Cray CS-Storm Packs A Serious GPU Punch
GPU accelerators for technical workloads are apparently like potato chips. You can’t have just one, or even two. That is why Cray has forged a new rack-based variant of ...Full Article
VMware Embraces OpenStack Clouds, Docker Containers
Even if you can beat them, sometimes you join them anyway because that is easier and more expedient. And so at the VMworld event in San Francisco today, VMware ...Full Article
VMware Takes On Hyperconvergence Upstarts With EVO:RAIL
For the past several years, VMware has concentrated on turning server virtualization into clouds, and it left one of its flanks unguarded as it coped with the onslaught of ...Full Article
Microsoft’s Own Five Year Move To The Azure Cloud
Just because you have built one of the world's largest clouds does not necessarily mean that you can easily move your own applications to it. Such is the case ...Full Article
HP Systems Get A Bump Thanks To IBM-Lenovo Deal
The expected drawn-out regulatory approval process for IBM's sale of its System x X86 server business to Lenovo Group has put some bounce into the X86 server line from ...Full Article
Google, Mesosphere Make A Google Clone For The Masses
Creating Google-like hyperscale infrastructure is going to be a whole lot easier thanks to a development partnership between the search engine giant and Mesosphere, an upstart application platform and ...Full Article
IBM Techies Pit Docker, KVM Against Linux Bare Metal
IBM has only recently caught the KVM bug, and has even gone so far as to create a variant of the KVM hypervisor that runs atop its Power8 systems ...Full Article
Stat Czar Vince Gennaro Harnesses Baseball’s Mountain Of Data
The amount of data being captured, stored, and analyzed during a Major League Baseball (MLB) game has, like players' salaries and the net worth of big league franchises, exploded. ...Full Article
Oracle Cranks Up The Cores To 32 With Sparc M7 Chip
Say what you will about Oracle co-founder and CEO Larry Ellison, but when the software giant bought Sun Microsystems more than four years ago, for $7.4 billion, he said ...Full Article
Applied Micro Plots Out X-Gene ARM Server Future
At the Hot Chips 26 conference being hosted in Silicon Valley this week, upstart ARM server chip maker Applied Micro is presenting details on its roadmap for its X-Gene ...Full Article
