Latest Ubuntu Server Packaged With Hyperscale Goodies
It is October, and that is how you know it is time for various Linuxes and the OpenStack cloud controller to get their semi-annual updates of shiny new code. ...Full Article
Why Hadoop Is The New Backbone Of American Express
American Express has to do a lot more than just offer credit cards and a network so merchants can accept them for payment for goods and services. While several ...Full Article
The Myth Of The Green Datacenter
Here's the reality when it comes to datacenter energy consumption: If the cloud industry were a country, according to a recent study, it would be the fifth largest energy ...Full Article
Uncle Sam Struggles With Datacenter, Cloud Efforts
The federal government, in its wisdom, has been trying to consolidate its hodgepodge network of datacenters. The goal is to gain efficiencies in the government operations and, more importantly, ...Full Article
So You Want To Be A Financial Services HPC Programmer?
Financial services companies care about three things: Money, security, and programming on the fastest systems they can afford. You can't be a competitive bank, brokerage, trader, or hedge fund ...Full Article
‘Use-or-Lose’ Budgeting Fuels U.S. IT Failures
It's the end of the federal government's fiscal year, and that means government agencies will go on a use-it-or-lose-it spending spree before midnight on Sept. 30. Much of that ...Full Article
Banks Want Infrastructure That Is As Smart As Applications
Only a few years ago, if you went to the HPC On Wall Street conference in New York, all of the talk was about low latency and high performance. ...Full Article
Navy Looks To Float ‘Tactical Cloud’
As government agencies edge closer to cloud adoption, one of the military services is attempting to take a more proactive approach to leveraging cloud technology to deliver tactical applications ...Full Article
Datacenter Revamps Cut Energy Costs At CenturyLink
It is probably telling that these days datacenter managers think of the infrastructure under their care more in terms of the juice it burns and not by counting the ...Full Article
How Microsoft Is Using FPGAs To Speed Up Bing Search
Microsoft has dug in for a long and perhaps uphill battle with search engine juggernaut Google, which has three times the reach in search. That means Microsoft has to ...Full Article
