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Timothy Prickett Morgan

Enterprises Gravitate To Amazon’s Cloud
November 12th, 2014 (2)
If there is a consistent message coming out of Amazon Web Services from its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week, it is that enterprise adoption of Amazon’s public cloud is on the rise. Private and public organizations are ...

HGST Speeds Disk Design Work By 90X
November 11th, 2014 Comments Off on HGST Speeds Disk Design Work By 90X
HGST, the disk drive business formerly owned by IBM and then Hitachi that is now part of Western Digital, is in a constant battle with Seagate Technology and a slew of upstarts peddling other kinds of storage based on ...

Prodigal Cray CTO Looks Ahead To Converged Analytics
November 10th, 2014 Comments Off on Prodigal Cray CTO Looks Ahead To Converged Analytics
At the end of the summer, Steve Scott, the chief technology officer who brought many of Cray's interconnects and systems to life in the past several decades, came back to the company after taking key roles at graphics chip ...

AutoTrader.com Shifts Up Automation Gears
November 7th, 2014 Comments Off on AutoTrader.com Shifts Up Automation Gears
Like many enterprises, AutoTrader.com is on a journey from physical machines running distinct parts of its application stack toward a virtualized and automated cloud that allows for more efficiency and flexibility. It is a long journey, and one that ...

Cramming 220 PB In A Modular Datacenter
November 6th, 2014 Comments Off on Cramming 220 PB In A Modular Datacenter
Don't try to lift this by yourself. In the search for ever-cheaper and ever-denser storage, the customers that drive the Data Center Solutions unit at Dell have asked the company to forge a storage-heavy dual-node server that could cram ...

Dell Pushes Up Server Density With FX
November 5th, 2014 Comments Off on Dell Pushes Up Server Density With FX
Since founding its Data Center Solutions unit back in May 2006, which began with a custom server drawn on the back of a bar napkin at the Driskell Hotel in Austin, Texas, Dell has learned a lot about the ...

Google Leverages Container Expertise On Its Cloud
November 4th, 2014 (1)
Google may not be the first of the major public cloud operators to support Docker containers, but it aims to provide the best support for the popular container format. Docker, a lightweight virtualization technology that leverages many innovations that ...

New Dell GM Talks System Trends
November 4th, 2014 (1)
It has been a year now since Dell took itself private and removed itself from the prying eyes of Wall Street investors. The company had its share of drama as it went private, and its main rivals in the ...

Private Clone S3 Object Storage On A Massive Scale
November 3rd, 2014 Comments Off on Private Clone S3 Object Storage On A Massive Scale
In the hyperscale world, snippets of data pile up like mountains and a traditional file system that allows data to be updated is not only inappropriate, but too slow to serve up that data. This is precisely why object ...

Benefit From Microsoft’s Open Compute Hyperscale Designs
October 30th, 2014 Comments Off on Benefit From Microsoft’s Open Compute Hyperscale Designs
All large companies, whether they are hyperscale datacenter operators or cloud providers or they are enterprises supporting a diverse mix of workloads, wrestle with the polar opposites of creating unique systems to run particular applications and offering standard systems ...
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