Dell announced servers based on designs the company is implementing in an upcoming 10-petaflop supercomputer called Stampede, which will be fully deployed at the University of Texas, Austin, starting next year. The PowerEdge C8000 servers ...
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IT leaders will need to “get real” and stop saying that everything is moving into the cloud during 2013, according to analyst firm Forrester. In a blog entry which counts down the company’s top 10 cloud predictions for ...
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Red Hat has announced the availability of the first beta of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation 3.1. Current Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation customers are able to access the beta via the Red Hat Network today. The platform is expected to ...
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Nicira, the software-defined networking (SDN) startup that VMware purchased for $1.2 billion earlier this year, plans to release an SDN product that runs independent of the underlying hypervisor and hardware that will work in VMware ...
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After a number of delays, the beta of the Fedora 18 Linux-based distribution has been released. The beta release date had been extended six times over the past two months, mostly due to an underestimation of the amount of work required to ...
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The global software market grew 4.7 percent in the first half of this year to US$167 billion, with CRM (customer relationship management), virtualisation and collaboration coming in as the fastest-growing segments, according to figures ...
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Dell has announced servers based on designs the company is implementing in an upcoming 10-petaflop supercomputer called Stampede, which will be fully deployed next year. The PowerEdge C8000 servers use standard Intel x86 CPUs and offer ...
Tags: Dell, Petabyte, Petaflop, servers, supercomputers
The Large Hadron Collider(LHC),which aims to answer fundamental questions of the universe's existence,is one of CERN's most important projects.But as the LHC produces 1PB of data every second,big data and lack of computing resources were ...
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IDG News Service-IBM on Tuesday announced the Storwize V3700 storage array,which starts at$11,000 and is one of the lowest-priced storage products the company offers. The V3700 array comprises a stack of technologies including ...
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Cloud computing is moving away from being monolithic,where Amazon Web Services(AWS)was the only major cloud service provider,to a marketplace technology,with several cloud-based service providers,as users'appetite for cloud grows,according ...
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Network World-The discovery of a somewhat alarming bug in the Linux ext4 filesystem provoked a minor wave of panic this week,but project maintainer Theodore Ts'o says it has since become clear that the problem can likely only affect a small ...
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Infoworld-In releasing updates to its client and server Ubuntu Linux distributions today,Canonical will enable users to turn off a search option in its client product that has raised some eyebrows over privacy issues.A ...
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Network World-SAN DEIGO--If the OpenStack Summit held this week is any indication,virtual networking is a hot IT topic. A panel discussion about virtual networking in the cloud featuring representatives from HP,Big Switch and Midokura was ...
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Network World-Midokura,a Japanese startup focused on network virtualization,this week said it is entering the U.S.market with a distributed software defined network product designed for Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS). The companys ...
Tags: Japanese virtualization, network virtualization, IaaS, MidoNet
When you think about the leading cloud computing companies,does the name Red Hat spring to mind?Jim Whitehurst hopes it does.In fact,the CEO of the rapidly growing,Raleigh,NC-based,open source company,is doing everything in his power to ...
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