Facebook Targets Datacenter with Server SoC
Facebook used this week's Open Compute Project summit to introduce a system-on-a-chip targeting the emerging micro-server market. Code-named "Yosemite," the "server-class" SoC was developed along with Intel Corp. as ...Full Article
HP Targets Service Providers With New Server Line
Hewlett-Packard is seeking to capitalize on the growth of dedicated and shared cloud service providers with a portfolio of server, networking and other support tools intended to help service ...Full Article
AMD, HP Join Forces to Accelerate Server Graphics
Chipmaker AMD said this week its latest server graphic processor has been designed into the latest generation of Hewlett-Packard's Proliant servers. Separately, HP said it Helion cloud platform would ...Full Article
Microsoft Accelerates Datacenter With FPGAs
Microsoft researchers who have for several years been migrating its software cloud services onto programmable hardware are reporting an advance in high-end machine learning the company hopes will boost ...Full Article
Industrial Sector Seen Leading the IoT Shift
With networking companies and device makers jumping on the Internet of Things bandwagon, market drivers like expanding capacity via virtualized datacenters and the implementation of new standards like IPv6 ...Full Article
Cloud-Based GPU Accelerators Crunch Financials
Graphics accelerators have been used over the last several years as a complement to or replacement for standard CPUs. GPU leaders like Nvidia have pushed the trend, arguing that ...Full Article
Intel’s IT Efforts Yield $350M in New Revenue
The world's largest chipmaker says it leveraged components of the IT infrastructure it supplies for others to generate $350 million in revenues during 2014, according to the company's annual ...Full Article
Tech Roadmaps, Leadership Still Needed for IoT
Investments and acquisitions are coalescing around the thing called the Internet of Things, but those betting on the emerging domain as the next big thing have a long way ...Full Article
IBM Treads Water While Scaling Cloud Efforts
IBM continues to tread water as its overall cloud business grows but server hardware along with management and other software continues to decline. IBM reported this week that its ...Full Article
Interoperability Specs for IoT Advance
The IoTivity open source software framework aimed at providing connectivity standards for the emerging Internet of Things has unveiled a "preview release" of a spec designed to ensure interoperability ...Full Article
