Peek Into AMD’s New Atlanta Glass House
Like many enterprises these days, chip maker AMD is looking to consolidate its myriad datacenters and smaller data closets to save operating expenses and to drive up the utilization ...Full Article
Facebook Uses Ikea Modular Approach In Second Swedish Datacenter
Facebook announced it will be using new lean manufacturing concepts, developed as part of the Open Compute Project (OCP), for the construction of a second building at its existing ...Full Article
Flash Array Aimed At VDI Heals Other Hospital Applications
When the folks at Shannon Medical Center decided to begin a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) project to eliminate traditional PCs, their research showed how critical I/O would be to ...Full Article
GPUs Take Monte Carlo Options Pricing Real-Time
In finance, an option or derivative is a contract that gives a firm the right, under certain conditions, to buy or sell an underlying asset or instrument. Financial firms ...Full Article
SGI LiveArc Data Management Advances Cancer Research
Established in 2000, the University of Queensland's Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) in Brisbane, Australia has become leading center for molecular bioscience research. The Queensland Centre for Medical Genomics ...Full Article
Azul Soups Up Java For Financial Trading
The financial services sector adopted Java as a programming language because being able to recode applications and algorithms constantly is a competitive advantage and Java is easier to program ...Full Article
GE Bets On Cloud To Transform Manufacturing
The central theme of the most recent AWS Summit was how different industries are transforming the way they do business with cloud computing. During the keynote address of Werner ...Full Article
Oil Explorer Strikes Black Gold With 20 PB Data Reservoir
The conventional wisdom at large enterprises that deal with truly enormous datasets is that they can't keep it all online. At some point, because of the high cost of ...Full Article
Financial Firms Ask Red Hat To Bring .NET To OpenShift Cloud
Red Hat is going to be bringing application runtime and database servers of Windows platforms to its OpenShift platform cloud, and some big financial services companies are, as it ...Full Article
IBM Puffs Up Platform Symphony, LSF On SoftLayer Cloud
IBM entered 2014 hitting the cloud drum hard. Taking a page from tech titans like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services, Big Blue wants to make it as simple ...Full Article
