AOL runs about 60,000 servers, Manos said, which are spread across five primary data centers in North America and Europe. "We're talking about dramatically reforming what was one of the world's largest Internet companies," said Manos
NCSA and Cray announced that they have finalized a contract with the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) to provide the supercomputer for the National Science Foundation's Blue Waters project.
Japan's K Computer defended its number one spot in the new Top 500 ranking of the world's most powerful supercomputer, increasing from 8.162 petaflops to 10.51 petaflops per second.
As Sweden celebrates the recent announcement that a new Facebook data center will be built in Lulea, one of the country's data center visionaries was outlining an alternative vision in which Sweden's cool climate embraces cool modular design.
Green Revolution Cooling says it has adapted its liquid immersion cooling system to recapture server heat, using it to heat water for climate control systems in nearby buildings.
WAN optimization systems provider Infineta has announced the availability of its Data Migration Accelerator (DMA), a pay-as-you-go WAN optimization service built around the company’s Data Mobility Switch solution. The service accelerates traffic...
Data Direct Networks introduces Big Data appliances, Virident introduces high performance Flash memory, Intel (INTC) and Ciena (CIEN) plan to update HPC offerings at SC11.
VCE teams with SAP, Juniper selected by WI-Manx, Alcatel-Lucent and China Unicom partner, Mexico's Alestra uses VBlock platform.
IO selected to support large health-care data center, Equinix opens second IBX data center in Hong Kong, CloudSigma launches SSD in public IaaS cloud.