Infrastructure Insights

Intel on H-1Bs and Recruiting Talent

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| May 21, 2013

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H-1Bs represent approximately 6 percent of the company’s workforce.

NSA Data Center the Focus of Tax Controversy

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| May 20, 2013

Not a whole lot of people in Utah. Perfect for a top-secret data center.

A federal government agency cries foul over a state tax bill. Ironic, no?

CFOs Face Big Data, Infrastructure Investments

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| May 20, 2013

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Big Data and analytics can solve most of the issues facing CFOs, as long as they’re willing to spend the cash.

Seawater: Nature’s Data-Center Chiller

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| May 17, 2013

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More companies are finding sea water safe and effective for use in cooling data centers.

Data Center Managers Worn Out by PUE Chase

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| May 17, 2013

IT giants such as Apple can throw millions at making their data centers more efficient.

Green fatigue and a lack of finances and leadership are starting to wear down managers of smaller IT organizations.

Fedora, Calxeda Roll Out New ARM-Powered Servers

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| May 16, 2013

Boston Ltd.'s new microserver.

The new servers will hold up to 48 processors in a 2U chassis for a variety of workloads.

Programmers Guild: American Workers Need Protection

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| May 16, 2013

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The Programmers Guild president talks employment policies and H-1B visas.

Cisco’s Server Business Continues Its Momentum

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| May 16, 2013

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The company’s server business has enjoyed some success lately.

Modular Data Centers Gaining Momentum

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| May 15, 2013

A Dell modular data center, complete with colorful graphics denoting airflow.

The full-scale data center may be losing its luster, but not plug-and-play modular compute centers.

Government Can’t Account for Savings From Data Center Closures

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| May 15, 2013

Your tax dollars at work.

Despite a massive closure effort and migration to the cloud, government sees no savings from data-center consolidation.

Alternative to Top500 List In the Works

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| May 14, 2013

Blue Waters.

A quiet movement to replace Linpack as the benchmark of choice for evaluating a supercomputer might mean that the Top500′s days are numbered.

Can Vendor Salesmen Be Trusted to Tell You When to Buy New Parts?

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| May 14, 2013

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Customers typically swap out networking equipment every five years, whether they need to or not, a new survey finds.

GM Data-Center Expansion Saves Crash Test Dummies

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| May 13, 2013

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GM estimated that simulating the crashes could save enormous amounts of cash over hurling physical cars (and test dummies) into walls.

Dell Beefs Up Features to Run SAP

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| May 13, 2013

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Dell is now qualified to run the SAP Business Suite, which could mean big bucks for server makers.

Data Centers as Art, Really?

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| May 10, 2013

Seriously.

Xi3 unveils a flexible arrangement of its microservers that the company claims can be mounted as a sort of sculpture.

Japan Planning Exascale Computer for 2020

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| May 10, 2013

Japan wants the world's supercomputer crown.

But can the country re-establish its supercomputing dominance?

Fusion-io Co-Founders, CEO Jump Ship

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| May 9, 2013

Shane Robison, Hewlett-Packard's former chief strategy and technology officer.

HP’s former CTO, Shane Robison, is being asked to right whatever’s wrong at Fusion-io.

Look Out, Cisco: Open Compute Project Is Moving to Switches

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| May 9, 2013

Cisco switches: Doomed?

The next step for the Open Compute Project is a top-of-rack switch built entirely from the ground up.

Syria’s Internet Goes Dark, Before Brightening Again

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| May 8, 2013

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Internet monitors watch as Syria’s Internet access goes down, only to return almost a day later.

“Small Cells” May Offload Data to Ease Data Centers

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| May 8, 2013

Small cell.

PMC Sierra’s CEO says that “small cell” cellular points are asking for flash memory.

Cray’s XC30-AC: A Steal At Just $500,000

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| May 7, 2013

A Cray XC30 compute module.

The perpetually struggling supercomputer company adds a new, cheaper air-cooled model to win new customers.

EMC Gives Storage an SDN Twist

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| May 7, 2013

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EMC’s new ViPR technology uses a controller to create, abstract, and manage pools of storage (with VMware’s help, of course).

Intel’s Atom Redesign Aimed at Datacenters, Devices

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| May 6, 2013

Silvermont Saltwell

Intel executives describe Silvermont, the first redesign of its Atom architecture in years.

Nginx Passing Microsoft in Web’s Server Shootout

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| May 6, 2013

Web server developers: Market share of all sites.

Netcraft’s May data shows another piece of open-source software beginning to edge past Microsoft.

“Time Warp” Improves Sequoia’s Performance

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| May 3, 2013

The "Sequoia" Blue Gene/Q supercomputer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).

Scientists at LLNL and RPI describe how a synchronization protocol uncovers parallelism in the “Sequoia” supercomputer as it scales up over time.