Research firm, Gartner, forecasts the public cloud services market to reach $US131 billion this year, an 18.5 per cent year-on-year (YoY) growth from 2012′s $US111bn.” “The continued growth of the Cloud services market ...
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HP today announced new innovations aiming to strengthen its HP Converged Infrastructure portfolio. At its yearly Global Partner Conference in Las Vegas, the tech giant unveiled a new HP BladeSystem, HP Converged Storage and HP Networking ...
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Hewlett-Packard's effort to build ARM servers will get a boost from Texas Instruments, which will provide chips based on the latest ARM processor design. The TI chips will be offered as part of Project Moonshot, which is HP's effort to ...
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SPEC, the standards body for performance benchmarks, has released a new toolkit that should help customers choose the most energy-efficient server for the workloads they need to run. SPEC's Server Efficiency Rating Tool will be used by ...
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The global public cloud computing market will grow 18.5% in 2013 to $131 billion, up from $111 billion last year, research firm Gartner predicts. Through the next three years, cloud spending is predicted to total $677 billion, with almost ...
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Microsoft has joined the Open Data Center Alliance, a user-led organization that aims to simplify the purchasing of data center and cloud services by promoting interoperability and common standards. The alliance has gathered over 300 ...
ARM is promising close to 70% processor power savings with a new chip design called Big.Little, and mobile devices on display at the Mobile World Congress provided the first glimpse of how the technology works. The concept of Big.Little ...
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Hortonworks is bringing the popular open-source Apache Hadoop data processing platform to Microsoft shops. The company has released a beta version of its Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) Hadoop distribution for Windows and expects to ...
ARM's big.LITTLE processing combo, which pairs a Cortex A-15 with an A-7, has been adopted by five users - Renesas, Samsung, CSR, Fujitsu and MediaTek, ARM announced at MWC today. ARM says the technology saves up to 70% of processor ...
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Hortonworks is bringing the popular open-source Apache Hadoop data processing platform to Microsoft shops, it was reported on Monday. The company has released a beta version of its Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) Hadoop distribution for ...
IBM is looking for ways to bring mobile and social workloads onto mainframes as a way of keeping the expensive machines competitive in today's changing IT landscape. This isn't the first time the company has tried to find new uses for ...
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Computerworld - After offering solid-state drives (SSDs) in its storage arrays over the past three years, NetApp said it will begin selling an all-SSD array this year and what it called a "purpose-built" flash storage architecture in 2014. ...
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Hewlett-Packard is set to deliver a new blade that will quadruple the virtual desktops that can be deployed from one server compared to the company's previous offerings. The HP ProLiant WS460c Gen8 blade server uses graphics processors to ...
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OTG Management, which runs restaurants and other concessions in airports, is investing heavily in automation -- but it isn't using that as a rationale to reduce its workforce. The company has deployed iPads in its restaurants in airport ...
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The head of IBM's mainframe group is looking to bring mobile and social workloads into the platform in another move that would help the mainframe stay relevant and fend off competition from lower-cost systems. The mainframe has confounded ...