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
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
Red Hat Joins The Crowd On Google Cloud
The cloud is making for strange bedfellows, which may turn out to be another of its attributes as prices decline. Case in point: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is ...Full Article
Federated Cloud Services Offer Response To Commodity Pricing
As cloud services rapidly become a commodity, smaller local service providers are feeling the heat as market leaders Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft engage in a price war ...Full Article
Greenpeace Sees Progress Toward ‘Green’ Datacenters
We can't do much without power, and cloud computing services are using a growing share of the world's electrical power. That trend is expected to accelerate as emerging markets ...Full Article
Google Lifts Veil On “Andromeda” Virtual Networking
The biggest public cloud providers have adjacent businesses that actually fund the development of the infrastructure that starts out in their own operations and eventually makes its way into ...Full Article
Contract Manufacturer Jabil Sells Straight Into Hyperscale Datacenters
The hyperscale systems market is getting a new supplier, and this one is a big one with plenty of expertise in manufacturing complex servers and storage and integrating gear ...Full Article
Hyperscale Titans Team To Scale MySQL
Four of the titans of hyperscale Web applications – Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter – have teamed up to create a set of common extensions aimed specifically at running ...Full Article
Google Aligns Cloud Pricing With Moore’s Law
At its Cloud Platform Live event in San Francisco, Google launched several updates to its cloud services portfolio that aim to make it more competitive. Chief among these were ...Full Article
Google Makes Cassandra NoSQL Scream On Compute Engine
Search engine giant Google has an infrastructure and platform service called Cloud Platform, and it is up against some pretty stiff competition from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Windows Azure, ...Full Article
