Verizon Gains Federal Cloud Approval
Verizon said this week its Enterprise Solutions unit has joined a growing list of vendors gaining the authority to provide cloud services to federal agencies. Verizon joins Amazon Web ...Full Article
Wyoming Waste Powers Microsoft Datacenter
As efforts to make datacenters more energy efficient hit a wall, Microsoft is taking a new approach: using methane biogas from an adjacent wastewater treatment facility along with fuel ...Full Article
Let’s Go (To the Cloud) Mets!
Big-time professional sports are increasingly turning to networking and analytics technologies as they seek to enhance the "fan experience." New, publicly financed sports palaces now come with networking features ...Full Article
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
