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TI, Nimbix Deliver Accelerated Compute Cloud

Dec 05, 2012 | Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) and Nimbix announced their collaboration on Nimbix's Accelerated Compute Cloud (NACC) to significantly reduce power and accelerate workflows.
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Ethernet Alliance Execs Outline Networking Roadmap

Dec 05, 2012 | The Ethernet Alliance announced Chairman, John D’Ambrosia of Dell, and Marketing Committee Chair, Chauncey Schwartz of QLogic, will be featured speakers at the upcoming Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA ’12).
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Spirent Advances SDN with Conformance Test Suite

Dec 05, 2012 | Spirent Communications announced that it has joined forces with Indiana University’s Software Defined Networking (SDN)/OpenFlow research organization, InCNTRE to develop the conformance test suites within OFTest.
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Oracle Unveils Cloud and Consolidation for SPARC SuperCluster

Dec 04, 2012 | Oracle announced software enhancements to the Oracle SPARC SuperCluster engineered system which enable customers to consolidate any combination of mission-critical enterprise databases, middleware and applications on a single system.
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Atos Reduces Carbon Footprint by 50 Percent

Dec 04, 2012 | On its journey to become a “Zero Carbon” Company, Atos has now set a new objective to reduce its Carbon Footprint by 50% by 2015 (2008 baseline).
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CA Technologies Offers Management for AWS

Dec 04, 2012 | CA Technologies announced it is offering enhanced management and governance capabilities powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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AMD Opteron 4300, 3300 Deliver for Cloud

Dec 04, 2012 | AMD unveiled nine new mid-range and entry-level AMD Opteron 4300 Series and 3300 Series server processors increasing performance per watt versus the previous generation to maximize compute capabilities in power-constrained environments.
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AWS Marketplace Announces Windows Support

Dec 04, 2012 | Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) announced that the AWS Marketplace now supports Windows-based software and other new software categories including Big Data solutions.
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ScaleIO Emerges with Elastic Converged Storage

Dec 04, 2012 | ScaleIO emerged from stealth mode and announced the release of ScaleIO ECS v1.1 scale-out storage software.
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Rutherford Appleton Named Storage Project of the Year

Dec 04, 2012 | Panasas, Inc. congratulates Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) on being named the 2012 Public Sector Storage Project of the Year at the Storage, Virtualization and Cloud Computing (SVC) Awards.
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Rackspace Enhances Open Cloud Offerings

Dec 03, 2012 | Rackspace Hosting announced new features and enhanced service offerings for open cloud platform customers.
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Savvis Composes Symphony for IT Infrastructure

Dec 03, 2012 | Savvis announced the limited release of Savvis Symphony Cloud Storage, which combines global accessibility and unlimited capacity with the reliability and protection businesses demand.
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Piston Cloud Appoints Jim Morrisroe CEO

Dec 03, 2012 | iston Cloud Computing, Inc. announced cloud computing and open source industry veteran Jim Morrisroe as its new Chief Executive Officer.
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VMware Unveils New Operations Management, Application Director

Dec 03, 2012 | VMware, Inc. announced the general availability of VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.6 and VMware vFabric Application Director 5.0.
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Riverbed Demos Data Center Transformation Solutions

Dec 03, 2012 | At Gartner Data Center Conference, Riverbed will demonstrate its solutions for transforming the data center, including speeding applications and data over corporate networks, and accelerating physical and cloud-based disaster recovery.
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SugarCRM Integrates with VMware vFabric

Dec 03, 2012 | SugarCRM, the customer relationship management (CRM) company that enables effective customer engagement enterprise-wide, announced a new technology integration with VMware.
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Arista Expands Network Solutions for Data Centers

Dec 03, 2012 | Arista Networks announced an addition to its 7050 Series, providing customers with another option for migrating data centers to 10GbE driven by growth in big data and virtualization.
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ManageEngine Adds Storage Monitoring to IT360

Dec 03, 2012 | ManageEngine announced immediate support for storage monitoring in IT360, its integrated IT management solution.
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Minister Launches Cloud Computing Centre at DCU

Nov 30, 2012 | Minister for Enterprise and Jobs, Richard Bruton TD, has launched the new Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce (IC4) - a new government-funded technology centre in Dublin City University to drive cloud computing.
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NetApp Supports Amazon Web Services Direct Connect with Private Storage Solution

Nov 29, 2012 | Solution provides performance, agility, and control of NetApp private storage with all the benefits of the AWS Cloud.
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Infinitely Virtual Selects VMTurbo for Performance

Nov 29, 2012 | VMTurbo announced that Infinitely Virtual, a provider of virtual server cloud computing services, selected VMTurbo Operations Manager as its operations management solution.
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Eight Startups Launch at AWS re: Invent

Nov 29, 2012 | Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, today announced the eight companies who participated in the inaugural “LAUNCHED!” Live Stage at re: Invent, the first AWS global user conference.
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CA Technologies Delivers Enhanced Management for AWS

Nov 29, 2012 | CA Technologies announced it is offering enhanced management and governance capabilities powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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GE's Grid IQ Key to Develop Modern Grid

Nov 29, 2012 | Grid IQ "Solutions as a Service" (SaaS) replaces utilities' IT infrastructure requirements with cloud-based computing and helps utilities manage risks associated with long-term technology investment decisions.
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Boundary, Locaweb Safeguard Cloud in Latin America

Nov 29, 2012 | Boundary has partnered with Locaweb to give access across Latin America to Boundary's real-time cloud failure detection system, the first capable of reporting cloud outages before consumers suffer the consequences.
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SLA-Aware Scheduling and Virtual Efficiency

Researchers from the Suddhananda Engineering and Research Centre in Bhubaneswar, India developed a job scheduling system, which they call Service Level Agreement (SLA) scheduling, that is meant to achieve acceptable methods of resource provisioning similar to that of potential in-house systems. They combined that with an on-demand resource provisioner to ensure utilization optimization of virtual machines.
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CloudSigma CEO Elaborates on Science Cloud

Experimental scientific HPC applications are continually being moved to the cloud, as covered here in several capacities over the last couple of weeks. Included in that rundown, Co-founder and CEO of CloudSigma Robert Jenkins penned an article for HPC in the Cloud where he discussed the emergence of cloud technologies to supplement research capabilities of big scientific initiatives like CERN and ESA (the European Space Agency)...
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Examining Questions of Virtualization and Security in the Cloud

When considering moving excess or experimental HPC applications to a cloud environment, there will always be obstacles. Were that not the case, the cost effectiveness of cloud-based HPC would rule the high performance landscape. Jonathan Stewart Ward and Adam Barker of the University of St. Andrews produced an intriguing report on the state of cloud computing, paying a significant amount of attention to the problems facing cloud computing.
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Hacking into the N-Queens Problem with Virtualization

Jun 19, 2013 | Ruan Pethiyagoda, Cameron Boehmer, John S. Dvorak, and Tim Sze, trained at San Francisco’s Hack Reactor, an institute designed for intense fast paced learning of programming, put together a program based on the N-Queens algorithm designed by the University of Cambridge’s Martin Richards, and modified it to run in parallel across multiple machines.
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Datapipe and Verne Global's Green Cloud

Jun 17, 2013 | With that in mind, Datapipe hopes to establish themselves as a green-savvy HPC cloud provider with their recently announced Stratosphere platform. Datapipe markets Stratosphere as a green HPC cloud service and in doing so partnering with Verne Global and their Icelandic datacenter, which is known for its propensity in green computing.
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IBM's Guide to Cloud Based HPC

Jun 12, 2013 | Cloud computing is gaining ground in utilization by mid-sized institutions who are looking to expand their experimental high performance computing resources. As such, IBM released what they call Redbooks, in part to assist institutions’ movement of high performance computing applications to the cloud.
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OpenStack and the SDSC Research Cloud

Jun 06, 2013 | The San Diego Supercomputer Center launched a public cloud system for universities in the area designed specifically to run on commodity hardware with high performance solid-state drives. The center, which currently holds 5.5 PB of raw storage, is open to educational and research users in the University of California.
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Best Practices in Big Data Storage

05/10/2013 | Cleversafe, Cray, DDN, NetApp, & Panasas | From Wall Street to Hollywood, drug discovery to homeland security, companies and organizations of all sizes and stripes are coming face to face with the challenges – and opportunities – afforded by Big Data. Before anyone can utilize these extraordinary data repositories, however, they must first harness and manage their data stores, and do so utilizing technologies that underscore affordability, security, and scalability.

Exploring the Potential of Heterogeneous Computing

04/02/2012 | AMD | Developers today are just beginning to explore the potential of heterogeneous computing, but the potential for this new paradigm is huge. This brief article reviews how the technology might impact a range of application development areas, including client experiences and cloud-based data management. As platforms like OpenCL continue to evolve, the benefits of heterogeneous computing will become even more accessible. Use this quick article to jump-start your own thinking on heterogeneous computing.