IBM Appliances Ease Deployment of DB2 BLU Analytics
Back in April, IBM put out a tech preview of its BLU Acceleration in-memory feature for its DB2 database. Now the software is shipping, and the company is packaging ...Full Article
IBM Slashes Hardware Prices to Push Linux on Power
As it had been hinting to EnterpriseTech that it would do, IBM has taken a page out of its mainframe playbook and is offering cut-throat prices on processing capacity and ...Full Article
Unisys Looks Ahead with Forward Xeon-InfiniBand Clusters
What do you get when you mix Xeon servers, InfiniBand switching, and virtualization and workload management software from a venerable mainframe maker? You get the new Forward systems from ...Full Article
SAP Fills Out Its Hadoop Dance Card
Recently, SAP has begun a fresh push to beef up its big data chops, including the addition of new partnerships to distribute two different flavors of Apache Hadoop to ...Full Article
Xeon to Power the Single European Sky
Nearly 30 years ago, Aena, the Spanish Airports and Air Navigation authority, developed SACTA – a project devised to automate and harmonize air traffic control in the Spanish territory. ...Full Article
Big Blue Wants Your Big Linux Apps On Power
Hot on the heels of its $1 billion investment to foster the porting of applications, modern systems software, and development tools to Linux running on its Power processors, IBM ...Full Article
Calxeda Gearing Up To Push ARM Server Clusters To The Extreme
It is important for a startup to not do too many things at once – to develop a roadmap aimed at an emerging market, and to stick to it. This is ...Full Article
Penguin Demos Atom Powered Microserver
Penguin Computing recently debuted their newest integrated SoC design that Penguins says was built with Facebook’s Open Compute Project at the fore. The heart of the new microsever’s design ...Full Article
Oracle Stresses System Performance and Scalability
As Oracle Team USA's dramatic come-from-behind win over Emirates Team New Zealand in the America's Cup yacht race aptly demonstrates, Oracle's co-founder and CEO, Larry Ellison, believes in extreme ...Full Article