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
Violin Memory Fiddles With Primary Storage
The push to elevate all-flash arrays as the primary storage technology of choice got a boost this week from Violin Memory Inc., which rolled out two new all-flash arrays ...Full Article
Survey Sees Continuing Datacenter Growth
The steady transition of digital businesses to the cloud is driving robust growth in the U.S. datacenter market, with Dallas and the Northern Virginia areas leading the way in ...Full Article
Latest SAP HANA Release Targets Cloud Transition
SAP, the enterprise application software and database leader, unveiled its next generation HANA business suite built on a new in-memory platform with real-time capabilities that target on-premise, cloud and ...Full Article
Cisco Fleshes Out Cloud Strategy
Cisco Systems fleshed out its cloud strategy this week with the launch of a software-licensing framework and a cloud-managed IT approach centered on leveraging its 2012 acquisition of cloud ...Full Article
