Asset Disposal: Old Computers Bring New Security Worries
In an age where organizations are consolidating datacenters, embracing cloud, and data infiltrates everything via the Internet of Things (IoT), enterprises increasingly must consider how to securely, legally, and ...Full Article
HP Launches HPC & Big Data Global Business Unit
When HP finally divides into two pieces – HP Inc. (PCs and printers) and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (servers and services) – how will the HPC portfolio fare? Views vary ...Full Article
Dell’s Goal: Democratize HPC
Dell hopes to do for HPC what it did for personal computers: Democratize high-performance computers across a broad swathe of enterprise applications. "HPC is at the core of everything ...Full Article
Intel Xeon Gets Graphics Boost as Video Floods Datacenters
A day after announcing it would integrate FPGAs with its Xeon processor to create a datacenter-focused system-on-chip, Intel rolled a new version of it Xeon processor family with new ...Full Article
SRC Enters Commercial Hyperscale Space with Saturn 1 Server
A long-time staple in the world of defense contracting computing, SRC Computers today made its first foray into the commercial space with the introduction of a hyperscale server. Named ...Full Article
Energy Exec: Cloud Services Not Like Datacenters
Simply eliminating the datacenter, embracing SaaS, and moving to cloud will not necessarily transform a company. That, at least, was the case for DrillingInfo, which morphed from an online ...Full Article
VCE Launches VxRacks at EMC World 2015
EMC division VCE took the spotlight at EMC World 2015's opening keynote when it introduced a family of hyper-converged rackscale systems designed to simplify the deployment of next-generation scale-out ...Full Article
Facebook Combines OSquery Tool With RocksDB
Facebook reported progress this week toward integrating its open source osquery tool with the open source RocksDB that serves as an embedded database to store and speed up access ...Full Article
SGI UV for SAP HANA Doubles Sockets, In-Memory Computing Capacity
Within about six months, SGI doubled the number of sockets on its SGI UV for SAP HANA and is awaiting SAP's certification on the next iteration of its appliance. ...Full Article
Apple’s Siri Leverages Apache Mesos
Question: What makes the latest version of Siri, the personal assistant and "knowledge navigator" in the Apple iOS, tick? Answer: The Apache Mesos open-source cluster manager, according to a ...Full Article