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Oracle Boosts Exadata Database Clusters With Custom Xeon E7s
July 17th, 2014 Comments Off on Oracle Boosts Exadata Database Clusters With Custom Xeon E7s
For some workloads, a big eight-socket server node with a hefty memory footprint is going to support a database workload better than four two-socket nodes in a database cluster, which is why Oracle offers two different flavors of its ...
Ceph Clustered Storage Dons A Red Hat
July 16th, 2014 Comments Off on Ceph Clustered Storage Dons A Red Hat
Red Hat is the world's largest supplier of support services for open source software, and it has delivered its first update to the Ceph storage software it acquired back in April to give it a better footing in the ...
Convey-Dell FPGA Appliance Accelerates Hyperscale Image Resizing
July 16th, 2014 Comments Off on Convey-Dell FPGA Appliance Accelerates Hyperscale Image Resizing
Convey Computer, a maker of hybrid supercomputers based on a mix of X86 processors and field programmable gate array (FPGA) chips, is teaming up with Dell's Data Center Solutions custom hyperscale server division to bring to market systems that ...
Early Haswell Xeon Buyers Push Intel Datacenter Biz
July 15th, 2014 Comments Off on Early Haswell Xeon Buyers Push Intel Datacenter Biz
For the past several Xeon E5 processor launch cycles, customers in the cloud and supercomputing spaces get their hands on the chips and put them into production systems well ahead of the actual product launch date. This seems to ...
Arista Cranks Leaf Switches To 100G For Big Data, Storage
July 15th, 2014 (1)
The emergence of big data, storage, and streaming media applications that have bursty behavior on the network and the prevalence of 10 Gb/sec network adapters on servers is choking the uplinks on top of rack switches. Switch makers are ...
Open Sourced BIOS Helps Power8 Compete With X86
July 15th, 2014 (1)
IBM is deadly serious about fostering an open ecosystem around the Power8 processor and its follow-ons, and has taken the next step in advancing its OpenPower cause by open sourcing the microcode that manages the boot sequence on the ...
BAE Systems Arms Clusters With GPU And Xeon Phi Accelerators
July 14th, 2014 Comments Off on BAE Systems Arms Clusters With GPU And Xeon Phi Accelerators
With over 88,000 employees and £18.2 billion in revenues, BAE Systems is one of the largest defense, aerospace, and security contractors in the world and a major supplier of technology to the governments of the United Kingdom, United States, ...
AWS Talks Up Enterprise Wins, Adds Zocalo Collaboration
July 10th, 2014 Comments Off on AWS Talks Up Enterprise Wins, Adds Zocalo Collaboration
Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing arm of the world's largest online retailer, got the first-mover advantage in cloud computing and has been aggressively innovating for more than eight years to keep its sizeable lead over larger and in ...
Google Gets Big Backers For Kubernetes Docker Manager
July 10th, 2014 Comments Off on Google Gets Big Backers For Kubernetes Docker Manager
The Kubernetes software container management system that search engine giant Google just open sourced a month ago has got some big – and perhaps surprising – backers. And that makes it more likely that Kubernetes could become a de ...
IBM Commits $3 Billion To Future Chip, Systems Research
July 9th, 2014 Comments Off on IBM Commits $3 Billion To Future Chip, Systems Research
If the rumors are right, and they usually are on these sorts of things, then IBM is looking to get out of the chip manufacturing business and has been shopping around its two foundries in Vermont and New York. ...