IBM DOME Microserver Could Appeal To Enterprises
An experimental microserver system developed by IBM in conjunction with the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy has the potential to end up in commercial systems running massively parallel workloads. ...Full Article
Facebook Datacenters Boosting Swedish Economy
Facebook says its first European datacenter in northern Sweden is generating jobs as well as conserving energy. The social media giant broke ground on the facility in Luleå, Sweden ...Full Article
Cloud 2.0 Promises To Transform, Disrupt Industries
The growing computational power and pervasiveness of the cloud is generating new applications and services that could transform industries and create new ones, a sunny survey of the future ...Full Article
Google Rethinks The Datacenter
With its vastly profitable search engine and advertising empire, it might seem that Google no longer has to worry about controlling capital expenditures. This is not the case. Google ...Full Article
IBM Opens Fed Datacenters in Dallas, DC Area
IBM is opening two new datacenters that will use software and infrastructure from recently acquired SoftLayer to serve the federal government market. Consistent with its application software push, IBM ...Full Article
HP Forges Apollo 6000s For Single Thread, Scale Out Jobs
Back in November last year, EnterpriseTech gave you the inside scoop on the massive 610,000 core server fleet that Intel uses to push Moore's Law along with its electronic ...Full Article
Banks Eye Spare Datacenter Capacity
As more enterprises are opting to colocate their datacenters, a new player is emerging in the datacenter industry: the financial services sector. The financial services sector is becoming "more ...Full Article
Fat Xeons Best Accelerated Systems For Option Pricing
Sometimes you can throw hardware at a problem and speed up an application, and other times, if you delve into the software stack and make changes, that works. Sometimes, ...Full Article
Facebook Datacenters Fuel Oregon’s Economy
Facebook is taking a familiar tack among technology companies: It wants to move beyond the public perception that it is only a social media company to be seen as ...Full Article
NIH Preps $20 Billion IT, Cloud Contract
The National Institutes of Health is launching a massive IT acquisition program that will include commodity cloud and managed services. NIH released a request for proposals for its $20 ...Full Article