400Gb Open Ethernet Switch from Mellanox
Mellanox (NASDAQ: MLNX) today announced Spectrum-2, billed by the interconnect company as the most scalable 200 and 400GB/second Open Ethernet switch, offering 10X scalability while reducing datacenter OPEX via ...Full Article
Intersect360 Survey Shows Continued InfiniBand Dominance
There were few surprises in Intersect360 Research’s just released report on interconnect use in advanced scale computing. InfiniBand and Ethernet remain the dominant protocols across all segments (system, storage, ...Full Article
Kubernetes Gets Storage, Security Upgrades
As more distributed applications are delivered via containers, managing them at scale has become a key requirement. That has spurred extensions of container orchestration tools such as Docker Swarm ...Full Article
Nvidia, Baidu Expand AI Partnership
Today at its developer conference in Beijing, Baidu announced a broadening of its AI partnership with Nvidia, including plans to bring Nvidia’s recently announced 120 TFLOPS Volta GPUs to ...Full Article
Sweden Scales Datacenter Heat Recycling
A Swedish data park seeking to attract major datacenter operators is upgrading a five-year-old effort to recover and distribute heat generated by datacenters to a local energy company. Stockholm ...Full Article
The State of IoT Security: Not Good
IOT security today is very much in its infancy. Yet IOT is growing at an explosive rate. Research firm Statista, one of the leading statistics companies on the internet, ...Full Article
AWS Stresses ‘Security by Design,’ DevOps Freedom
Citing its "mind-blowing" impact on the IT industry, Amazon's CTO argued that the cloud is emerging as the "new normal" for digital enterprises while providing developers with resources designed ...Full Article
Pentagon Awards Huge Cloud Contract
Few federal agencies have more stringent security requirements for cloud deployment than the Defense Department, which has been fighting an uphill battle to move more sensitive workloads to the ...Full Article
AMD Charges Back into the Datacenter and HPC Workflows with EPYC Processor
AMD is charging back into the enterprise datacenter and select HPC workflows with its new EPYC 7000 processor line, code-named Naples, announced today at a “global” launch event in ...Full Article
MemSQL Touts 1st Real Time Data Warehouse for Cloud
Data lake vs. data warehouse: what’s the difference? Are they different? More to the point, what contrasting analytics workloads do they support? While both store massive amounts of data ...Full Article
