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DataSynapse Announces Federator 1.0

Nov 20, 2008 | DataSynapse | NEW YORK and LONDON, Nov. 19 -- DataSynapse, a world leader in dynamic application service management (DASM) software for the next generation datacenter, today announced the release of DataSynapse Federator.
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Firstservis to Offer Cloud Computing Solutions

Nov 20, 2008 | Firstservis Pty Ltd. | QUEENSLAND, Australia, Nov. 20 -- Firstservis, one of Australia's most cutting edge technology integrators, and 3Tera Inc., the leading innovator of cloud computing technology and utility computing services, announces 3Tera has chosen Firstservis as the first reseller and distributor of 3Tera's award-winning AppLogic cloud computing platform for Australia and New Zealand.
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Altair Integrates PBS Professional w/ HP Cluster Management Utility

Nov 19, 2008 | Altair Engineering Inc. | AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 19 -- SC08 -- Altair (booth #933) today announced that it has integrated PBS Professional, its industry-leading on-demand computing software environment for grid- and cluster-computing, with the HP Cluster Management Utility (CMU), an efficient and robust tool for the management of HPC clusters and compute farms.
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eXludus Joins HP Multi-core Optimization Program

Nov 19, 2008 | eXludus Technologies | MONTREAL, Nov. 19 -- eXludus Technologies, a leading developer of multicore system capacity management, virtualization and provisioning solutions, today announced that it has joined the HP Multi-Core Optimization Program.
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rPath Expands Multi-OS Support w/ Ubuntu, CentOS

Nov 19, 2008 | rPath | RALEIGH, N.C., Nov. 19 -- rPath today announced support for the Ubuntu and CentOS Linux operating systems as part of rBuilder and the rPath Lifecycle Management Platform. rBuilder is the category-defining build and release management system for creating virtual appliances and application images.
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AT&T Announces Super Internet Datacenter in Asia

Nov 19, 2008 | AT&T Inc. | SINGAPORE, Nov. 19 -- AT&T Inc. today announced it is opening the first super Internet Data Centre (IDC) in Asia, located in Singapore. The super IDC, an expansion of AT&T's existing facilities, will act as a regional gateway to the Internet and the AT&T network to deliver AT&T Synaptic Hosting, its next-generation utility computing services.
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Platform Announces Virtual Computing Cluster Solution

Nov 19, 2008 | Platform Computing | AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 19 -- At SC08, Platform Computing today announced the Virtual Computing Cluster, a dynamic resource management solution combining the power of Platform VMO and VMware Infrastructure.
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Online Sports Entertainment Firm Deploys I/O Virtualization

Nov 19, 2008 | Xsigo Systems Inc. | SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 19 -- Xsigo Systems, the technology leader in I/O virtualization, announced today that OPEN Sports (www.opensports.com), a rapidly growing online sports entertainment destination, has deployed the Xsigo I/O Director as the foundation of its datacenter infrastructure.
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GoGrid, ServePath Unveil 'Cloud Connect'

Nov 19, 2008 | ServePath | SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 19 -- Today ServePath, the leading Silicon Valley Managed Hosting Provider, and GoGrid, the largest Windows Server 2003/2008 and Linux Cloud Computing Infrastructure provider, released "Cloud Connect" which enables high-speed, private network connectivity between ServePath high-end dedicated servers and GoGrid Windows or Linux Cloud servers.
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CA, VMware Partner on Integrated Management

Nov 18, 2008 | CA | LAS VEGAS, Nov. 18 -- CA and VMware today announced an expansion in their long-standing relationship centered around the creation and delivery of integrated management solutions to complement the VMware virtualization platform.
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Amazon Web Services Launches Cloudfront

Nov 18, 2008 | Amazon Web Services LLC | SEATTLE, Nov. 17 -- Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc., today launched Amazon CloudFront, a self-service, pay-as-you-go Web service for content delivery. With CloudFront, developers and businesses can distribute content through a worldwide network of edge locations that provide low latency and high data transfer speeds.
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IBM to Acquire Transitive

Nov 18, 2008 | IBM Systems |
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The Bell Group Virtualizes Datacenter w/ Egenera

Nov 18, 2008 | Egenera Inc. | MARLBORO, Mass., Nov. 18 -- Egenera Inc. today announced The Bell Group (Rio Grande), one of the largest suppliers of silver and silver findings to the jewelry industry, has implemented an Egenera solution as the foundation of its datacenter virtualization strategy.
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Univa UD Releases UniCluster w/ Oracle Support

Nov 18, 2008 | Univa UD | LISLE, Ill., Nov. 18 -- Univa UD, a leading provider of HPC systems software, announced today availability of UniCluster with Oracle Unbreakable Linux support. The combined solution simplifies development, delivery, and maintenance of Intel Cluster Ready certified clusters.
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Pangea Foundation Leverages Rackspace Cloud Sites

Nov 17, 2008 | Rackspace Hosting | SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Nov. 17 -- Rackspace Hosting’s cloud division, Mosso, today announced that Pangea Foundation, an innovative non-profit SaaS provider that delivers enterprise-class software solutions to non-profit organizations, is using Cloud Sites to provide hosted services to a growing number of its 1,500 non-profit customers.
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Savvis Expands Low-Latency Connectivity Offerings

Nov 17, 2008 | Savvis Inc. | NEW YORK, Nov. 17 -- Building on its position as a leading provider of low latency IT infrastructure services for financial markets, Savvis Inc. today announced new connectivity options with major financial exchanges, electronic communications networks (ECNs) and liquidity venues spanning the U.S., Europe and Asia.
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Altair Steps Up Control in PBS Professional 10

Nov 17, 2008 | Altair Engineering Inc. | TROY, Mich., Nov. 17 -- Altair today unveiled PBS Professional 10, the industry-leading on-demand computing software environment for grid- and cluster-computing, delivering customers improved performance, greater administrator control and reduced power costs.
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Microsoft Expands Virtualization Initiatives With HP

Nov 17, 2008 | Microsoft Corp. | REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 17 -- Microsoft Corp. today announced expanded product, sales and services initiatives with HP aimed at helping businesses more easily adopt and deploy virtualization to help lower information technology (IT) costs and make IT more efficient. Microsoft has expanded its work together with HP to sell and market storage, server and networking consolidation solutions and desktop virtualization solutions to small-, medium-sized- and large-business customers worldwide.
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CA Tackles Cloud, Virtualization Management

Nov 17, 2008 | CA Inc. | LAS VEGAS, Nov. 17 -- CA Inc. today announced an integrated suite of enterprise IT management (EITM) solutions designed to maximize the business value of virtualization, helping enterprise customers and cloud computing providers improve IT agility and service quality, increase efficiency, and mitigate IT and business risk.
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Marvell Unveils High-Performance Ethernet Switch Family

Nov 17, 2008 | Marvell | SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 17 -- Marvell, a leader in storage, communications, and consumer silicon solutions, today introduced the Marvell Prestera CX family of high-performance 40GbE and 100GbE switches, which builds on the proven strengths of the Prestera architecture.
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Sun Realigns Around Growth Areas; Will Cut 5-6K Jobs

Nov 14, 2008 | Sun Microsystems Inc. | SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 14 -- Sun Microsystems Inc. today announced a series of changes designed to align its cost model with the global economic climate and accelerate the introduction of compelling open source innovations. As part of this effort, Sun is announcing a global workforce reduction and alignment of its software organization into new business groups.
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BNP Paribas Automates Back Office w/ TIBCO BPM

Nov 14, 2008 | TIBCO Software Inc. | PARIS, Nov. 13 -- TIBCO Software Inc. today announced that the French Retail Banking division of BNP Paribas (FRB), has selected TIBCO's business process management (BPM) solutions to help automate its back office processes.
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AMD Quad-Cores Widely Available

Nov 13, 2008 | AMD | SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 13 -- AMD today announced widespread availability of its 45nm Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor, delivering up to 35 percent more performance with up to a 35 percent decrease in power consumption at idle.
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Napera Integrates Firewall, VPN

Nov 13, 2008 | Napera Networks | SEATTLE, Nov. 13 -- Napera Networks today announced it has integrated additional security functions into the Napera N24 network access control solution, removing the need to deploy multiple security appliances.
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iQstor Unveiling Highest-Density Full-Function Storage Array

Nov 13, 2008 | iQstor Networks Inc. | NEWBURY PARK, Calif., Nov. 13 -- iQstor Networks Inc., a leading developer of intelligent and integrated storage area network (SAN) solutions, today announced that it will introduce its next-generation iQ5200 high-density front loading storage array to the public at Supercomputing ‘08, the premier international conference of high performance computing, networking analysis and storage, Nov. 17-20 in Austin, Texas.
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Avoiding Scientific Computing Bottlenecks in the Cloud

Frank Ding, engineering analysis & technical computing manager at Simpson Strong-Tie, discussed the advantages of utilizing the cloud for occasional scientific computing, identified the obstacles to doing so, and proposed workarounds to some of those obstacles.
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Overcoming the Cloud Security Barrier for Financial Services

The private industry least likely to adopt public cloud services for data storage are financial institutions. Holding the most sensitive and heavily-regulated of data types, personal financial information, banks and similar institutions are mostly moving towards private cloud services – and doing so at great cost.
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Research Roundup: Toward a More Efficient Cloud

In this week's hand-picked assortment, researchers explore the path to more energy-efficient cloud datacenters, investigate new frameworks and runtime environments that are compatible with Windows Azure, and design a unified programming model for diverse data-intensive cloud computing paradigms.
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Running Computational Fluid Dynamics in the Cloud

May 16, 2013 | When it comes to cloud, long distances mean unacceptably high latencies. Researchers from the University of Bonn in Germany examined those latency issues of doing CFD modeling in the cloud by utilizing a common CFD and its utilization in HPC instance types including both CPU and GPU cores of Amazon EC2.
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In Support of Cloud-based Rendering

May 10, 2013 | Australian visual effects company, Animal Logic, is considering a move to the public cloud.
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Internet2 Awards Program Seeks Innovative Applications

May 10, 2013 | Program provides cash awards up to $10,000 for the best open-source end-user applications deployed on 100G network.
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HPC and the True Cost of Cloud

May 08, 2013 | For engineers looking to leverage high-performance computing, the accessibility of a cloud-based approach is a powerful draw, but there are costs that may not be readily apparent.
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Exploring the Potential of Heterogeneous Computing

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