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Treat Your Databases as Cattle, not Pets
Today, databases have to be treated like pets. Each is special and receives individualized care and attention. At scale, and with the need for greater agility, the issue of ...Full Article
Qualcomm Targets Intel Data Center Dominance with 10nm ARM-based Server Processor
Claiming no less than a reshaping of the future of Intel-dominated datacenter computing, Qualcomm Technologies, the market leader in smartphone chips, announced the forthcoming availability of what it says ...Full Article
HPE Rolls Out ‘Micro’ Datacenter
The evolution of Hewlett Packard Enterprise as an infrastructure software vendor advanced this week with the release of a "micro datacenter" offering that targets exponential data growth and the ...Full Article
Sweden Cuts Tax on Datacenter Power
As the data continues to pile up, so too does the stiffening competition to store and manage it. The latest gambit comes from energy-efficient Sweden, where the Scandinavian nation's ...Full Article
IBM Eyes Enterprise Workloads With PowerAI
Last year at SC15, IBM offered its vision of an accelerator-assisted computing paradigm enabled by the OpenPOWER ecosystem of diverse partners and focused on cognitive computing as the key ...Full Article
Hyper-scalers Speeding Apps Via FPGAs
Nimbix is the latest HPC cloud vendor to collaborate with FPGA pioneer Xilinx Inc. to accelerate cloud datacenter workflows that increasingly include computing-intensive data analytics, machine learning and video ...Full Article
VMs Still Have Legs, Survey Finds
Faster server provisioning and consolidation along with long-term cost savings remain the key benefits of virtualization, according to a new vendor survey, with virtual machines keeping pace with trendy ...Full Article
Move It: Gen-Z Consortium Vows New Semantic Fabric for Data Movement at Scale
Industry powerhouses have joined forces to address an issue that has confounded system architects since the advent of multi-core computing, one that has gained in urgency with the emergence ...Full Article
Privacy Framework Spurs Euro Datacenter Expansion
Cloud services and data governance vendors are moving swiftly to comply with a new U.S.-European Union privacy regime that imposes stricter requirements on U.S. companies for protecting the personal ...Full Article
Surge Seen for Software-Defined Datacenter Market
The booming big data market along with growing demand for automated datacenter operations are spurring adoption of management and other services offered by software-defined datacenters, according to a new ...Full Article
