Infrastructure Insights

AMD ‘Seattle’ Adds High-Speed Interconnect to Non-x86 Processors

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| June 19, 2013

AMD's upcoming server processors include "Berlin," an x86-based quad-core designed to function either as a low-power CPU or integrated GPU.

AMD unveils its first non-x86-based server chip with high-speed interconnect.

Enterasys Takes Half-Step to Software-Defined Datacenter

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| June 18, 2013

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Automation, management, convergence lead latest datacenter push.

Designing Ideal SaaS Applications

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| June 18, 2013

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Designing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products is fundamentally different from designing software for the more traditional client/server model.

China’s Tianhe-2 Highlights Growing Supercomputer Battle

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| June 18, 2013

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China trails only the U.S. on the Top500 list of supercomputers.

Intel Slide-Leaks Suggest Haswell Future

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| June 17, 2013

Leaked slide hinting at Intel's processor roadmap.

Intel could release a wide array of Haswell chips in two waves.

E3 Could Drive New Tech Strategies

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| June 17, 2013

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New tool-kits and platforms can make the development process that much more complicated.

Feds Closing Data Centers Find 3,000 Additional Ones

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| June 17, 2013

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The House of Representatives passes reform bill after revelations that the number of federal datacenters, and $4 billion in savings, can’t be validated.

Red Hat Packages Open-Source Cloud for Enterprise

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| June 14, 2013

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Red Hat launches PaaS service to compete with Azure, and a private cloud platform to compete with VMware.

Software-Defined Data Centers: Seeing Through the Hype

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| June 14, 2013

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Here’s where to find a little truth behind the buzz surrounding software-defined data centers (SDDCs).

IBM Layoffs Hit Software, Storage Employees

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| June 14, 2013

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The company began cutting jobs earlier this week, to the tune of 2,286 so far.

IBM Revs Supercomputer with Tech Found Mostly in Laptops

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| June 13, 2013

Blue Gene/L at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.

Flash memory in SSDs can do more than make your system boot faster.

Facebook Saves Datacenter Costs with Frigid Arctic Wind

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| June 13, 2013

Inside Facebook's new facility.

Power-efficient datacenter design takes advantage of Sweden’s natural cooling.

Obscure Mobile Technologies That Could Grow Big

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| June 13, 2013

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RDBS on machine-to-machine (M2M) devices, the use of auto jacks for data, and radio input top this list.

SSDs: New King of the Data Center?

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| June 12, 2013

SSDs are making inroads into data centers.

Big vendors push flash for the data center in high-performing SSD products.

Intel, HP Pitch Speedy SSDs for Datacenters

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| June 12, 2013

Intel's DC S3500.

SSDs have snowballed in the consumer market, but are just getting started in datacenters.

Deciding on a Software Delivery Process

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| June 12, 2013

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Before you can select a process, you need to answer some very big questions.

Grading Tech Firms on E-Waste

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| June 11, 2013

At least some of this can be recycled.

Datacenter equipment is a generator of e-waste, and thus a target of recycling efforts.

Apple Continuing with Server Enhancements

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| June 11, 2013

The upcoming Mac Pro: super-powered.

Don’t let all the hype around iOS fool you: behind the scenes, Apple is still tweaking its server offerings.

Making SharePoint an Architecture Repository

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| June 11, 2013

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SharePoint isn’t the easiest tool to work with, but it does support some key capabilities needed establish and organize an IT architecture practice.

Researchers Chase the Longer-Lasting Battery

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| June 10, 2013

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Longer-lasting batteries are essential for everything from the largest data-center UPS to the smallest mobile device.

Is Your Company Prepared for Security Threats?

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| June 10, 2013

Locking down infrastructure is an important first step.

New surveys offer mixed views on whether companies are truly prepared for the threats they face.

Huawei Resolves Hyper-V VLAN Connections at Enterprise WAN Scales

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| June 7, 2013

How TRILL, the standard protocol, works to resolve IP addresses in a network.

Connecting VLANs is tricky because their addresses overlap and aren’t portable; gateways resolve conflicts.

NSA Building Massive Datacenter in Maryland

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| June 7, 2013

This is how the NSA breaks ground on new facilities.

The long-planned data center will expand the NSA’s high-performance computing abilities.

Invisibility Cloak Hides Data in a Hole in Time

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| June 6, 2013

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Researchers turn temporal cloaking from a curiosity into something close to commercial practicality.

Java, Big Data and the OpenWorm Project

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| June 6, 2013

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The worlds of biology, particularly microbiology, and computing are rapidly converging.