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HP Forges Apollo 6000s For Single Thread, Scale Out Jobs
June 9th, 2014 Comments Off on HP Forges Apollo 6000s For Single Thread, Scale Out Jobs
Back in November last year, EnterpriseTech gave you the inside scoop on the massive 610,000 core server fleet that Intel uses to push Moore's Law along with its electronic design automation software. The chip maker told us that it ...
Mesosphere To Bring Google-Style Cluster Management Mainstream
June 9th, 2014 Comments Off on Mesosphere To Bring Google-Style Cluster Management Mainstream
Enterprises that want to run their clusters the way that Google does will soon have that ability now that Mesos, an open source cluster controller, is getting a commercial backer that will provide enterprise-grade support for the tool. Mesos ...
Fusion-io Doubles Up Flash With Atomic Cards
June 5th, 2014 Comments Off on Fusion-io Doubles Up Flash With Atomic Cards
Flash card maker Fusion-io is riding the Moore's Law curve to double up the capacity and boost the performance of its flagship ioMemory devices with a new line of PCI-Express cards that bear the Atomic brand. The Atomic line ...
Fat Xeons Best Accelerated Systems For Option Pricing
June 4th, 2014 Comments Off on Fat Xeons Best Accelerated Systems For Option Pricing
Sometimes you can throw hardware at a problem and speed up an application, and other times, if you delve into the software stack and make changes, that works. Sometimes, you can do both and come out even further ahead. ...
Cavium ThunderX ARM Chip Rumbles Into Hyperscale
June 3rd, 2014 Comments Off on Cavium ThunderX ARM Chip Rumbles Into Hyperscale
It is not a coincidence that Cavium, a maker of MIPS processors aimed at networking equipment and other embedded uses chose the Computex 2014 conference in Taipei, Taiwan to announce its entry into the ARM server chip space. Many ...
SGI Scales Up HANA On UV NUMA Systems
June 3rd, 2014 (2)
In-memory processing is the hot new thing in the enterprise datacenter and SGI, with decades of experience building shared memory supercomputers, wants to leverage that expertise and catch the in-memory wave. For the past two years, the company has ...
Ethernet Switching Sales Soften
June 2nd, 2014 Comments Off on Ethernet Switching Sales Soften
The Ethernet switch market just took its biggest sequential dive in a long time, thanks to a confluence of economic forces and technology transitions among the major players. The box counters at IDC and Dell'Oro Group both gave their ...
Red Hat Finally Gets A Piece Of The HANA Action
June 2nd, 2014 Comments Off on Red Hat Finally Gets A Piece Of The HANA Action
Thousands of companies have dropped their relational databases and moved to SAP's HANA in-memory database and application platform, and SAP's own Business Suite application stack running atop HANA has broken through 1,000 customers and is one of the fastest-growing ...
HP’s First Xeon Superdome Aimed At SAP HANA
June 2nd, 2014 Comments Off on HP’s First Xeon Superdome Aimed At SAP HANA
The first of several systems that will bring technologies from Hewlett-Packard's Superdome Itanium-based machines to big memory ProLiant servers based on Xeon processors is making its debut this week at SAP's annual customer shindig. Code-named "Project Kraken," the system ...
The Rise Of Server Upstarts
May 30th, 2014 Comments Off on The Rise Of Server Upstarts
The battle between the tier one incumbent server makers and Cisco Systems and the custom server makers continued in the first quarter of the year, and the upstarts are gaining ground on both the shipment and revenue fronts. During ...