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John Rath is a veteran IT professional and regular contributor at Data Center Knowledge. He has served many roles in the data center, including support, system administration, web development and facility management.

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New IBM PureSystems Tuned For Big Data and Clouds
February 6th, 2013 : John Rath
IBM has announced major advances to its PureSystem family of integrated systems, directly targeting a big data technology and services market that IDC says will reach $16.9 billion by 2015. Read More
Massive New Data Center Will Bring Windows Azure to China
February 6th, 2013 : John Rath
Chinese ISP 21Vianet has started construction of a new data center in Beijing that will house 5,000 cabinets. The facility will power Microsoft's premier commercial cloud services in China, including Windows Azure. Read More
Deal News: Oracle Acquires Acme Packet
February 5th, 2013 : John Rath
Oracle (ORCL) announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Acme Packet (APKT), a global provider of session border control technology, for approximately $1.7 billion. Plus acquisition news from IBM, Twitter and The 451 Group. Read More
Cisco Expands SDN, Unveils New Nexus Switch
February 5th, 2013 : John Rath
Cisco (CSCO) announced a variety of innovations for its Unified Data Center strategy, with a high density 40 Gigabit switch, a hybrid cloud solution, and a new controller. That included the Nexus 6000, a 96 port line rate 40-gigabit fixed form factor switch with Ethernet and Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). Read More
Customer Wins for CyrusOne, Peak 10 and PEER 1
February 1st, 2013 : John Rath
CyrusOne (CONE) announced that CARFAX has selected the Carrollton Texas CyrusOne data center to house its 11 billion vehicle history records. Peak 10 and Peer 1 also announced customer wins. Read More
Eurora Sets Supercomputing Energy Efficiency Record
February 1st, 2013 : John Rath
The new Eurora system has set a new record for supercomputing energy efficiency, reaching 3,150 megaflops per watt of sustained performance - a mark 26 percent higher than the top system on the most recent Green500 list of the world's most efficient supercomputers. Read More
Sequoia Supercomputer Breaks 1 Million Core Barrier
January 31st, 2013 : John Rath
The Stanford Center for Turbulence Research (CTR) has set a new record in computational science, using the Sequoia supercomputer with more than one million computing cores to solve a complex fluid dynamics problem — he prediction of noise generated by a supersonic jet engine. Read More
Report: Big Data Market May Hit $23 Billion
January 31st, 2013 : John Rath
International Data Corporation (IDC) has issued a new report forecasting that the worldwide market for big data technology and services will reach $23.8 billion in 2016. Read More
Data Center News: PeakColo, AIS, Phoenix NAP, Verne Global
January 30th, 2013 : John Rath
Customer wins for NYI, American Internet, and Phoenix NAP, and an additional certification for Verne Global in Iceland. Read More