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As costs drop and use cases multiply, high performance computing is attracting new adopters of all types and sizes. Expanding options include supercomputer-based HPC systems, cluster-based HPC, and cloud HPC services.
The creator of the Internet now looks to speed it up by unclogging network bottlenecks.
Hybrid cloud training can help enterprise IT professionals who are trying to optimize private and public cloud resources.
The CPU maker is making a big push into memory, giving it competitive advantages over its rivals.
IBM adds Red Hat OpenShift support to its blockchain platform and is bringing a Kubernetes Operator for Apache CouchDB into its hybrid cloud service
Cloud and colocation sites will account for half of all data center equipment in just five years, according to 451 Research.
Cisco says vulnerabilities in IOS/IOS XE could cause DOS situation; warns on Traceroute setting
IoT deployments are fueling investments in edge computing infrastructure, including edge gateways and hyperconverged infrastructure.
Upcoming 5G millimeter wave frequencies are being bandied as a good, solid network for IoT. But some say they may be too elaborate. A stripped-down version of millimeter wave technology may be the solution.
As more data moves through the network, efforts to keep up are lagging due to leadership and technology issues.
New fail-in-place technology in Samsung's SSDs will allow the chips to gracefully recover from chip failure.
Decommissioning a data center is lot more complicated than shutting down servers and switches. Here’s what you should keep in mind.
OneWeb and SpaceX advance with their low-latency, satellite service offerings. Test results show promise, and service is expected by 2020.
Cisco’s ACI Anywhere gives customers the flexibility to run and control applications anywhere they want across private or public clouds
Oracle sticks with Intel in its big new database server and plans a massive data center expansion.
Apple and Cisco have been developing IT networking software since the companies partnered 2015 with an eye toward optimizing Cisco networks for iOS devices
Once again Microsoft shows it has shed its not-invented here attitude to support customers.
Dell EMC's new PowerMax enterprise storage systems add support for Intel Optane drives and NVMe over Fabric.
For 6G wireless to become a reality, it must overcome a few technical hurdles, such as connecting terahertz spectrum to hard, optical transmission lines. Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology say they have solved the problem.
IBM has rolled out a new mainframe – the z15 – that bolsters the speed and power of the Big Iron and promises to integrate hybrid cloud, data privacy and security controls.
Cisco brings 64G, Ansible and analytics support to MDS SAN family
Tests show the AMD Epyc processors performed almost 25% better, and at one quarter the price
HPE plans to incorporate segmentation, artificial intelligence and automation into its wired and wireless gear in order to deal with the increased network challenges imposed by IoT and SD-WAN.
USB4 could be a unifying interface that eliminates bulky cables and oversized plugs and provides throughput that satisfies everyone laptop users to server administrators.
A polymer and aluminum film solar shelter that transmits heat into space without using electricity could drastically cut data center cooling costs.
The vulnerability impacts three generations of Supermicro motherboards. Fortunately, a fix is already available.
Predictive analytics can reveal lurking network problems before they impact reliability or performance. Once considered a futuristic technology, predictive analytics is poised to become a mainstream network diagnostic and management tool.
HPE partners with VMware to integrate GreenLake and HPE’s Synergy composable infrastructure with VMware Cloud Foundation, offering an integrated cloud infrastructure.
Intel started shipping its 10nm Agilex FPGAs to early-access customers. It features a high-speed interconnect for IoT and networking use cases.
Researchers at MIT have developed an artificial intelligence-powered system based on reinforcement learning that could revolutionize data center operations.
VMware is teaming up with Dell/EMC to offer a hardware/software package rolled up into a managed SD-WAN service.
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At VMworld, VMware says its NSX networking software looks to help customers boost performance, management of virtualized cloud resources.
VMware expanded its hybrid-cloud offerings with AWS and delivered one with Dell/EMC, and continues to expand its own cloud portfolio with announcements at VMworld.
VMware rolls out Tanzu platform to help customer build, run and manage Kubernetes containers
Mellanox unveiled two processors designed to offload network workloads from the CPU -- ConnectX-6 Dx and BlueField-2 – freeing the CPU to do its processing job.
VMware will spend $2.7 billion on cloud-application developer Pivotal and $2.1 billion for security vendor Carbon Black - details at next week's VMworld user conference
Cisco finds critical bugs in its Unified communications Director and Director Express software for Big Data packages as well as its Small Business 220 Series Smart Switches.
Big Switch joins Cisco, VMware, Juniper and others in simplifying data center, hybrid-cloud integration
How four enterprises solved problems with their backup and restore processes
Collecting telemetry data from operational networks and passing it to information networks for analysis has its benefits. But this convergence presents big cultural and technology challenges.
Blue energy, created by mixing seawater and fresh water, could be the perfect solution for providing cheap and eco-friendly power to edge data centers.
Extreme has bought cloud, SD-WAN and data center technologies that make it more prepared to take on its toughest competitors.
As the demand for natural language processing grows for chatbots and AI-powered interactions, more companies will need systems that can provide it. Nvidia says its platform can handle it.
With the release of its second generation of Epyc processors, the Epyc 7002 series, AMD finds it has a lot of new friends -- companies that want to use their technology.
Xilinx says its new FPGA card, the Alveo U50, can match the performance of a GPU in areas of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning.
When weighing the choice between DIY and a managed service for SD-WAN, consider current WAN conditions, IT skill levels, geographic scope of the WAN, and how much control you’re willing to relinquish.
The multiyear agreement will combine Lenovo hardware and liquid cooling technology with Intel chips and software.
