Goldman Sachs And Fidelity Bank On Open Compute
What started out as a desire by Facebook to control its own infrastructure five years ago and evolved into the Open Compute Project to open source hardware and datacenter ...Full Article
Financial, Government Sectors Lift Q4 For Juniper
Intel and IBM may be experiencing weaker-than-expected revenues from the enterprise sector, but switch and router maker Juniper Networks had a nice bump from enterprises and beat Wall Street's ...Full Article
AMD Etches “Warsaw” Opterons For Financial Services Friends
AMD is taking a trip down the Opteron 6300 lane one last time with the launch of the "Warsaw" variants of its high-end server processors. The company has been ...Full Article
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 ...Full Article
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 ...Full Article
3M and Allied Control Cool Clusters with Novec Bubble Bath
One of the more interesting demonstrations at the SC13 supercomputing conference last week in Denver was a Xeon E5 server dunked in a tank of Novec fire suppressant fluid. ...Full Article
Red Hat Linux Adds Time Stamp, NVM, and Virtual Hot Plug
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is by far the dominant variant of commercially supported Linux in the enterprise, and based on anecdotal evidence has an even larger share of Linux ...Full Article
Hedge Fund Scraps DIY Lustre Cluster for Terascala
When high performance is needed, some enterprises have no choice but to get out there on the bleeding edge and experiment with new technology and put it into production ...Full Article
Amazon SVP Says Outlook for Enterprise Datacenters Is Cloudy
Amazon Web Services doesn't see the world the same way that most system makers do, Andy Jassy, senior vice president of the cloud computing arm of the retailing giant, ...Full Article
HP to Port NonStop Clusters from Itanium to Xeon
Hewlett-Packard is in the process of porting its NonStop fault tolerant database clusters to Intel's Xeon processors after an eight-year run on the Itanium chip. The company is also ...Full Article
