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
Startup Vapor I/O Debuts Hyper-Converged Datacenter
Startup Vapor I/O emerged from stealth mode this week with its vision of a hyper-collapsed datacenter that seeks to add intelligence to the equation by including workloads "as a ...Full Article
Dell Targets Network Bottleneck with Switch Interface
In an attempt to move software-defined networking off the drawing board and into the datacenter, Dell's networking unit is rolling out a switch interface as a standard API that ...Full Article
Red Hat Seeds Container Market With Atomic Host
Red Hat, which less then a year ago sought to back up its mantra "The app is king" by unveiling an application container initiative called "Project Atomic," has announced ...Full Article
Intel’s Rack-Scale Plan Gaining Traction
An Intel Corp. technologist speaking at a recent cloud industry event used the opportunity to mention a relatively recent approach to designing datacenter hardware: Intel's rack-scale architecture. The chipmaker ...Full Article
CIA Embraces Cloudera Data Hub
As federal cloud provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) readies its commercial cloud service for the CIA, other vendors are lining up to supply the analytical and other tools needed ...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
Apache Mesos Emerges as Datacenter OS
The rise of Linux container technology as a means of packaging and running web applications is creating an opening for open source software needed to distribute and orchestrate app ...Full Article
Google Outage Traced to Network Glitch
Google has tentatively traced the cause of a roughly two-hour global cloud outage to an internal software issue related to its virtual network traffic routing. The Google Compute Engine ...Full Article
HP Targets Web-Scale Datacenters With New Switches
As cloud datacenters expand to handle web-scale workloads, network vendors like Hewlett-Packard and Cisco System are placing more emphasis on the plumbing required to handle cloud and big data ...Full Article
