Mellanox Technologies has long desired to be a major player in the Ethernet switching space, and with its forthcoming Spectrum switch ASICs and ConnectX-4 adapter cards, the company is positioning itself well to ride the next upgrade wave of Ethernet to roll into the datacenter. …
Anyone who has worked on the Google File System and then founded a hyperconverged server-storage company is probably going to have a slightly different perspective on all of the secondary storage in the datacenter that is used to house everything but the mission critical data that ends up on so-called “tier one” storage. …
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center, which has done a significant amount of research and development on alternative architectures for supercomputers over the years, has just fired up a prototype system based on the kinds of ARM chips that are typically found in smartphones and other client devices. …
When you have tackled some of the biggest database and storage problems in hyperscale computing, what do you do as an encore? …
All things being equal, all IT organizations would like to have the highest level of security on their machines that is possible. …
The Haswell Xeon E5 processor ramp is continuing a-pace, and Amazon Web Services is putting out a new variant of its EC2 compute instances that employ custom versions of these Intel processors. …
There is a disconnect between the database engines that underpin both relational databases and the SQL front ends that have been grafted onto Hadoop analytics tools and the underlying hardware on which these databases run. …
Enterprises like choices, they abhor vendor lock in, and they like the options that open source gives. …
Software defined networking means different things to a lot of people, and the strictest meaning and most open (in terms of open source) variant of SDN will not necessarily – or easily – vanquish quasi-proprietary variants of SDN from the datacenter. …
As a platform for doing analytics on large datasets that is much less costly than would be possible with parallel data warehouses, Hadoop and its myriad extensions and modified underpinnings has fulfilled its purpose. …
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