Dell Takes A Long View On Datacenters
One of the things that Dell committed to do once it went private was to invest more in research and development. Last summer, while the privatization effort was still ...Full Article
Google Tests Homegrown Power8 Servers
Ever since Google joined as one of the first members of the OpenPower Consortium that IBM started last year, everyone has been wondering what Google is up to. The ...Full Article
Netflix Speeds Machine Learning With Amazon GPUs
Trying to figure out what 44 million of us in 41 different countries might want to watch next is not just a matter of guessing for video streaming service ...Full Article
Startup Slashes Latencies With Server-Switch Hybrid
For some workloads, the most important thing is cutting out as much latency as possible from the hardware and software stack. For many of those same latency-sensitive customers, simplifying ...Full Article
Canonical To Kick Ubuntu Server Into Hyperscale
Canonical, the maker of the Ubuntu distribution of Linux, does not have the same kind of footprint in enterprise datacenters that rivals Red Hat and SUSE Linux do. But ...Full Article
Scaling Renewable Energy In The Datacenter
Why does being green in the datacenter matter? That is the question that the people responsible for the electric bills at the massive datacenters run by Microsoft, Facebook, and ...Full Article
Dell Bares Switch Metal To Other Network Operating Systems
When you look at a switch, you are looking at the vestiges of a proprietary past that many of the largest companies in the world want to do away ...Full Article
How Ancestry.com Branched Out And Embraced Scale
Ancestry.com is dedicated to discovering, preserving, and sharing family histories, and it knows all about the issues of scaling up IT operations to match a growing number of users. ...Full Article
LinkedIn Copes with Server Explosion with Revved Up CFEngine
The dream of every Internet startup is for an idea to take off and go mainstream. This is precisely the nightmare of every system administrator that works at these ...Full Article
Google Spends $600 Million on Finnish Datacenter Expansion
The climate in Finland may not be ideal for many people, but servers, switches, and storage sure like the chilly weather. That is why Google bought an abandoned paper ...Full Article
