SGI Supercomputer Upgrade to Boost Total Exploration in 2016
Energy giant Total will use its recently announced supercomputer upgrade to improve the productivity and efficiency of its seismic processing and reservoir simulation processes when the system goes live next ...Full Article
Quanta Cloud Raises Server Ante with GPUs
Quanta Cloud Technology, the server and storage unit of the Taiwanese manufacturer Quanta Computer, has over the last year been targeting the high end of the enterprise datacenter market. ...Full Article
Startup Vapor I/O Debuts Hyper-Converged Datacenter
Startup Vapor I/O emerged from stealth mode this week with its vision of a hyper-collapsed datacenter that seeks to add intelligence to the equation by including workloads "as a ...Full Article
HP Maintains Server Lead as Sales Growth Slows
Hyper-scale datacenter deployments along with cloud service provider installations drove global server shipments during the fourth quarter of 2014, according to a market researcher. Gartner Inc. reported Tuesday (March ...Full Article
Intel’s Rack-Scale Plan Gaining Traction
An Intel Corp. technologist speaking at a recent cloud industry event used the opportunity to mention a relatively recent approach to designing datacenter hardware: Intel's rack-scale architecture. The chipmaker ...Full Article
More Funding for Hyper-Converged Upstart Pivot3
Hyper-converged infrastructure specialist Pivot3 announced a $45 million funding round on Tuesday (Feb. 24). It said proceeds from the equity and bank-funding round will be used to expand its ...Full Article
Apache Mesos Emerges as Datacenter OS
The rise of Linux container technology as a means of packaging and running web applications is creating an opening for open source software needed to distribute and orchestrate app ...Full Article
Numascale Works with MonetDB to Extend the NumaQ In-Memory Analytics Offering sponsored content by Numascale
NumaQ comes installed and integrated with tested and integrated open source analytics software. NumaQ’s unique scalable in-memory architecture is matched to Spark's in-memory analytics engine, and to R's hunger ...Full Article
Survey Sees Continuing Datacenter Growth
The steady transition of digital businesses to the cloud is driving robust growth in the U.S. datacenter market, with Dallas and the Northern Virginia areas leading the way in ...Full Article
U.S. Datacenter Upgrades Plagued by Security Concerns
As the federal bureaucracy stumbles toward datacenter modernization primarily via consolidation and a shift to the cloud, more than two-thirds of U.S. IT operators said in a survey they ...Full Article
