Is Amazon Making Its Own ARM Server Chips?
When computing is all that you do, at a certain scale it makes sense to control all elements of the IT stack, from the operating system kernel all the ...Full Article
ADP, Dow Jones Help Mainstream Node.js
The one thing that all enterprises are always on the hunt for is a hardware or software technology that can significantly speed up an existing process or, in some ...Full Article
IBM, Google Show Off Power8 Systems And OpenPower Efforts
IBM was planning to do the announcement of the first bunch of Power8-based servers at next week's Impact2014 event in Las Vegas, but the Power Systems division at Big ...Full Article
Open Compute In Full Bloom At Facebook North Carolina Datacenter
The Facebook culture is one of hacking bits of software together to make a complex system and constantly tweaking it to improve its performance, efficiency, and scale. This is ...Full Article
Power, ARM Become X86 Peers In Ubuntu Linux
If number two in any market tries harder, then number three has to really work it to get traction. And that is precisely what Canonical, the corporate entity behind ...Full Article
Google Lifts Veil On “Andromeda” Virtual Networking
The biggest public cloud providers have adjacent businesses that actually fund the development of the infrastructure that starts out in their own operations and eventually makes its way into ...Full Article
NUMA’s Revenge: The Resurgence of Shared Memory Systems
Hewlett-Packard may be known as the volume player in the X86 server business, which has been dominated by two-socket servers for the past decade and a half. But the ...Full Article
SUSE Cranks Cloud Controller Up to 2.0 With ‘Grizzly’ Update
SUSE Cloud, the variant of the OpenStack cloud controller put together by commercial Linux distributor SUSE Linux, is now riding the "Grizzly" release of OpenStack. And that means that ...Full Article
Oracle Still Looking Ahead To Rebounding Systems Sales
Oracle got into the systems business with its acquisition of Sun Microsystems more than three years ago, and it has yet to see that systems business stop falling. But ...Full Article