Archive for July, 2012
HP further extends the possibilities with 3PAR and solid state
HP.com PALO ALTO, Calif. — HP today announced an all-solid state drive (SSD) configuration for HP 3PAR P10000 Storage to improve organizations’ application performance while reducing operational costs and IT complexity. Organizations with massive cloud and virtualized environments are turning to SSDs to address application performance gaps and improve infrastructure efficiency. However, integrating SSDs in [...]
Oracle buys Xsigo
MarketWatch Oracle Corp. agreed to acquire Xsigo Systems Inc., a provider of network virtualization technology, continuing its buying spree to embrace cloud computing. Financial terms weren’t disclosed. Based in San Jose, Calif., Xsigo has more than 300 enterprise customers and its software-defined networking technology simplifies cloud infrastructure and operations. The privately held company, founded in [...]
Boston Limited to distribute its Viridis server
http://www.boston.co.uk Big data, web apps, HPC and media streaming to benefit from technology that consumes less than 1/10th the power of conventional servers Boston Limited, the leading manufacturer of high performance, low-powered server, storage and clustered solutions, has begun manufacturing and worldwide distribution of its innovative Viridis server, based on Calxeda EnergyCore™ SoC (System on a Chip) [...]
VMware agrees to acquire Nicira
Marketwire PALO ALTO, CA–(Marketwire – Jul 23, 2012) – VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Nicira, Inc., a pioneer in software-defined networking (SDN) and a leader in network virtualization for open source initiatives. “VMware has led the server virtualization [...]
GreenBytes gets new Chairman of the Board of Directors
http://www.getgreenbytes.com Ashaway, R.I. and London, UK – July 23, 2012 – GreenBytes®, Inc., a developer of high-performance virtualization optimization solutions, today announced that Steve O’Donnell has been named Chairman of the GreenBytes Board of Directors. O’Donnell brings over three decades of global high technology experience to GreenBytes where he plans to work closely with the [...]
HP Networking built on scalable open standards
http://www.hp.com DUBLIN, Ireland, 18 July, 2012 – HP today announced that MICROS-Fidelio has selected a resilient networking solution based on HP FlexNetwork architecture to support its business-critical applications. As part of an HP Converged Infrastructure, the new network will enable MICROS-Fidelio to boost IT functionality and reliability whilst driving down costs. MICROS-Fidelio provides integrated business [...]
Thursday – this means it’s server of the week
I first started this last week, you can read about it here. So our server of the week, the one I’ve been reading about is the Cisco UCS C240 M3: The Cisco UCS C240 M3 is their 2 socket, 2u rack server based on the Intel Xeon E5-2600 processors which builds upon Cisco UCS and [...]
Dell’s Tactical Mobile Data Center announced
BUSINESS WIRE ROUND ROCK, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dell announced today the launch of its Tactical Mobile Data Center, an air deployable and wholly customizable data center solution designed to empower government and military operations anytime, anywhere. The solution will allow customers to quickly deploy a powerful and flexible IT infrastructure anywhere in the globe to power operations [...]
ARM powered OpenStack Cloud
Business Wire PORTLAND, Ore.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today several OpenStack® community members announced their collaboration to build the first ARM® technology-powered OpenStack cloud as a zone in TryStack, the free sandbox for exploring and testing OpenStack. Solutions based on the ARM architecture show great promise for cloud computing due to their ability to deploy and manage scale-out workloads [...]
PC sales continue through 2012
www.idc.com LONDON, July 19, 2012 — The PC market in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) continued to benefit from an easier year-on-year comparison, and maintained positive growth as expected in the second quarter of 2012 (2Q12), even outpacing a 5.6% forecast, with overall PC shipments increasing 9.1% from a sell-in standpoint compared with [...]
