Virtualization
Big Hadoop Shops Are on a Hockey Stick Growth Curve
As the dominant supplier of commercially supported Hadoop software, Cloudera has perhaps the best view of what is going on among large enterprises as they use the platform. To ...Full Article
VMware Defies Competitive Pressures in the Datacenter
The server virtualization gravy train just keeps rolling for VMware. Despite ongoing and large investments in research and development, the company has been able to grow its net income ...Full Article
Tilera Rescues CPU Cycles with Network Coprocessors
Should an X86 processor be running network functions, or should those jobs be offloaded to a coprocessor? Tilera thinks it is time to get that work off the CPU ...Full Article
Pantex Turns to Data Virtualization for Nuclear Security
Pantex Plant, the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) facility where nuclear weapons are dismantled or modified for the Department of Defense, has developed a new program designed to secure ...Full Article
Unisys Looks Ahead with Forward Xeon-InfiniBand Clusters
What do you get when you mix Xeon servers, InfiniBand switching, and virtualization and workload management software from a venerable mainframe maker? You get the new Forward systems from ...Full Article
Verizon Takes On AWS With Homegrown Cloud Code
Here is something you don't see every day: A public cloud operator that starts from scratch and creates its own hypervisor and controller rather than using off-the-shelf software. Amazon ...Full Article
HP Targets vSwitch with 5900v
Adding another brick in the software-defined networking wall, HP announced their newest HP FlexFabric VirtualSwitch 5900v earlier this year, which they say targets VMware’s vSwtich by simplifying the network, ...Full Article
Cray Goes After Big Iron With ScaleMP Help
Supercomputer maker Cray is teaming up with ScaleMP to turn its CS300 clusters into virtual shared memory systems that are not only appropriate for some traditional HPC workloads, but ...Full Article
VMware Ships vSphere 5.5 Server Virtualization Wares
Server virtualization giant VMware has started shipping its latest iteration of its hypervisor and the tools that augment it, and is also now peddling further automate and orchestrate the ...Full Article
