Stat Czar Vince Gennaro Harnesses Baseball’s Mountain Of Data
The amount of data being captured, stored, and analyzed during a Major League Baseball (MLB) game has, like players' salaries and the net worth of big league franchises, exploded. ...Full Article
Oracle Cranks Up The Cores To 32 With Sparc M7 Chip
Say what you will about Oracle co-founder and CEO Larry Ellison, but when the software giant bought Sun Microsystems more than four years ago, for $7.4 billion, he said ...Full Article
Applied Micro Plots Out X-Gene ARM Server Future
At the Hot Chips 26 conference being hosted in Silicon Valley this week, upstart ARM server chip maker Applied Micro is presenting details on its roadmap for its X-Gene ...Full Article
Blue Cross Blue Shield Streamlines Networking, Virtualization
You want your healthcare insurance provider to run a lean and mean IT shop, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama is always looking at new technologies to make ...Full Article
Why ARM Servers, And Why Now?
It is a pity that smartphones and tablets did not come along earlier and did not need 64-bit processing and memory addressing sooner than they did. Had these consumer ...Full Article
AMD To Unify X86, ARM Systems With SkyBridge
Chip maker AMD wants the world to know that it is not just dabbling in ARM processors, but rather intends to make ARM chips peers to its X86 products. ...Full Article
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
