SGI UV for SAP HANA Doubles Sockets, In-Memory Computing Capacity
Within about six months, SGI doubled the number of sockets on its SGI UV for SAP HANA and is awaiting SAP's certification on the next iteration of its appliance. ...Full Article
Apple’s Siri Leverages Apache Mesos
Question: What makes the latest version of Siri, the personal assistant and "knowledge navigator" in the Apple iOS, tick? Answer: The Apache Mesos open-source cluster manager, according to a ...Full Article
Univa’s Workload Optimization Solution Simplifies Enterprises’ Distributed Datacenters
To help enterprises manage and optimize their increasingly distributed applications, datacenters, legacy applications, and frameworks, Univa today took the wraps off Universal Resource Broker, a workload optimization solution for ...Full Article
Datacenter, Cloud Security Platform Gets a Boost
Some big numbers are flying around as technology investors sink more venture capital into startups promising to beef up security in datacenters and cloud infrastructure. The latest example comes ...Full Article
SGI Supercomputer Upgrade to Boost Total Exploration in 2016
Energy giant Total will use its recently announced supercomputer upgrade to improve the productivity and efficiency of its seismic processing and reservoir simulation processes when the system goes live next ...Full Article
Quanta Cloud Raises Server Ante with GPUs
Quanta Cloud Technology, the server and storage unit of the Taiwanese manufacturer Quanta Computer, has over the last year been targeting the high end of the enterprise datacenter market. ...Full Article
Startup Vapor I/O Debuts Hyper-Converged Datacenter
Startup Vapor I/O emerged from stealth mode this week with its vision of a hyper-collapsed datacenter that seeks to add intelligence to the equation by including workloads "as a ...Full Article
HP Maintains Server Lead as Sales Growth Slows
Hyper-scale datacenter deployments along with cloud service provider installations drove global server shipments during the fourth quarter of 2014, according to a market researcher. Gartner Inc. reported Tuesday (March ...Full Article
Intel’s Rack-Scale Plan Gaining Traction
An Intel Corp. technologist speaking at a recent cloud industry event used the opportunity to mention a relatively recent approach to designing datacenter hardware: Intel's rack-scale architecture. The chipmaker ...Full Article
More Funding for Hyper-Converged Upstart Pivot3
Hyper-converged infrastructure specialist Pivot3 announced a $45 million funding round on Tuesday (Feb. 24). It said proceeds from the equity and bank-funding round will be used to expand its ...Full Article
