Atos Buys Bull To Commercialize HPC, Build Out Cloud
Atos, the European IT services giant based in France that is the amalgam of a dozen companies that have been brought together over the past several decades, is getting ...Full Article
HP Adds To Layoffs As Sales Dip
The turnaround of Hewlett-Packard under CEO Meg Whitman is not quite accomplished yet, with revenues flat and net income up decently in the second quarter of its fiscal 2014 ...Full Article
Intel Software To Guarantee Virtual Machine Performance
Virtual machines do not always behave themselves and Intel wants to change that through a combination of circuitry in its processors and software that it develops in-house and plugs ...Full Article
IBM X86 Server Deal With Lenovo Is ‘On Track’
IBM and Lenovo Group have said very little about the progress of the $2.3 billion deal that will see the Chinese company take over IBM's X86 server business. But ...Full Article
IBM Forges Flex Converged Systems With Intel Xeon E7s
Just because IBM is in the middle of trying to sell off its System x X86 server business to Lenovo Group does not mean that the system engineering stops. ...Full Article
Firing Up 75K VMs On OpenStack In An Afternoon
Running distributed applications on cloud computing capacity means, in theory, that IT shops never have to do capacity planning again. For large enough aggregations of lines of business inside ...Full Article
Enterprises Embrace Converged Systems
The box counters at IDC are still working on a method to dice and slice how the market for converged systems is shaping up. Last year, as it was ...Full Article
ARM Server Chips To Scale To 32 Cores And Beyond
The first wave of 64-bit ARM server processors are just coming out of the fabs from AMD and Applied Micro, and ARM Holdings, the company that licenses the ARM ...Full Article
Why ARM Servers, And Why Now?
It is a pity that smartphones and tablets did not come along earlier and did not need 64-bit processing and memory addressing sooner than they did. Had these consumer ...Full Article
AMD To Unify X86, ARM Systems With SkyBridge
Chip maker AMD wants the world to know that it is not just dabbling in ARM processors, but rather intends to make ARM chips peers to its X86 products. ...Full Article
