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SGI Modular HPC System Selected At the Department of Energy
September 28th, 2012 : John Rath
SGI announced that it has partnered with URS Energy and Construction to design, build and deploy an energy efficient high performance computing (HPC) system housed in an SGI ICE Cube Air modular data center. Read More
Seattle Completes Data Center Repairs Ahead of Schedule
September 4th, 2012 : Rich Miller
The city of Seattle has successfully completed repairs to the power system supporting its primary data center, completing the work more quickly than expected. Read More
Roundup: Power Assure, Dell, Violin Memory
August 13th, 2012 : John Rath
New UN framework based on Power Assure technologies, Dell helps power NASA Mars mission, Violin Memory helps virtualize 1,000 desktops at university. Read More
DOE Announces Funding for ‘Extreme Scale’ Supercomputers
August 10th, 2012 : John Rath
The federal government has awarded $62 million in contracts to advance "extreme scale" supercomputing, hoping to create machines that can deliver 1,000 times the performance of today's fastest computers. Read More
Fed Data Center Consolidation Flawed, Says GAO
July 23rd, 2012 : Rich Miller
The federal government's data center consolidation effort is being hampered by a lack of information from many agencies, according to the General Accounting Office, which has issued a report calling for stricter oversight of the effort. Read More
Reno Gets Another Data Center
July 20th, 2012 : Rich Miller
Defense IT specialist NJVC this week opened a 20,000 square foot data center in Reno, Nevada. The opening comes as Reno is gaining fresh attention as a data center destination int he wake of Apple's decision to build a new data center in the area. Read More
Defense IT Specialist NJVC Adding Data Centers
July 10th, 2012 : Rich Miller
NJVC, which specializes in IT services for government agencies, is expanding its infrastructure with a new data center in Richmond, Virginia, where it will host customers inside a 1.3 million square foot data center campus. Read More
Data Center Links: Dell, Cisco, SAP, Riverbed, Tilera
June 22nd, 2012 : John Rath
Dell awarded large NIH contract, SAP to resell Cisco IT Process Automation, Riverbed enhances Stingray application delivery controller, Tilera announces MDE 4 software. Read More
Federal IT Dashboard Boosts Accountability
April 5th, 2012 : Rich Miller
Former U.S. government' CIO Vivek Kundra says the development of the Federal IT Dashboard helped establish heightened accountability for struggling federal IT projects that were wasting taxpayer money. A key wrinkle: the dashboard made it easy for the President to track results. Read More