While VMware just revealed the specifics on its shared-infrastructure play and has to play catch-up with Amazon Web Services, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger can think of a few advantages of its own.
Facebook experiences 1,000 times more traffic inside its data centers than it sends to and receives from outside users. That traffic growth has prompted the social network to design a fabric networking architecture.
The latest fight between ISPs and over-the-top providers is taking place deep in the network, away from the eyes of regulators and consumers. Welcome to the world of peering fights.
The modern data center is being asked to do a lot more for the ever-evolving business organization. New technologies around cloud computing, big data and IT consumerization have placed the data center environment in the spotlight. With these growing trends and more demands from companies trying to moving to the cloud, data centers are looking for ways to optimize efficiency.
SGI and DoD launch the #14 supercomputer, NVIDIA uses its GPUs to build an artificial neural network, Cray launches a x86 storage solution, and Intel, Mellanox and Xyratex all tout their impact on the Top500 supercomputers.
Switches are the last bastion of the vertically integrated box inside the data center. Many companies want to change that and Cumulus Networks hopes to help by offering a Linux-based OS for switches.
The data center incentive arms race continues, as legislators in existing industry hubs are adopting beefed-up incentives. The latest state to pass enhanced incentives is Arizona.
At the recently concluded Copenhagen Summit on climate change and energy conservation, great stress was laid on reducing the carbon footprint of all nations, with special emphasis on developing nations like India.
Chipmaker AMD announced a strategy and roadmap Tuesday, aimed at enterprise and data center servers. including a 64-bit ARM SoC in 2014.
Datapipe's announcement it is putting its latest and greatest cloud technology into Verne Global's data center in Iceland (Disclaimer: Yes, Verne underwrites this blog) should be a wake-up call to the rest of the industry. High performance computing and/or Big Data applications are 1) Big growth areas as the world wants to accumulate more data and analyze it and 2) Big whopping energy consumers.
I.B.M. announced it has 100 cloud computing offerings and is targeting executives in areas like marketing and human resources.
Back in 2009, in Datacenter Networks are in my way, I argued that the networking world was stuck in the mainframe business model: everything vertically integrated. In most datacenter networking equipment, the core Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC – the heart of a switch or router), the entire hardware platform for the ASIC including power and physical network connections, and the software stack including all the protocols all come from a single vender and there is no practical mechanism to make different choices.
It can be really hard to get the media to publish complex concepts which is why companies will submit their own articles. Google's Luiz Barroso and Jeff Dean have an article on Google's Data Center challenge to provide low latency performance at scale.
t’s true that cloud computing technology’s main appeal is the benefits it provides with regard to being cost effective and their ability to reduce a company’s environmental footprint, especially when compared to conventional data center farms. However, many industry experts are still wondering how to quantify these benefits and provide a more accurate, or at least consistent readings of the cloud’s impact and benefits.
The modern data center is a part of the “on-demand” generation where data, applications, and workloads need to be constantly available. Part of this drive has been the technologies around cloud computing, a lot more data center need, and of course – virtualization. This new generation of virtual computing and storage resources dictate that SPs need more than a pair of (active and backup) data centers — and typically require many data centers to support their enterprise customer base.
An IDC study shows why coprocessors are gain ground in the HPC market so fast, and Cray, Supermicro and Cirrascale show support for the new Intel Xeon Phi products.
IT departments and data centers are on a constant treadmill to deliver continuous optimizations for faster and cheaper delivery, yet always at more scale. The requirements never end: Faster. Larger. Cheaper. Quicker. Features versus speed. Cost versus performance. Ease versus flexibility. Solution architecting can be the difference between long-term success and failure.
Data center developer DuPont Fabros Technology has made changes to its revolving credit facility that provide additional funding to support another major construction project.
AMD is pinning its hopes for competing with Intel in the server market on the expected growth in popularity of server chips based on designs from British company ARM, the chip maker said on Monday. The company’s first ARM-based server chip, code-named “Seattle”, will begin shipping in volume in the second half of 2014, marking a departure for the chip maker, which has used the same x86 instructions as Intel since the 1980s.
Managed services and infrastructure solutions provider Datapipe has recently partnered with Verne Global to offer customers its Stratosphere high performance computing (HPC) cloud platform delivered from renewable-resource powered Verne Global's data center campus in Iceland.
June 18, 2013 -- The first Technology session of day two of HostingCon 2013 tackled what is quite possibly the biggest trend in hosting today: the hybrid cloud.Keep on reading: The Coming Hybrid Wave: Colocation and the Cloud
AMD has released its new server roadmap, which includes its first ARM-based chip aimed at the data center. This is big for AMD and an evolution of the data center.
Intel continued to fuel its growth in technical computing Monday, with big announcements of new Xeon Phi products, and that its E5-2600 v2 processor product family and Phi coprocessors have helped catapult China's Tianhe-2 into the new number one position in the world for supercomputers.
New research shows that it's possible to train Google-style neural networks with GPUs and Infiniband at low cost. The work could help drive further GPU adoption.