
Mesosphere Touts ‘Container 2.0’
In a bid to jumpstart what it calls a "Container 2.0" movement, application container pioneer Mesosphere announced partnerships with big data vendors designed to push distributed application technology to ...Full Article
Datacenter Security Attracts More Investors
Efforts to lock down security in datacenters continue to expand as operators seek to assure enterprise customers they can meet increasingly strict regulatory and other data governance rules even ...Full Article
eBay’s Liquid Cooled Billion-transactions-a-day Data Center
Water transports heat 25 times more efficiently than air, but water and electronics don’t mix – hence the prevalence of air cooling in the data center. It’s controlling water’s ...Full Article
Study: Flash Going Mainstream, Driving Adoption of Big Data Analytics
The rapid emergence of Flash-based storage into the mainstream technology is a primary factor in the embrace of advanced scale computing in the enterprise – particularly big data analytics ...Full Article
VMware Bolsters Net Virtualization With Arkin Deal
Looking to bolster its network virtualization and security platform targeting software-defined datacenters, VMware said it is acquiring SDDC security and operations specialist Arkin Net to help extend its vRealize ...Full Article
HPE Rolls Docker-Ready Servers, Backs ‘Docker Datacenter’
Application container leader Docker's strategic alliance with Hewlett Packard Enterprise will deliver a new class of server that bundles the Docker Engine platform used to build and run containers. ...Full Article
Mesosphere Platform Adds Scheduler, Automation Tools
The Mesosphere, the datacenter operating system ecosystem formed by the company of the same name, continues to expand with the addition of a scheduler designed to determine whether workloads ...Full Article
Tech Giants Ally to Bring Coherence to Data Center Workloads
Overcoming one of the most vexing technical problems hampering performance in the data center - “cache incoherence,” the inability of different devices (CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs) to work together without ...Full Article
Lenovo, Nutanix Team on Converged IT Platform
Looking to expand the market for its server and hyper-converged infrastructure offerings, Lenovo and virtualization and storage integration partner Nutanix rolled out a new series of appliances this week ...Full Article
Scale-Out Platform Emerges With Foxconn Backing
Chinese electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn is among the early investors in the enterprise infrastructure platform developer DriveScale Inc. Emerging from stealth mode this week, DriveScale Inc. announced a $15 ...Full Article