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Supermicro Revs Up Low Latency HFT Servers
December 5th, 2013 Comments Off on Supermicro Revs Up Low Latency HFT Servers
If you have the need for speed, Supermicro has a server for you. Supermicro is known to many as a motherboard supplier, but the company has a large and growing systems business aimed at a variety of markets. Supermicro ...
Dell Grabs Puppet to Master Competitor Systems
December 4th, 2013 Comments Off on Dell Grabs Puppet to Master Competitor Systems
Ahead of next week's Dell World event in its hometown of Austin, Texas, the recently privatized IT giant is revving a new release of its Active System Manager. The big news is that Dell is going to be merging ...
Google Compute Engine Gears Up to Take On AWS
December 3rd, 2013 Comments Off on Google Compute Engine Gears Up to Take On AWS
Search engine juggernaut Google is taking the beta label off its Compute Engine cloud infrastructure services, taking on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Windows Azure, IBM SoftLayer, and other public clouds. Economy of scale is what makes it possible for ...
ScaleXtreme Reins in Clouds with Orchestration
December 2nd, 2013 Comments Off on ScaleXtreme Reins in Clouds with Orchestration
Cloud management software provider ScaleXtreme is puffing up its third major release of its cloud management tools, adding a workflow and orchestration engine that can reach up into the applications running on various public and private clouds and make ...
High Frequency Trader Spins Out Custom Network Hardware
December 2nd, 2013 Comments Off on High Frequency Trader Spins Out Custom Network Hardware
Australian high frequency trading firm Zomojo knows a thing or two about low latency trading and has been building its own hardware and trading platform software for the past five years. Now, it is taking some of its hardware ...
Amazon Web Services Outgrows And Dwarfs Cloud Rivals
November 30th, 2013 Comments Off on Amazon Web Services Outgrows And Dwarfs Cloud Rivals
Amazon Web Services had first-mover advantage when it launched its EC2 compute cloud back in March 2006, and that was by no means a guarantee of success. But incumbent hosting service providers and system resellers did not see the ...
Spectra Logic Aims TS1140 Drive at Enterprise Libraries
November 29th, 2013 Comments Off on Spectra Logic Aims TS1140 Drive at Enterprise Libraries
Tape may seem retro to a lot of people, but it is still the cheapest way to store huge amounts of data for the least amount of money. The Linear Tape Open (LTO) tape drive format, which has been ...
HP Systems Sales Rebound, But Profits Under Pressure
November 26th, 2013 (1)
The good news is that Hewlett-Packard is growing its X86 server business faster than the market at large again. The bad news is that a very large hyperscale server deal and an unfavorable mix in sales of ProLiant machines ...
HP Offers Exclusive Peek Inside Impending Moonshot Servers
November 26th, 2013 (1)
Hewlett-Packard has staked a lot on its hyperscale Moonshot platform and has said from the beginning that it wanted to have a mix of processors and coprocessors so these machines could be aimed at a wide variety of workloads. ...
Bellwether Intel Says Enterprise IT Spending on the Upswing
November 26th, 2013 Comments Off on Bellwether Intel Says Enterprise IT Spending on the Upswing
Sales of processors and other components into the enterprise market have not panned out as expected for Intel in the past three years, the company admitted at its industry analyst meeting late last week, However, other markets that buy ...