined the all-flash game with its XtremIO scale-out storage array, which has started shipping. Joining a field largely pioneered by start-ups, EMC’s entrance on the field is noteworthy in that it marks the first general purpose all-flash array from an OEM that ...Full article
Amazon Web Services doesn't see the world the same way that most system makers do, Andy Jassy, senior vice president of the cloud computing arm of the retailing giant, explained in his keynote address at the re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. Those who peddle systems for a living think that companies will continue to build ...Full article
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/800px-Walmart_exterior.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="62" border="0" />At a time when finding a job is first on the minds of many, companies continue to outsource positions overseas. However, at the National Retail Federation’s annual convention back in January 2013...Full article
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Apple_gray_logo.png" alt="" width="95" height="95" border="0" />Apple Inc., the company most well known for putting those sleek iPhones in our pockets, has just spent $10.5 billion on new manufacturing technology that will help to enhance not only those iPhones, but other Apple products as well.Full article
The Open Compute Project started by Facebook to do open source hardware may have to change its name soon, now that its Networking project to disaggregate switches and create an open ecosystem of hardware and software components is picking up steam. The Networking project was established six months ago, and unlike other projects to date, ...Full article
If you happen to examine a list of possible side effects for any given medication, it’s plain to see that for every advancement pharmaceutical science, knowing exactly how a drug will behave is far from cut and dry. But Data2Discovery has come out of the woodwork to shed some light on the issue. The early-stage ...Full article
Datachambers, a datacenter operator that offers co-location and hosting services across North Carolina, has tapped Extreme Networks to be its Ethernet switch provider as part of a build out of its operations. The move displaces gear by Cisco Systems. Thanks to the partnership between Datachambers and Extreme, the datacenter operator is also getting its hands ...Full article
When it comes to online sales, it's no surprise that, in the face of online retail giants such as Amazon, the superstore chain Walmart has struggled. But according to Walmart executive Gibu Thomas, the company may soon overcome this hurdle as they integrate their digital retail strategies with the traditional ones that have served them ...Full article
In hostile territory, even the most unsuspecting of circumstances can put service men and women in danger. But in addition to the combat helmets and armored vests, troops are now turning to data to keep them safe in the battlefield. At the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research, surgeons have created a database called the ...Full article
To honor veterans who’ve dedicated themselves to clean energy and climate security, Dr. Ernest Moniz, Secretary of Energy joined together with other federal officials at a “Champions of Change” event at the White House. In the event’s spotlight were 12 veterans who have applied the skills they learned in the service to protecting our climate ...Full article
Number two has to try harder, and it is not easy being the second-largest public cloud operator behind Amazon Web Services. This is why Rackspace Hosting continues to innovate with its hardware and software infrastructure and is ramping up its sales and marketing efforts. This is putting its profits under pressure, however. In the third ...Full article
AMD has some stiff competition in the server space. The company thinks that the combination of CPUs and GPUs together, what it calls Accelerated Processing Units (APU), has a place in the datacenter. And it is fostering the software development tools that make it easier to dispatch programs to the GPUs on its chips to ...Full article
Be careful about giving easy access to computing. You may end up with far more demand than you planned. This is precisely the position that the IT department supporting the application development infrastructure at Nokia Solutions and Networks is in after rolling out a cloud to support the creating of software and the simulation of ...Full article
Cloud computing is making enterprises more flexible than ever. The ability to spin up computing resources, take as much or as little as is needed, and then pay for them like a utility has become a game-changer for businesses. While the breadth of services and flexibility of clouds are compelling, in some ways it is ...Full article
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/playground.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="71" border="0" />It’s no secret that going virtual to engineer and test new cars, planes or even consumer products saves money, particularly if it means going through multiple versions of a single design. But at October’s Matlab Expo, software engineers and scientists came together to paint a new image ...Full article
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/101180457-ATS-Dave-Collins_manufacturing_r.240x160.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="63" border="0" />As our nation celebrates Veteran’s Day, one industry may be celebrating more than others. In recent years, many manufacturing plants have experienced a skills gap in their workforce, but more are turning to veterans to fill that gap.Full article
The Internet of Things (IoT) isn’t just coming to a factory near you; soon, tech leaders like GE and Intel hope to see connected devices used across industries and even in the home. But to connect so many items on such a large scale, something about today’s paradigm has got to give, or so Intel ...Full article
If you want to get a rough sense of how mature a Hadoop installation is, all you need to do is count the server nodes. The largest Hadoop clusters in the world are at Internet companies and have maybe 5,000 nodes in them today, according to Mike Olson, chairman and chief strategy officer at Cloudera, ...Full article
A new health assessment that combines big data with patient symptoms, called a “home score,” may keep patients suffering from strep throat from having to take a trip to their doctors’ offices, according to a new paper in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The study, conducted by doctors Andrew Fine and Kenneth Mandl of Boston ...Full article
Soon, the Internet of Things could redefine manufacturing to the point where products can alert operators to upcoming failures before there’s so much as a blip in the assembly line, or perhaps even repair themselves before any damage is done. But with that promise comes challenges. To discuss these issues, McKinsey’s Markus Löffler and Andreas ...Full article
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