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Dell Taps Nutanix For Converged Server-SAN Appliances
June 25th, 2014 (1)
If Dell had not spent so much money taking itself private last year, it might be spending billions of dollars acquiring converged system upstart Nutanix. But instead – and very likely because Nutanix is not for sale and rather ...
Violin Fattens Up Flash Arrays, Adds Data Services
June 24th, 2014 Comments Off on Violin Fattens Up Flash Arrays, Adds Data Services
All-flash array maker Violin Memory is striking up the data orchestra with its new Concerto 7000 series, adding a suite of data management software to its arrays and extending the capacity of the units by a factor of four. ...
Applied Micro X-Gene ARM Waves The 64-Bit Banner
June 24th, 2014 Comments Off on Applied Micro X-Gene ARM Waves The 64-Bit Banner
A few years back, Intel made its foray into the networking arena with its Xeon and Atom processors, and several makers of specialized chips for networking are fighting back by taking their expertise and creating server variants of the ...
Xeon Phi To Get 3X Speed Bump, Omni Scale Fabric
June 23rd, 2014 Comments Off on Xeon Phi To Get 3X Speed Bump, Omni Scale Fabric
Intel is showing off a few more of the feeds and speeds of its forthcoming "Knights Landing" Xeon Phi chips and talking a bit about the future network fabric that will be paired with these compute engines as well ...
InkaBinka Moves From Cloud To Moonshot For Launch
June 23rd, 2014 (1)
The premise behind a new startup called InkaBinka, which launched this month and which is only a year old, is that none of us have the time to keep up with what is going on in the world. Or ...
Mellanox Cranks InfiniBand Bandwidth Up To 100
June 23rd, 2014 Comments Off on Mellanox Cranks InfiniBand Bandwidth Up To 100
InfiniBand network equipment supplier Mellanox Technologies had been hinting that it would be able to get its first 100 Gb/sec products out the door perhaps in late 2014 or in early 2015, and it turns out that this will ...
CFEngine Pushes Scalability, Adds Enterprise Features
June 20th, 2014 Comments Off on CFEngine Pushes Scalability, Adds Enterprise Features
The CFEngine system management tool has been around for more than two decades, and after bringing in a new management lineup last year, the company bearing the same name that controls it is ramping up its efforts to push ...
Cloud, Engineered Systems Offset Oracle Software Slump
June 20th, 2014 Comments Off on Cloud, Engineered Systems Offset Oracle Software Slump
The cloud business at Oracle is now almost as large as the engineered systems business that underpins it, and both are growing considerably faster than the rest of the company. In the company's fourth quarter of its fiscal 2014 ...
Rackspace OnMetal Gives Bare Metal Oomph, Cloud Flexibility
June 19th, 2014 Comments Off on Rackspace OnMetal Gives Bare Metal Oomph, Cloud Flexibility
When is a cloud not a cloud? When it is really dedicated hosting with a new name slapped on it. Rackspace Hosting, which made enough of a mark in hosting to go public and which was wise enough to ...
Intel Mates FPGA With Future Xeon Server Chip
June 18th, 2014 (3)
Intel is taking field programmable gate arrays seriously as a means of accelerating applications and has crafted a hybrid chip that marries an FPGA to a Xeon E5 processor and puts them in the same processor socket. The hybrid ...