Author Archives: Timothy Prickett Morgan
Timothy Prickett Morgan
SGI To Paint SAP HANA In-Memory Appliance UltraViolet
January 14th, 2014
Systems maker SGI and application and database software maker SAP are teaming up to create a big, bad system for running SAP's HANA in-memory database. The partnership will, says SGI, increase the opportunity for selling its UV shared memory ...
Facebook Whips Systems Into Shape With Customized Chef
January 13th, 2014
Like many modern corporations that exist mainly to supply a service over the Internet, Facebook would like to use open source software wherever practical in its infrastructure and with as little change as possible. But given the immense scale ...
How Ancestry.com Branched Out And Embraced Scale
January 9th, 2014
Ancestry.com is dedicated to discovering, preserving, and sharing family histories, and it knows all about the issues of scaling up IT operations to match a growing number of users. The company curates a progressively larger and richer set of ...
Corente, Responsys Acquisitions Puff Up Oracle Cloud
January 7th, 2014
Oracle bought Xsigo Systems back in June 2013 so it could virtualize network links for server clusters and their storage across local area networks, and now it has snapped up Corente to provide virtual links over wide area networks ...
NSA Uses Wastewater To Cool Massive Datacenter
January 7th, 2014
A massive National Security Agency datacenter under construction at its Fort Meade, Maryland headquarters is going a bit greener than it otherwise would by securing a huge volume of wastewater reclaimed from a nearby sewage treatment plant to cool ...
Intel Maps Out The Year Ahead For Xeon Server Chips
January 7th, 2014
Intel has a busy couple of months ahead refreshing its Xeon server processors, and companies that are getting ready to launch new software projects this year will be in position to take advantage of better hardware. That may sound ...
Gartner Trims Forecasts, But IT Budget Growth Still Good
January 6th, 2014
The first thing anyone wants to know when the new year kicks off is will this one be better than the last one. You can't know this ahead of time, of course. The only way to be sure is ...
New IBM Xeon Server Designs Leverage Flash
January 3rd, 2014
Big Blue will kick off the new season of server announcements at an event held at the New York Stock Exchange on January 16 and in a webcast that will be hosted by the top executives in its System ...
Seagate Buys Xyratex To Build Out Enterprise Array Business
January 3rd, 2014
Seagate Technology is one of the three suppliers of disk drives in the world alongside Western Digital and Toshiba, and now it is getting into the enterprise disk array business by virtue of its deal to acquire Xyratex. The ...
On-Chip Networking May Survive Calxeda Shutdown
January 2nd, 2014
Just after EnterpriseTech went on hiatus for the holiday, ARM server chip pioneer Calxeda closed its doors. This was something of a shock to those who have been championing ARM-based processors as an alternative to X86 server chips from ...
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