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Dell’s SDN-ready fabric infrastructure is optimized for the “east-west” traffic that executives say characterizes modern data centers.
New York estimates the consolidation will save $50 million annually. Now, can they keep services up and running while the process takes place?
Fujitsu finally launches its SPARC64 X servers, with help from Oracle.
Kaspersky details how a group of Asian hackers quietly sets up shop within gaming servers, stealing “gold” and source code.
U.S. government suspects T-Platforms, which designed the world’s 26th largest supercomputer, of aiding Russia’s military and nuclear weapons programs.
Google will put an additional 300 million Euro into its Belgian data center, in a region that has been traditionally under-served by corporate investment.
Intel officially detailed its new Xeon, Atom processors for the datacenter.
Industry powerhouses under the auspices of the Linux Foundation have come together over an open-source implementation of software-defined networking.
Data center designers should take a page from the High Performance Computing (HPC) market.
HP’s hyperscale server platform, designed around X86 and ARM chips, has begun to ship to customers.
The survey has virtually all respondents planning to expand their data centers this year or next. But power is still a concern.
F5 Networks pre-announces lower revenues, worrying some that the application delivery controller network may be in decline.
The company formerly known as Iomega is upgrading its NAS products.
Here’s one of many possible solutions for solving the latency that haunts cloud storage, specifically in the mobile space.
The roadmap paints a picture of Intel’s next year in the server space.
HP to launch its low-power server on April 8; an Intel-based, dual ARM approach seems likely.
Hope you don’t mind waiting four years, though—it’s due in 2017, said the working-group chairman.
The startup has designed OpenStack into hardware, debuting a cloud controller that can take industry-standard servers and transform them into a private cloud.
Los Alamos decided that operating Roadrunner, one of the first hybrid supercomputers, was too expensive.
The next major release of OpenStack, “Grizzly,” is due soon. Rackspace CTO John Engates talks about the challenge of competing against partners.
Microsoft details a lightning strike that took out its Chicago facility two years ago—with no harm done. The secret? Software resiliency—and guts.
AMD’s new graphics cards are designed for games streamed from a remote server.
CloudFlare DDoSed; saboteurs attack Egyptian undersea cable. But the most likely culprit for Internet problems in the region is an anchor.
Fujitsu America names a former Genpact exec to oversee U.S. operations, including cloud, data center, and mobile sales.