Iceland: Where Mixed Modular Design Meets Free Cooling
Iceland: Where Mixed Modular Design Meets Free Cooling
May 06, 2013
The diversity of modular data center design can be seen in a single large room in Reykjavik, Iceland. That's where the Advania Thor Datacenter has added new capacity using a "modular room" assembled from pre-built components, which sits alongside...
Brocade Rolls Out Broad-Based SDN Strategy
Brocade Rolls Out Broad-Based SDN Strategy
May 02, 2013
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...
New Arista Switch Beefs Up Network Scale and Speed
New Arista Switch Beefs Up Network Scale and Speed
May 02, 2013
wITH enhancements to density, scale and speed, Arista says the 7500E is its fastest and most scalable Ethernet switch ever, and will enable cloud networks to scale to over 100,000 servers and and millions of virtual machines.
USPS Leverages Big Data To Fight Fraud
USPS Leverages Big Data To Fight Fraud
May 01, 2013
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.
BYOD is Not the Enemy: Using Consumer Tech to Manage the Data Center
BYOD is Not the Enemy: Using Consumer Tech to Manage the Data Center
May 01, 2013
The Bring Your Own Device movement of adopting consumer technology can be of great benefit for an IT organization, according to health care provider UPMC, which outlined its efforts at Data Center World.
HP Unveils Complete Software-Defined Network Fabric
Apr 30, 2013
. HP (HPQ) launched a data center network fabric built on HP FlexNetwork architecture designed to boost scalability and reduce network provisioning time from months to minutes.
Ground to cloud with PSSC Labs cloud-ready data centers
Ground to cloud with PSSC Labs cloud-ready data centers
Apr 30, 2013
The modern IT landscape has shifted towards the data center infrastructure. At the heart of the cloud, and – in reality – any organization, is the data center environment. More businesses are reliant on the functions of the core data center...
SGI Provides Massive Storage for Australian Supercomputer
SGI Provides Massive Storage for Australian Supercomputer
Apr 30, 2013
SGI announced that iVEC and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) have selected SGI to provide the massive data management infrastructure at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre.
What is a FLOP?
Apr 29, 2013
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...
Data Center People: New CEO for Extreme Networks
Apr 29, 2013
Extreme Networks appoints Charles Berger as its President and CEO, Violin Memory adds Stephen Dalton as VP of software and Herb Schneider as VP of hardware.
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