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
Facebook Adds Retro Relational to Massive Hadoop Analytics
If there is one lesson that all extreme scale system designs teach us over and over again, it is that you have to tailor the system for the specific ...Full Article
Are Google’s Next Datacenters Bound for the High Seas?
The next time you hear someone say that Google is managing a fleet of servers, it might be literal as well as figurative. The folks at the Googleplex headquarters ...Full Article
Xeon Refresh and Engineering Drive Sales at Supermicro
Supermicro makes a living peddling motherboards and system components as well as its own whitebox systems to those who are looking for density and low cost. Like its peers, ...Full Article
Spectra Logic Rides the Data Explosion Wave with Tape
If you listen to the quarterly conference calls of the big IT suppliers who play in the tape market, as we at EnterpriseTech do, invariably you hear them bemoan ...Full Article
Facebook Tech Director Reveals Open Networking Plan
Facebook is a classic example of an exponentially growing business with extreme scale IT needs that cannot do things in the data center the way traditional large enterprises do. ...Full Article
Supply Chain Pushes Fox Into the Cloud
The transition to a converged cloud has led to a fundamental rethinking of business processes at 20th Century Fox, explained CIO John Herbert recently. The move, he says, has ...Full Article
