Dell Debuts Active Fabric

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| April 15, 2013

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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 Plans to Consolidate Data Centers

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| April 12, 2013

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New York estimates the consolidation will save $50 million annually. Now, can they keep services up and running while the process takes place?

Oracle, Fujitsu Launch “Project Athena” Servers

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| April 12, 2013

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Fujitsu finally launches its SPARC64 X servers, with help from Oracle.

“Winnti” Attacks on Online Gaming Servers Dissected

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| April 11, 2013

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Kaspersky details how a group of Asian hackers quietly sets up shop within gaming servers, stealing “gold” and source code.

U.S. Gov’t Blocks Sales to Russian Supercomputer Maker

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| April 11, 2013

Supercomputers are sometimes used in nuclear-weapons research, a point of contention when it comes to trading and selling parts.

U.S. government suspects T-Platforms, which designed the world’s 26th largest supercomputer, of aiding Russia’s military and nuclear weapons programs.

Google Adds $390 Million to Belgian Datacenter Bet

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| April 10, 2013

The Belgian facility was the first Google data center to run entirely without refrigeration. Seen here, the canal outside the facility.

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 Details New Chips’ Feeds (But Not Speeds)

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| April 10, 2013

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Intel officially detailed its new Xeon, Atom processors for the datacenter.

Meet OpenDaylight: Open Source for SDNs

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| April 9, 2013

The founding members of the OpenDaylight project thought that cartoon birds (and bacon) would help sell their concept video.

Industry powerhouses under the auspices of the Linux Foundation have come together over an open-source implementation of software-defined networking.

Why Boring Data Centers Are the Best

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| April 9, 2013

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Data center designers should take a page from the High Performance Computing (HPC) market.

HP Hopes “Moonshot” Servers Will Kick Off Big Shift

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| April 8, 2013

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HP’s hyperscale server platform, designed around X86 and ARM chips, has begun to ship to customers.

Data Centers Expanding, Along with Power Budgets: Survey

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| April 8, 2013

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The survey has virtually all respondents planning to expand their data centers this year or next. But power is still a concern.

F5 Preannouncement Worries Analysts

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| April 5, 2013

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F5 Networks pre-announces lower revenues, worrying some that the application delivery controller network may be in decline.

LenovoEMC’s NAS Products Add Datacenter Capabilities, for Free

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| April 5, 2013

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The company formerly known as Iomega is upgrading its NAS products.

Solving Latency Issues with Cloud Storage

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| April 4, 2013

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Here’s one of many possible solutions for solving the latency that haunts cloud storage, specifically in the mobile space.

Leaked Intel Roadmap Tips Haswell, Avoton Release Dates

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| April 4, 2013

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The roadmap paints a picture of Intel’s next year in the server space.

HP’s Project Moonshot To Lift Off Next Week

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| April 3, 2013

HP's Redstone development platform, part of the company's "Project Moonshot" efforts.

HP to launch its low-power server on April 8; an Intel-based, dual ARM approach seems likely.

Next-Gen 400-GbE Development Set to Begin

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| April 3, 2013

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Hope you don’t mind waiting four years, though—it’s due in 2017, said the working-group chairman.

Nebula Debuts “Cloud Computer” Based on OpenStack

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| April 2, 2013

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The startup has designed OpenStack into hardware, debuting a cloud controller that can take industry-standard servers and transform them into a private cloud.

Mysterious “Project Catapult” Grows Bigger

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| April 2, 2013

Altoona is located outside scenic Des Moines.

Who owns the data center in Altoona, Iowa?

World’s First Petaflop Supercomputer, “Roadrunner,” Retired

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| April 1, 2013

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Los Alamos decided that operating Roadrunner, one of the first hybrid supercomputers, was too expensive.

Rackspace Preps for “Grizzly,” and Its New IBM “Frenemy”

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| April 1, 2013

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The next major release of OpenStack, “Grizzly,” is due soon. Rackspace CTO John Engates talks about the challenge of competing against partners.

Failing Over an Entire Data Center: No Biggie

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| March 29, 2013

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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 Radeon Sky Optimized for Cloud Gaming

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| March 29, 2013

Gaming via a remote server could gain traction in the years ahead.

AMD’s new graphics cards are designed for games streamed from a remote server.

Ship’s Anchor Suspected in Mideast Internet Problems

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| March 28, 2013

Monitoring service Renesys told the AP that Internet services in the general region had slowed, but not to any definitive degree.

CloudFlare DDoSed; saboteurs attack Egyptian undersea cable. But the most likely culprit for Internet problems in the region is an anchor.

Will Fujitsu’s New CEO Stimulate Stagnant Sales?

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| March 28, 2013

Supercomputers remain an essential part of the company's bottom line.

Fujitsu America names a former Genpact exec to oversee U.S. operations, including cloud, data center, and mobile sales.