China's Milkyway 2, also known as Tianhe-2, has retained the number one ranking on the twice-yearly Top500 list of the most powerful supercomputers in the world.

VMware vCloud Hybrid receives a HIPAA asessment, HyTrust acquires HighCloud Security, OnApp extends its IaaS platform to external hosts, and GenieDB launches an online management console for geo-distributed MySQL databases.

With the Supercomputing Conference coming up next week in Denver, Penguin launches a HPC appliance, NVIDIA releases CUDA6 for simplifying Parallel Computing, and AMD introduces a 12GB supercomputing server graphics card.

Los Alamos National Laboratory selected DataDirect Networks to deliver high-performance storage to support its institutional computing program.

With greater data center resource capabilities, you can now deliver rich content to many distributed users. While every enterprise has its own set of business requirements, depending on the type of organization, vertical, how the user interacts...

With so much focus on cloud, it's equally important to meet security challenges that occur on modern virtualization platforms. In working with virtualization, just like any other technology, security must be a priority. It's time to create cloud...

At VMworld 2013 in Barcelona this week VMware expanded its Hybrid vCloud Service by adding vCloud data centers in the U.S. and the UK, vaulted into a leader position in the Desktop as a Service market by acquiring Dessktone, and expanded...

Emerging from stealth mode Tuesday, Andreesen Horowitz-backed startup Coho Data unveiled an SDN storage appliance called Coho DataStream, which packages key elements of public cloud into an on-premise solution.

The government shutdown is being felt in the supercomputing sector, where the sudden halt to government projects has led to a selloff in shares of several companies that specialize in high-performance computing.