Genome Researchers Battling Data Storage Bottlenecks
Genome sequencing designed to determine the complete DNA sequence of an organism is generating petabytes of raw and processed data that is proving extremely difficult to manage and store. ...Full Article
How Facebook Compresses Its 300 PB Data Warehouse
When you have a 300 PB data warehouse running atop Hadoop, you do everything in your power to keep from adding another rack of disk drives to this beast. ...Full Article
Maersk Oil Tests Reservoir Simulations On AWS
The great thing about cloud computing is that it doesn't cost very much to test out an idea. While we expect developers of Web applications to be monkeying around ...Full Article
Red Hat Focuses RHEL 7 On Virtualization, File Systems
It isn't called Enterprise Linux for nothing. Eleven years ago, when Red Hat decided to get serious about the corporate market, it killed off its hobbyist Linux and created ...Full Article
Wall Street Wants Tech To Trade Smarter And Faster
The HPC Linux on Wall Street conference was held in New York City this week, and a lot of the talk at the event was on high frequency trading ...Full Article
IBM Chip Suitors Rumored To Narrow To GlobalFoundries
GlobalFoundries has reportedly emerged as the leading candidate to acquire IBM's remaining semiconductor manufacturing facilities. The Wall Street Journal reported on April 3 that Intel and foundry giant Taiwan ...Full Article
The Hyperscale Lessons Of Healthcare.gov
The last six months have been a hair-graying experience for everybody involved in the Healthcare.gov rollout. While it ultimately managed to meet its goals and enroll 7.1 million people, ...Full Article
Greenpeace Sees Progress Toward ‘Green’ Datacenters
We can't do much without power, and cloud computing services are using a growing share of the world's electrical power. That trend is expected to accelerate as emerging markets ...Full Article
Google Lifts Veil On “Andromeda” Virtual Networking
The biggest public cloud providers have adjacent businesses that actually fund the development of the infrastructure that starts out in their own operations and eventually makes its way into ...Full Article
Amazon Gains DoD Approval For Cloud Services
Uncle Sam has approved broader use of cloud services provided by Amazon Web Services. The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) said this week it would allow the military services ...Full Article
