Intel, Facebook Accelerate Datacenters With FPGAs
Intel Corp.'s plan to combine its next Xeon processor with a batch of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) along with ongoing collaboration with Facebook aims to accelerate a growing ...Full Article
ARM Scales Chips for Datacenters, HPC
ARM Ltd., the U.K. chip design and licensing vendor, is targeting datacenters and processors intended for high-performance computing in a chip process technology deal with the world's largest chip ...Full Article
Pivot3 Will Use New Funding to Integrate Flash Acquisition
Storage specialist Pivot3, which recently acquired flash array startup NexGen Storage Inc., said this week it has completed a $55 million funding round as it rolls out an expanded ...Full Article
Facebook’s ‘Building Blocks’ Mantra Includes Intel
Facebook executives touted the advantages of its datacenter "building blocks" approach during the Open Compute Project (OCP) summit as a way to achieve flexibility and faster scaling. Meanwhile, it ...Full Article
Lenovo, Juniper Eye China Datacenters With Server Partnership
As it seeks to boost global demand for servers, especially in the nascent Asian market, Lenovo announced a "global strategic partnership" this week with networking specialist Juniper Networks aimed ...Full Article
HPE Opens Up Server Storage, Networking
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) continues to open up its cloud infrastructure offerings with the release of a new storage server line as its targets the datacenter shift to ...Full Article
Docker Platform Preps Containers for Production
Directly addressing concerns about its readiness for production, application container leader Docker is rolling out "container-as-a-service" platform designed to ease application development and management at scale. The Docker Datacenter ...Full Article
AWS Acquires NICE Compute-Intensive Cloud and Visualization Technologies
In announcing its acquisition of NICE, the Italy-based software-as-a-service provider for high performance and technical computing, Amazon and AWS not only acquire technology for optimizing customers’ HPC, cloud and ...Full Article
HPE to OEM SGI UV 8-Socket Technology for In-Memory Processing of Linux Workloads
An 8-socket server with in-memory of 6TB for running enterprise decision support Linux supply chain, ERP and CRP workloads in real time or near real-time: that’s the strategy behind ...Full Article
Converged IT Market To Benefit from ‘Refresh’ Projects
As datacenter managers seek to harmonize computing, storage and networking infrastructure, a market watcher forecasts that enterprise investments in this converged infrastructure along with servers will jump during the ...Full Article
