From chips to servers, Data Center Knowledge's hardware section covers the latest news, trends, and analysis on the components and systems used in data center infrastructure.
An ambitious project at the University of Chicago aims to lead the nation in biomedical computation, by making the region the largest hub in the world for genetic and medical information. At the forefront of the effort is Bionimbus, an open source...
Cray announced a new addition to its XC30 systems, with the XC30-AC (air-cooled) supercomputer. The new model includes all of the advanced high performance computing (HPC) technologies offered in the Cray XC30 system, and features aggressive price...
At EMC World, Brocade announced that its SAN solutions are integrated with EMC's new ViPR platform, and Dimension Data adds tiered EMC storage to its Public Compute-as-a-Service offering.
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...
As it processes more than 528 million pieces of mail each day, the USPS has become an active participant in the big data revolution, and operates one of the most powerful non-classified supercomputing databases in the world.
Ever wonder about the meaning of a FLOP? This video from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, explores what FLOP means for computing, and more specifically, supercomputing. It also gives an overview of trends in supercomputing and how they impact...
As the Portland OpenStack Summit draws to a close, Hortonworks, VMware, and NetApp all had announcements. Among the focus areas include support for Apache Hadoop and a potential file-sharing service.
The Linux Foundation and Citrix announced that Xen Project is becoming a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project. Started ten years ago, the Xen Project open source virtualization platform has led to Citrix XenServer, a powerful cloud platform.
At the OpenStack Summit this week in Portland, Midokura announced the general availability of MidoNet, a distributed software-defined virtual network solutions specifically designed for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
More organizations are looking for way to optimize their data enter environments in an effort to meet industry demands. Through advanced technologies including virtualization, and high-density computing – your company can revisit the data center...