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Author Archives: Timothy Prickett Morgan
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IBM Forging Bigger Power8 Systems, Adding FPGA Acceleration
July 28th, 2014 Comments Off on IBM Forging Bigger Power8 Systems, Adding FPGA Acceleration
IBM launched its first servers based on the Power8 processors back in April, and the initial machines were aimed at scale-out clusters as well as at customers needing a modest standalone machine with one or two processor sockets to ...
AWS Feels The Cloud Price War Pinch
July 25th, 2014 Comments Off on AWS Feels The Cloud Price War Pinch
The public cloud business of retailing giant Amazon is nearly doubling in terms of capacity sold to customers in the past quarter, but it looks like the aggressive moves by Microsoft and Google with their respective Azure and Cloud ...
Rackspace Flips The On Switch For OnMetal Instances
July 24th, 2014 Comments Off on Rackspace Flips The On Switch For OnMetal Instances
A month ago, Rackspace Hosting previewed its OnMetal bare metal servers, which are configured quickly and sold with utility-style pricing like its virtual machine instances. Now Rackspace is ready to sell OnMetal capacity and believes it can offer a ...
Toshiba Revs Up SQL Server With Flash Accelerator
July 24th, 2014 Comments Off on Toshiba Revs Up SQL Server With Flash Accelerator
Toshiba and SanDisk are partners in the manufacturing of NAND flash memory but in January, Toshiba acquired OCZ Storage Solutions, a maker of flash-based SAS and SATA drives and PCI flash cards, and with the just-completed acquisition of Fusion-io, ...
IEEE Gets Behind 25G Ethernet Effort
July 23rd, 2014 Comments Off on IEEE Gets Behind 25G Ethernet Effort
After several days of presentations and a unanimous vote of 61 to zero in favor, the members of the IEEE have decided to back an effort to develop 25 Gb/sec Ethernet standards for servers and switching. The formation of ...
Virtual SANs And Networks Taking Off, Says VMware
July 23rd, 2014 Comments Off on Virtual SANs And Networks Taking Off, Says VMware
The transformation of virtualized servers into clouds continues apace at enterprises, and is driving VMware to new heights. The company is now at a $6 billion annual run rate, its initial forays into network and storage virtualization are off ...
Big Switch Brings Hyperscale SDN To Enterprises
July 22nd, 2014 Comments Off on Big Switch Brings Hyperscale SDN To Enterprises
Big Switch Networks, a networking startup that was spun out of the Stanford University labs that created the OpenFlow protocol that underpins a lot of software-defined networking stacks, is rolling out its Big Cloud Fabric Controller. The software is ...
SanDisk Rides Flash Wave, Eager For Fusion-io
July 21st, 2014 Comments Off on SanDisk Rides Flash Wave, Eager For Fusion-io
Over the past several years, key acquisitions and initiatives have transformed SanDisk into an enterprise storage powerhouse with its own flash memory capacity, making it one of the key vertically integrated players in the storage space. The company’s push ...
Shared Memory Clusters: Observations On Capacity And Response Time
July 21st, 2014 (1)
Our marketing friends correctly observe that Shared-Memory Clusters (SMCs) can provide scads of processors and buckets full of memory, all the while with the programming and often performance efficiency benefits of large SMPs. Some may add that SMCs don’t ...
IBM Systems Biz Stabilizes In Q2
July 17th, 2014 Comments Off on IBM Systems Biz Stabilizes In Q2
The systems business at IBM started to stabilize in the second quarter, with X86 servers and mainframes showing improvements and entry Power Systems machines based on the company’s Power8 processors beginning to ship and a fuller product set expected ...