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Tiffany Trader

With over a decade’s experience covering the HPC space, Tiffany Trader is one of the preeminent voices reporting on advanced scale computing today.

Intel to Acquire AI Startup Nervana Systems
August 9th, 2016 Comments Off on Intel to Acquire AI Startup Nervana Systems
If we needed another sign that Intel is serious about mining AI market opportunities, it came today when the chip company announced it had inked a “definitive agreement” to acquire artificial intelligence and deep learning company Nervana Systems. Financial terms ...

Mellanox Spins EZchip/Tilera Aquisition Into BlueField Networking Silicon
June 1st, 2016 Comments Off on Mellanox Spins EZchip/Tilera Aquisition Into BlueField Networking Silicon
Mellanox today introduced the BlueField family of programmable processors, the first product technology based on its $811 million acquisition of fellow Iraeli high-tech company EZchip. The fact that the product announcement is taking place just three months after the ...

Spectra Logic Ushers in Nearline Disk at 10 Cents/GB
October 15th, 2015 Comments Off on Spectra Logic Ushers in Nearline Disk at 10 Cents/GB
At SpectraSummit held in Boulder, Colorado, this week, Spectra Logic debuted a new nearline disk storage system, called ArcticBlue, which snaps into the company’s BlackPearl hybrid storage architecture to create an object storage based disk platform that ticks three primary ...

AWS Counters Google With Its Own Price Cuts
March 26th, 2014 Comments Off on AWS Counters Google With Its Own Price Cuts
The cloud pricing wars are hotter than ever. Yesterday Google announced some major price cuts from its live event in San Francisco, and today Amazon Web Services got out its red pen and chopped prices. At the AWS Summit ...

Google Aligns Cloud Pricing With Moore’s Law
March 25th, 2014 Comments Off on 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 massive price reductions, such that Google's cloud services are now ...

Facebook Open Sources Datacenter Efficiency Tracking Tools
March 24th, 2014 Comments Off on Facebook Open Sources Datacenter Efficiency Tracking Tools
Companies that operate hyperscale datacenters have gone to great lengths to boost efficiency, and to show their commitment to green computing some of these cloud giants are sharing their designs with others in the community. Facebook is at the ...

NCCC Pushes Credit Card Processing With Xeon E7 Processor
March 24th, 2014 Comments Off on NCCC Pushes Credit Card Processing With Xeon E7 Processor
Since its establishment in 1979, the National Credit Card Center (NCCC), the largest credit card processing center in Taiwan, has been working to enhance credit card functionality and services through the application of new technologies. The NCCC handles an ...

NY Attorney General Cracks Down On HFT Exchange Co-Location
March 21st, 2014 (1)
Going on six years now, America has been waiting to see if there will be any repercussions for Wall Street banking firms for their role in the global economic crisis. This week, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is ...

Red Hat Flexes OpenShift Online Pricing
March 19th, 2014 Comments Off on Red Hat Flexes OpenShift Online Pricing
This week prominent Linux vendor Red Hat added more flexible pricing options for its hosted Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud offering, OpenShift Online – a decision no doubt spurred by the harsh realities of cloud economics. The new Bronze pricing scheme ...

Facebook Uses Ikea Modular Approach In Second Swedish Datacenter
March 15th, 2014 Comments Off on Facebook Uses Ikea Modular Approach In Second Swedish Datacenter
Facebook announced it will be using new lean manufacturing concepts, developed as part of the Open Compute Project (OCP), for the construction of a second building at its existing Luleå, Sweden datacenter location. Luleå 2, as the site is ...
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