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Author Archives: Timothy Prickett Morgan
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Power, ARM Become X86 Peers In Ubuntu Linux
April 17th, 2014 (1)
If number two in any market tries harder, then number three has to really work it to get traction. And that is precisely what Canonical, the corporate entity behind the Ubuntu Server variant of Linux, has been doing for ...
Intel: No Signs Of Datacenter Slowdown
April 15th, 2014 (1)
Whatever issues that chip giant Intel is facing in the client segment of the computing market, it has very little challenging its authority as a provider of compute engines for the datacenters of the. In the first quarter ended ...
Dell Preps Fluid Cache SAN Accelerator For June Launch
April 15th, 2014 Comments Off on Dell Preps Fluid Cache SAN Accelerator For June Launch
The Fluid Cache for SAN acceleration software that Dell has created to boost the performance of its Compellent storage area network arrays is closer to coming to market. Dell previewed the mix of hardware and software at its Dell ...
Enterprises Cooking Up Infrastructure With Chef
April 14th, 2014 (1)
The DevOps culture that started out in hyperscale datacenters is coming to the enterprise, and it will no doubt shake up the way that systems and their applications are deployed and maintained. Chef Software may have started out as ...
How Facebook Compresses Its 300 PB Data Warehouse
April 11th, 2014 (1)
When you have a 300 PB data warehouse running atop Hadoop, you do everything in your power to keep from adding another rack of disk drives to this beast. While social network giant Facebook is not afraid to throw ...
Maersk Oil Tests Reservoir Simulations On AWS
April 10th, 2014 Comments Off on Maersk Oil Tests Reservoir Simulations On AWS
The great thing about cloud computing is that it doesn't cost very much to test out an idea. While we expect developers of Web applications to be monkeying around on the clouds, testing out code and business models, energy ...
Microsoft Targets VMware Customers With Converter Tool
April 10th, 2014 Comments Off on Microsoft Targets VMware Customers With Converter Tool
Microsoft has rolled a new version of its Virtual Machine Converter tool aimed squarely at poaching customers from X86 server virtualization leader VMware. Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter 2.0 is pitched as allowing users to convert virtual machines and virtual ...
Red Hat Focuses RHEL 7 On Virtualization, File Systems
April 10th, 2014 (1)
It isn't called Enterprise Linux for nothing. Eleven years ago, when Red Hat decided to get serious about the corporate market, it killed off its hobbyist Linux and created a slower-moving, more predictable Linux distribution. This was not initially ...
Wall Street Wants Tech To Trade Smarter And Faster
April 9th, 2014 Comments Off on Wall Street Wants Tech To Trade Smarter And Faster
The HPC Linux on Wall Street conference was held in New York City this week, and a lot of the talk at the event was on high frequency trading in the wake of Flash Boys, the new book by ...
Terascala Rides Herd With Lustre Into The Enterprise
April 8th, 2014 Comments Off on Terascala Rides Herd With Lustre Into The Enterprise
It is still early days for the commercialization of the Lustre parallel file system. But the brisk business that Terascala, one of several companies that have put some polish onto Lustre to make it more amenable to enterprises, shows ...