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Cisco Refreshes Nexus Switches, Integrates Whiptail Flash With UCS
If you are in the hunt for new switches in your datacenter, Cisco Systems has just revamped portions of its Nexus line of top-of-rack and end-of-row devices. Cisco has ...Full Article
Amazon Cranks Up I/O On New EC2 Cloud Slices
Cloud computing juggernaut Amazon Web Services has forged a new class of server instances for its EC2 compute cloud that feature the kind of high I/O that it says ...Full Article
IBM Doubles Up All-Flash Arrays, Texas Style
The first fruits of IBM's labors after the acquisition of Texas Memory Systems back in August have come to market, and the new FlashSystem 840 is the first all-flash ...Full Article
On-Chip Networking May Survive Calxeda Shutdown
Just after EnterpriseTech went on hiatus for the holiday, ARM server chip pioneer Calxeda closed its doors. This was something of a shock to those who have been championing ...Full Article
High Frequency Trader Spins Out Custom Network Hardware
Australian high frequency trading firm Zomojo knows a thing or two about low latency trading and has been building its own hardware and trading platform software for the past ...Full Article
Bellwether Intel Says Enterprise IT Spending on the Upswing
Sales of processors and other components into the enterprise market have not panned out as expected for Intel in the past three years, the company admitted at its industry ...Full Article
Intel to Pull Networking Into Xeon and Xeon Phi Chips
Among other things, Moore's Law allows for the successive integration of system components onto processors. Various levels of cache memory as well as main memory controllers and peripheral controllers ...Full Article
Inside Intel’s 610K Core EDA System
Intel is the world’s largest chip maker and is also the dominant supplier of processors for servers. So it might seem that Intel would have an unlimited supply of ...Full Article
Microsoft to Drive RDMA Into Datacenters and Clouds
Software giant Microsoft has been using InfiniBand networking technology in its Azure cloud for a few years now, and has also been working with Mellanox Technologies to tune up ...Full Article
Cisco Converged System Sales Still Booming
Cisco Systems is another in a line of IT giants that are reporting sales that are lower than expected and a consequential impact to the bottom line in its ...Full Article
