Hybrid Infrastructure Gets Composable
Growing demand for distributed applications delivered by micro- and other agile services are fueling the shift to composable and disaggregated infrastructure as enterprises look for new ways to provision ...Full Article
Facebook Datacenters Nearing Green Energy Goal
Hyperscale datacenter operators continue to strive for energy efficiency as most struggle to keep pace with more demanding workloads. Progress is being reported on at least one front: Facebook ...Full Article
VMware Buys Cloud Manager, Partners With AWS
VMware said it will acquire CloudHealth Technologies, a provider of tools for managing cloud costs and resources. Separately, VMware announced during a company event this week in Las Vegas ...Full Article
Pure Storage Acquires Cloud Backup Startup
Pure Storage has boosted its ability to manage big data migrating to the cloud with the acquisition of privately-held StorReduce. Terms of the acquisition, which closed earlier this month, ...Full Article
Dell EMC’s New Servers for Transition to the ‘Disaggregated,’ Software-Defined Data Center
Dell EMC today launched a new high-performance server line, the PowerEdge MX, that the company said sits squarely in the middle of traditional and next-generation AI-oriented workloads, supporting both ...Full Article
HPE Upgrades its Cloud Services Manager
As application containers handle more production workloads and the de facto standard orchestration tool Kubernetes is used to scale those deployments, more cloud-native applications can be “built once and ...Full Article
Intel Riding High in Data Center Market as AMD Threat Looms
In the choppy seas of public and investor opinion on which Intel currently sails, blustery and changeable winds are both besetting or boosting the company – though, to be ...Full Article
Nvidia’s Turing Architecture for Real-Time Ray Tracing
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang this week unveiled Turing, the company’s next-gen GPU platform that introduces new RT Cores to accelerate ray tracing and new Tensor Cores for AI inferencing. ...Full Article
Spectre, Meltdown Redux: Intel Chips Found Vulnerable to More Malware
A published report states that Intel chips are vulnerable to three new malware attacks with the ability to steal passwords, personal information, financial data and encryption keys. Intel has ...Full Article
‘Zero Trust’ Vendor Gains U.S. Cloud Approval
As mobile workers access more corporate data stored in the cloud, a secure network architecture called “Zero Trust” is emerging as a way of maintaining control of sensitive data ...Full Article
