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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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Intel Launches Low-Power Silvermont Microarchitecture
May 7th, 2013 : John Rath
Intel (INTC) announced its microarchitecture named Silvermont, which will support low-power devices from smartphones to servers. The new design delivers a three-fold increase in performance at dramatically lower power than Atom, Intel's leading low-power processor core. Read More
EMC Unveils ViPR Software-Defined Storage Platform
May 7th, 2013 : John Rath
EMC World kicked off with the announcement of EMC ViPR Software-Defined Storage Platform, which is built for cloud environments and service providers, and designed to serve as the foundation for a modern storage architecture for future application deployments. Read More
Cloud News: Amazon Offers AWS Certification
May 6th, 2013 : John Rath
Amazon (AMZN) announced the launch of the new AWS Certification Program with the first of several exams that will made available in 2013. In other cloud news, Penguin Computing announced its Icebreaker CS storage platform, while Software AG acquired cloud vendor LongJump. Read More
Cloudera Launches SQL-on-Hadoop Solution
May 6th, 2013 : John Rath
Cloudera announced the general availability of Cloudera Impala, an open source, interactive SQL query engine for analyzing data stored in Hadoop clusters in real time. Read More
Intel Appoints Brian Krzanich As CEO
May 3rd, 2013 : John Rath
Intel (INTC) announced that the board of directors has unanimously elected Brian Krzanich as its next chief executive officer, succeeding Paul Otellini. Krzanich will become the sixth CEO in Intel's history Read More
Micron Unveils PCIe I/O Accelerator
May 3rd, 2013 : John Rath
Micron Technology (MU) announced a new PCIe all-flash I/O accelerator to improve overall performance in enterprise servers, appliances and storage platforms. Read More
Salesforce.com Selects NTT for UK Data Center
May 3rd, 2013 : John Rath
Salesforce.com (CRM) announced that it has signed an agreement with NTT Europe to establish a European data centre in the U.K. The facility is scheduled for completion in 2014. Read More
MapR Updates Big Data Platform For NoSQL and Hadoop
May 2nd, 2013 : John Rath
MapR Technologies has announced an update of its Big Data platform that provides performance improvements for NoSQL and Hadoop applications. With the MapR M7 Edition, MapR says it has removed the trade-offs organizations face when looking to deploy a NoSQL solution. Read More
Brocade Rolls Out Broad-Based SDN Strategy
May 2nd, 2013 : John Rath
Network equipment vendor Brocade (BRCD) this week rolled out a broad strategy to boost its offerings for software defined networking (SDN). The initiative spans both software and hardware, with a central component being the Brocade VCS Fabric technology. Read More