EMC, VMware Team On Project Mystic Converged System?
VMware has been touting the benefits of the software-defined datacenter for years, and has made some major investments in virtual networking and virtual storage to make this possible. Now, ...Full Article
Inside SAP’s Own HANA Accelerated Systems
How much iron does it take to run enterprise application giant SAP? Less than you might think, and even less now that the company has moved all of its ...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 Reveals NUMAlink 7, Plans For Data-Intensive Computing
SGI started out as a workstation maker, expanded into supercomputing, and merged with an innovator in hyperscale datacenter systems. The company knows the kinds of systems that governments, research ...Full Article
Hyperscale Datacenters To Dominate Server Shipments
The cloud, in its many forms, is changing the nature of servers and storage and is therefore transforming the overall market for systems and storage. Nothing makes this more ...Full Article
Shared Memory Clusters Accelerate Databases
In-memory databases are going mainstream to accelerate analytics, and if the success of SAP's HANA in-memory database is any guide, then it looks like companies will be looking at ...Full Article
Quanta Pushes Foot Inside Enterprise Datacenter Doors
Hyperscale cloud operators like Facebook and Rackspace Hosting came to Taiwanese manufacturer Quanta Computer several years ago when they wanted to design and build custom machines tuned up for ...Full Article
Stacking Up Xeon E7 v2 Chips Against The Competition
Since Intel entered the server market formally in 1993, it has used its prowess in manufacturing and its ever-expanding sophistication in chip design to knock countless competitive chips out ...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
The Math On Big NUMA Versus Clusters
Even if you are not thinking of buying a big Sparc/Solaris server, some new math by Oracle might get you to thinking about shared memory machines as opposed to ...Full Article
