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Hyper-Converged IT Making Inroads in Datacenters
Infrastructure refresh projects centering on datacenter hyper-convergence are planned over the next 12 months by nearly half of respondents to an industry survey, underscoring the conclusion that virtualized infrastructure ...Full Article
Spurred by Global Ambitions, Inspur in Joint HPC Deal with DDN
Inspur, the fast-growth cloud computing and server vendor from China, and DDN, a leader in high-end storage, have announced a joint sales and marketing agreement to produce solutions based ...Full Article
OpenIO Takes on x86-based Object Storage TCO
OpenIO has announced a new object storage appliance that combines its open source storage software with an ARM-based Marvell chassis that OpenIO said is priced at a fraction of ...Full Article
Treat Your Databases as Cattle, not Pets
Today, databases have to be treated like pets. Each is special and receives individualized care and attention. At scale, and with the need for greater agility, the issue of ...Full Article
Qualcomm Targets Intel Data Center Dominance with 10nm ARM-based Server Processor
Claiming no less than a reshaping of the future of Intel-dominated datacenter computing, Qualcomm Technologies, the market leader in smartphone chips, announced the forthcoming availability of what it says ...Full Article
HPE Rolls Out ‘Micro’ Datacenter
The evolution of Hewlett Packard Enterprise as an infrastructure software vendor advanced this week with the release of a "micro datacenter" offering that targets exponential data growth and the ...Full Article
Sweden Cuts Tax on Datacenter Power
As the data continues to pile up, so too does the stiffening competition to store and manage it. The latest gambit comes from energy-efficient Sweden, where the Scandinavian nation's ...Full Article
IBM Eyes Enterprise Workloads With PowerAI
Last year at SC15, IBM offered its vision of an accelerator-assisted computing paradigm enabled by the OpenPOWER ecosystem of diverse partners and focused on cognitive computing as the key ...Full Article
Hyper-scalers Speeding Apps Via FPGAs
Nimbix is the latest HPC cloud vendor to collaborate with FPGA pioneer Xilinx Inc. to accelerate cloud datacenter workflows that increasingly include computing-intensive data analytics, machine learning and video ...Full Article
VMs Still Have Legs, Survey Finds
Faster server provisioning and consolidation along with long-term cost savings remain the key benefits of virtualization, according to a new vendor survey, with virtual machines keeping pace with trendy ...Full Article
