Datacenter Revamps Cut Energy Costs At CenturyLink
It is probably telling that these days datacenter managers think of the infrastructure under their care more in terms of the juice it burns and not by counting the ...Full Article
How Microsoft Is Using FPGAs To Speed Up Bing Search
Microsoft has dug in for a long and perhaps uphill battle with search engine juggernaut Google, which has three times the reach in search. That means Microsoft has to ...Full Article
Univa Grid Engine Does Windows, Linux Containers
Grid Engine, the popular workload management tool for distributed computing environments, now does Windows. And it is also doing Linux control groups, or cgroups, containers, a technology that was ...Full Article
Server Makers Jockey For “Haswell” Xeon Pole Position
With VMware's VMworld extravaganza winding down, the talk will now shift from virtual servers to physical ones. Everyone expects for Intel to launch its next-generation "Haswell" Xeon E5 processors ...Full Article
A Sneak Peek At VMware EVO:RACK Cluster Appliances
Contrary to some of the rumors going around ahead of the “Project Marvin” EVO cluster appliances launch at VMworld this week, server virtualization juggernaut VMware does not want to ...Full Article
Cray CS-Storm Packs A Serious GPU Punch
GPU accelerators for technical workloads are apparently like potato chips. You can’t have just one, or even two. That is why Cray has forged a new rack-based variant of ...Full Article
VMware Embraces OpenStack Clouds, Docker Containers
Even if you can beat them, sometimes you join them anyway because that is easier and more expedient. And so at the VMworld event in San Francisco today, VMware ...Full Article
VMware Takes On Hyperconvergence Upstarts With EVO:RAIL
For the past several years, VMware has concentrated on turning server virtualization into clouds, and it left one of its flanks unguarded as it coped with the onslaught of ...Full Article
Microsoft’s Own Five Year Move To The Azure Cloud
Just because you have built one of the world's largest clouds does not necessarily mean that you can easily move your own applications to it. Such is the case ...Full Article
HP Systems Get A Bump Thanks To IBM-Lenovo Deal
The expected drawn-out regulatory approval process for IBM's sale of its System x X86 server business to Lenovo Group has put some bounce into the X86 server line from ...Full Article
