Private equity firm EQT VI has agreed to acquire IT automation specialist UC4 from The Carlyle Group, the companies said today. EQT is the leading private equity group in Northern Europe.
JPMorgan Chase spends $500 million to build a data center, according to CEO Jamie Dimon. That figure places the firm's facilities among the most expensive in the industry, on a par with investments by Google and Microsoft in their largest data...
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.
When you think of applications that are bound for the cloud, high-speed financial trading is probably not one that immediately comes to mind. But there's actually quite a lot happening on this front.
Facebook has been building some of the world's most efficient data centers. But its leased space accounts for 85 percent of its data center energy use, and will continue to have a big impact on its carbon footprint for several more years.
Cloud news from this week: eBay is running Nicira’s Network Virtualization Platform (NVP) in a production OpenStack environment; CA was selected by ScaleMatrix; and EPAM Systems picks Nimbula Director to run its cloud.
Fusion-io (FIO) announced its new ION Data Accelerator software that boosts the performance of applications that need access to shared data while enhancing existing enterprise storage infrastructure. Fusion-io said ION can enhance storage area...
Through maintaining maximum data center availability, data center operators can avoid the significant costs associated with dysfunction and outages. Data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software is rolling in to many data center stratgies...
