Firing Up 75K VMs On OpenStack In An Afternoon
Running distributed applications on cloud computing capacity means, in theory, that IT shops never have to do capacity planning again. For large enough aggregations of lines of business inside ...Full Article
Enterprises Embrace Converged Systems
The box counters at IDC are still working on a method to dice and slice how the market for converged systems is shaping up. Last year, as it was ...Full Article
ARM Server Chips To Scale To 32 Cores And Beyond
The first wave of 64-bit ARM server processors are just coming out of the fabs from AMD and Applied Micro, and ARM Holdings, the company that licenses the ARM ...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
HP Forms Hyperscale Server Venture With Foxconn
The hyperscale server market is growing fast and everybody from incumbent server makers to original design manufacturers who used to work for them all want a piece of the ...Full Article
Inside Google, Tyan Power8 Server Boards
EnterpriseTech told you a few months ago that Google was working on its own server motherboards based on IBM’s Power8 processor and at the Impact2014 conference in Las Vegas ...Full Article
Big Blue Chases Clouds, Big Data With Power8 Systems
IT "infrastructure matters in the new era of computing," IBM managers argued in the formal launching of its Power Systems servers based on its Power8 processor, taking aim at ...Full Article
HP Tweaks NonStop, HP-UX Systems
Windows and Linux servers may dominate sales at Hewlett-Packard, as they do for the systems market at large, but the company still has a sizeable business peddling NonStop and ...Full Article