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AWS Embraces FPGAs, ‘Elastic’ GPUs
A new instance type rolled out this week by Amazon Web Services is based on customizable field programmable gate arrays that promise to strike a balance between performance and ...Full Article
Exabytes Hit the Road with AWS Snowmobile
Big data, meet your big rig. Amazon Web Services took containerization technology to new levels yesterday when it unveiled plans to use 45-foot trailers equipped with scads of disk ...Full Article
Solving the IoT’s Greatest Hurdle – Interoperability
The McKinsey Global Institute cited interoperability as the difference between the Internet of Things (IoT) being a $7T market and a $11.1T market by 2025. The more devices we ...Full Article
OpenPOWER Shows Strength at First European Summit
In a show of strength in Europe before heading to SC16 next month, IBM and the OpenPOWER Foundation today unveiled several new European initiatives and European-developed solutions at the ...Full Article
IDC: Searching for Dark Energy in the HPC Universe
Editor’s Note: In this guest commentary, Bob Sorensen, research vice president in IDC's High Performance Computing group, argues that high performance computing is undergoing basic changes in how we should ...Full Article
OpenStack Making Pricing Gains, Index Finds
The OpenStack cloud platform has had plenty of teething problems, none the least of which are its complexity in deployments and a steep learning curve before users reap a ...Full Article
The Hybrid Network: Monitoring and Management Beyond Your Own Four Walls
More organizations are migrating applications to the cloud, along with more basic infrastructure, such as storage and application development platforms. A recent survey of IT professionals found that 92 ...Full Article
VMs Still Have Legs, Survey Finds
Faster server provisioning and consolidation along with long-term cost savings remain the key benefits of virtualization, according to a new vendor survey, with virtual machines keeping pace with trendy ...Full Article
AWS, VMware Scale the Hybrid Cloud
The hybrid cloud market just got far more competitive with an alliance between the leading public cloud vendor and an entrenched datacenter supplier. Along with preserving existing datacenter investments, ...Full Article
Tech Mergers Tick Up in Q3
Technology merger and acquisition activity picked up during the third quarter, led by SoftBank Group's blockbuster deal in July to acquire U.K. processor intellectual property vendor ARM Ltd. immediately ...Full Article