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Intel’s New Xeon E7 Family Targets Big Data
Intel wants to address enterprises' mission-critical, analytics, and big data processing needs with the advent of its new Xeon E7-4800 v3 and E7-8800 v3 x86 chips. The Santa Clara, ...Full Article
New TI SoC Halves System Costs
Texas Instruments is challenging makers of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and targeting high-performance vertical markets with today's release of its Keystone-based 66AK2L06 System-on-Chip (SoC). The solution, which uses the JESD204B interface ...Full Article
IT Help Wanted, Especially Security Experts
They say security breaches are like heart attacks: You don't start exercising until you've had one. It appears that a lengthening series of high-profile security breaches using increasingly sophisticated ...Full Article
GigaSpaces Upgrades In-Memory Platform, Eyes Retail
In-memory computing proponents are citing use examples like online retail shopping to make their case for what they claim is an emerging infrastructure based on in-memory data grids. Among ...Full Article
New Windows Vulnerability at Large, Security Vendor Says
Security developer Cylance recently uncovered a new technique for stealing log-in credentials from any Windows PC, tablet, or server – including those running previews of the not-yet-released Windows 10. ...Full Article
Currency Shifts Erode IT Spending Forecast
The rapid and continuing rise of the U.S. dollar against most currencies will put a dent in global IT spending during 2015, a new forecast concludes. Market researcher Gartner ...Full Article
Flash Memory Goes 3D
As traditional NAND flash storage technology approaches the end of the line, chipmakers Intel Corp. and Micron Technology jointly began investigating new approaches to cell design that could be ...Full Article
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
HP Targets Service Providers With New Server Line
Hewlett-Packard is seeking to capitalize on the growth of dedicated and shared cloud service providers with a portfolio of server, networking and other support tools intended to help service ...Full Article
AMD, HP Join Forces to Accelerate Server Graphics
Chipmaker AMD said this week its latest server graphic processor has been designed into the latest generation of Hewlett-Packard's Proliant servers. Separately, HP said it Helion cloud platform would ...Full Article
