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Oracle Placing GridEngine on New Track

Sep 03, 2010 | The Sun GridEngine, now the Oracle GridEngine has been a key open source staple for several HPC users for years. As Oracle takes a closer look at the product's potential for cloud and other uses, the future of its status as open source has been put into serious question.
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Hybrid Workflow Model at Heart of Tornado Research

Sep 02, 2010 | The Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms undertook a hybrid computing project called the “Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery II” (LEAD II) with the help of the Big Red cluster and Microsoft’s Azure to better predict tornado conditions and to aid in the advancement of VORTEX2 goals.
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What CERN Can Teach Enterprises About Computing, Collaboration

Sep 02, 2010 | A new research project from the London School of Economics and HfS is examining the lessons that enterprise can learn from the collaborative, distributed CERN computing (and cultural) environment.
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Application Flexibility and the New Enterprise Architecture

Aug 31, 2010 | Application delivery strategies must be shaped with flexibility in mind as the number of platforms delivering core applications is bound to change with time. Since a greater number of devices and platforms are entering the infrastructure mix, those who do not adapt quickly face being locked into strategies that do not mesh well with new developments.
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HP Seeks to Boost Cloud Service Automation Capability

Aug 27, 2010 | Although it was lost in the chaos of the 3PAR bidding war between, HP announced news that it acquired cloud service automation firm Stratavia to bolster its cloud management offering and further its strategy in the arena.
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A Maturation Stage for Storage Virtualization

Aug 27, 2010 | Storage virtualization has been gaining momentum as it moves from concept to practice but some suggest the offerings in this realm have not matured sufficiently and require a longer maturation process before wider adoption occurs.
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GreenQloud Partners With Nimsoft to Provide Unified Monitoring for Carbon-Neutral Infrastructure-as-a-Service Offering

Sep 07, 2010 | By implementing NMS, GreenQloud will be able to combine its powerful "Green IT" value proposition with state-of-the-art cloud resource monitoring.
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University at Buffalo Applies XtremeData's dbX Data Warehousing Appliance for Navigating "Data Tsunami" Research Efforts

Sep 07, 2010 | Scientific research such as microarray data analysis, gene environmental interaction analysis, and combustion/jet engine simulations regularly create datasets from a few to more than 100 terabytes (TB) for a single experiment. dbX is the newest and most cost-effective technology for warehousing and analyzing these
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Apparent Networks Unveils Application-Specific Remote Performance Management Solution

Sep 07, 2010 | AppView shows the detailed relationship between the application and the network, and the impact they are having on each other in both remote and local sites.
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Financial Trading Solution Provider Deploys Low Latency Solution for Global Clients' Trading Applications

Sep 07, 2010 | Atrium Network's new network provides an ultra low-latency, high-performance platform for a wide range of trading and market data applications, plus Extranet access for its global clients
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Network Agility and Demand for Increased Productivity Are Driving the Need for IT Consolidation in EMEA

Sep 07, 2010 | Research shows that legacy network architectures are impeding business performance and the need for a unified network has never been greater
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Zeus Enables Cloud Balancing and Bursting via New Application Delivery Platform

Sep 07, 2010 | The newly released Zeus Elastic Application Delivery platform enables enterprises to deliver fast, secure and available applications across any combination of physical, virtual and cloud IT infrastructures
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Cloud Computing: Improving Enterprise IT Efficiency and Agility

Cloud computing may be considered a new phenomenon in IT, but, in many ways, it is an evolution propelled by new IT delivery models and enabling technologies. Initially, driven by cost concerns, enterprises turned to collocation as a more efficient IT delivery model. The next logical step, managed hosting, allowed enterprises to leverage the management expertise – and efficiencies – of service providers.
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Inching Closer to a New Era for Interoperability Standards

Interoperability remains a critical issue for groups advocating that users and vendors alike require a healthy, open ecosystem to drive greater adoption rates but the standardization for portability has been slow in coming. Groups like the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) are working together with other standards bodies to create a better cloud as the organization's president discusses during an interview following news of OVF standardization--a first step for workload portability standards.
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On Par for 2 Billion: 3PAR Discusses Cloud Strategy

Storage vendor 3PAR has been at the heart of an intense bidding war between HP and Dell due to its unique refinements and developments in virtualized storage platform concepts. Thin provisioning and a focus on the needs of large-scale enterprises and cloud providers have catapulted the company into the public eye but as 3PAR's Craig Nunes discusses with HPC in the Cloud, the cloud strategy has been consistent since 1999--even if the world is just taking notice now.
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