Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Wednesday, July 8, 2026
Server virtualization giant VMware has started shipping its latest iteration of its hypervisor and the tools that augment it, and is also now peddling further automate and orchestrate the hypervisors and VMs running on that virtual infrastructure. Both products were announced at the end of August at the annual VMworld extravaganza that VMware hosts, and ... Full article
Founded in 1988, IT security company, Trend Micro has seen technology trends come and go. With the cloud, however, the group says that they are realizing significant growth that is showing up on the ledger sheet. One of the recent successes they’ve seen involves their Deep Security platform. Earlier this year, Trend Micro launched Deep ... Full article
Founded in 1996, Canadian airline, WestJet started with three planes and has since grown to 107 in the air today. Along with the growth in aircraft, the company says it’s made a transition in technology, moving from a position where technology was a necessary evil, to it being essential to their operations. As the company ... Full article
Cloud computing is putting immense pressure on IT, says Aman Neil Dokania, a VP and GM of HP’s cloud division. In the wake of the advent of cloud, Dokania says that new macroeconomic trends are happening around the world that are changing the face of business, and helping those in underdeveloped economies catch up in ... Full article
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Freescale.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="71" border="0" />Freescale Semiconductor, a manufacturer of microcontrollers, microprocessors, and semiconductors, and Oracle, a computer technology company with a specialization in computer hardware and enterprise software, have collaborated in order to assist the evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT) community. Full article
<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/data_magnet.png" alt="" width="95" height="53" border="0" />Beyond being able to afford the necessary software, CFD requires substantial investments in high performance computing (HPC) infrastructure as well as the talent that would meet both hardware and software demands. But according to Steve M. Legensky, founder and general manager of Intelligent Light, there’s more to ... Full article
The word on the street ahead of the Oracle OpenWorld extravaganza, which opened on Sunday evening in San Francisco, was that CEO Larry Ellison would take the stage and talk about the company's biggest and baddest server to date along with in-memory extensions for the Oracle 12c database. Those rumors turned out to be spot ... Full article
If you have been waiting for the Java community to get that popular enterprise programming language accelerated on GPU coprocessors, you are in good company. John Duimovich, a distinguished engineer at IBM and its Java CTO, is right there with you. Oracle is hosting its JavaOne conference in San Francisco this week, outlining the plans ... Full article
It is with great excitement that I introduce you to EnterpriseTech, a new publication that is set to tackle the host of issues large-scale enterprise technology users and decision-makers face during these times of economic and technical change. In my nearly 25 years of covering the IT market, certain shifts or inflection points stand out…I ... Full article
Just a few weeks ahead of the launch of EnterpriseTech, chip maker Intel rolled out its "Ivy Bridge" Xeon E5-2600 v2 processors. These chips are used in the two-socket machinery that dominates the server business these days, and provide a significant performance boost over the prior two generations of processors out of Intel. And, they ... Full article
The Zettabyte File System, or ZFS for short, developed by the former Sun Microsystems and initially delivered in 2005 with the Solaris 10 version of Unix is arguably one of the best innovations to come out of that company, now part of Oracle, aside from the Network File System, the Solaris operating system, and the ... Full article
TIBCO Software, which has evolved from providing messaging platforms to a slew of event-driven middleware to power social media and big data applications, is bracing for more growth as the economy is improving and customers realize they need its wares to build modern, scalable applications. In the company's third quarter of fiscal 2013, which ended ... Full article
In this highly-competitive economy, software providers are looking to protect their assets while enterprises operate under a business imperative of optimizing value. American software company, Flexera Software, aims to address this gap with software products for licensing management, compliance, installation and application packaging solutions. The Flexera Software White Paper, 2012 Key Trends in Software Licensing ... Full article
Dell has given its stamp of approval for a pair of QLogic adapters to be used in its converged S5000 networking switch, which is a key component of Dell’s strategy to enable data center operators to support data (TCP/IP) and storage (FCoE and iSCSI) traffic simultaneously in a single network device. The growth of data ... Full article
In data centers, heat is an enemy that threatens to fry expensive electronics. However, a recent study suggests that many data centers are wasting a large portion of their cooling capability, which in turn means they are wasting tens of thousands of dollars a year. According to a recent study of 45 data centers conducted ... Full article
Violin Memory, a developer of Flash memory-based storage systems, last week unveiled new software that aims to make it easier for organizations to move their legacy data to a tiered storage environment that utilizes a mix of traditional disk and its appliance. Meanwhile, the company is gearing up for an IPO later this month. Violin ... Full article
Asetek reports that it’s taken the first order for its RackCDU liquid cooling system. The order for five RackCDUs from an undisclosed OEM will be used to cool 280 compute nodes in an HPC cluster, the company reports. RackCDU is a hot water, direct-to-chip (D2C), data center liquid cooling system that Asetek claims can cut ... Full article
Google is being hailed as heroes in green energy circles, as the company revealed this week that they have purchased the entire output of the 240 megawatt Happy Hereford wind farm outside of Amarillo, Texas. The recent move makes Google’s fifth such long-term agreement, bringing the company to more than 570 megawatts of wind energy ... Full article
RMS, a large catastrophe risk modeling firm, announced the company is deploying its RMS Cloud via a partnership with Verne Global and Datapipe. Located in Iceland, Verne Global's eco-friendly datacenter will host RMS(one), which according to the firm is the insurance industry's first real-time exposure and risk management environment. The solution is primed to empower ... Full article
Founded as a storage company in Massachusetts in 1979, EMC has developed into a major IT company with two principle parts, its information infrastructure business and its VMware virtual infrastructure operation, represented by its majority stake in VMware. Of the company's 48,500 employees, 9,000 are employed by VMware. A recent white paper explores EMC's evolution ... Full article