Intel partners with eASIC for custom cloud silicon
On May 12, Intel announced that it would develop integrated products with eASIC that combine superior processing performance and customizable hardware for data centers and the cloud. The companies...
View ArticleThe best ways to manage data center airflow
Ask anyone outside the enterprise IT department to identify the greatest data center cost, and they’re apt to say servers. That’s true in some businesses; hardware costs are not trivial. But the truth...
View ArticleDeftly Pulling Your Servers’ Strings with Puppet
If all you’re doing is running a single server instance, you don’t need DevOps tools such as Puppet. But, if you’re setting up and managing multiple servers, you need Puppet. Oh, you could run dozens...
View ArticleDrilling into Big Data with Apache Drill
Apache’s Drill goal is striving to do nothing less than answer queries from petabytes of data and trillions of records in less than a second. You can’t claim that the Apache Drill programmers think...
View ArticleCisco projects data center-cloud traffic to triple by 2017
According to networking giant Cisco, it’s a cloud, cloud, cloud, cloud world as cloud-based network traffic explodes. Besides data center/cloud network growing at a remarkable rate, Cisco also foresees...
View ArticleOpenDaylight: Open Source Programming to the Software-Defined Network
If you follow networking vendors, you know they get along with one another about as well as a dog whose tail has just been pulled and a cat who’s had a bucket of water dumped on him. That’s why it was...
View ArticleOpenDaylight Project finds industry wants open-source SDN
It’s not too surprising that members of the Linux Foundation’s OpenDaylight Project believe that the networking industry thinks open source is the future for software-defined networking (SDN). After...
View ArticleRed Hat starts work on 64-bit ARM servers
Red Hat, the Linux king today and the would-be OpenStack cloud king tomorrow, is putting its money and resources on the line by betting — with its ARM Partner Early Access Program — that the 64-bit ARM...
View ArticleSanDisk’s new PCIe application accelerators arrive
SanDisk promises that its new flash-based storage systems and software will eliminate many of the I/O performance problems your data center faces today. They may just have something here. SanDisk’s new...
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