Why Amazon Can’t Catch Lucera Financial Cloud
The Lucera cloud that is dedicated to high frequency trading, liquidity matching, and foreign exchange has opened up its doors to customers after building it out for the past ...Full Article
Micron Pushes Memory Roadmap On Several Routes
Memory maker Micron Technology has a bullish roadmap for DRAM, flash, and other technologies that will very likely be in a system, switch, or other device near you in ...Full Article
Dell Takes A Long View On Datacenters
One of the things that Dell committed to do once it went private was to invest more in research and development. Last summer, while the privatization effort was still ...Full Article
SAP HANA Wrings Performance From New Intel Xeons
The in-memory HANA database designed by SAP to radically improve the performance of queries and transaction processing has been a boon to the company. It is the fastest growing ...Full Article
Laser Beams Speed Financial Trading
In today's capital markets, whoever can send and receive real-time market data the fastest has a tremendous advantage. The incentive to execute financial transactions ahead of the competition means ...Full Article
Intel Aims Xeon E7 v2 At Big Memory Workloads
Big companies support thousands of users on their applications, they have big databases behind them, and they therefore need big iron. For those who want to migrate off of ...Full Article
How Priceline.com Rid In-Memory Cache Of Java Jitters
Priceline.com is one of the early Internet startups, and as such it has built a lot of its own technology for gathering up pricing information on airfares, hotel rooms, ...Full Article
Google Tests Homegrown Power8 Servers
Ever since Google joined as one of the first members of the OpenPower Consortium that IBM started last year, everyone has been wondering what Google is up to. The ...Full Article
Big Banks Discover Atlantis Storage Virtualization
Atlantis Computing has carved out a niche for itself in the datacenter by virtualizing desktops and storing them in main memory in server farms for fast access. Some of ...Full Article
First X86 Servers, Now IBM Wants Out Of Chips?
IBM may be looking to part ways with its semiconductor manufacturing business. Citing a person familiar with the matter, the Wall Street Journal reports that IBM is considering selling ...Full Article
