Quanta Cloud Raises Server Ante with GPUs
Quanta Cloud Technology, the server and storage unit of the Taiwanese manufacturer Quanta Computer, has over the last year been targeting the high end of the enterprise datacenter market. ...Full Article
Cloud TV, Anyone?
There has been plenty of hype around the concept of smashing the old cable and satellite TV models via video streaming and other services. Just this week, word leaked ...Full Article
Google’s Roster of Cloud Interconnect Providers Grows
Google Cloud Platform has added another service provider, Global Capacity, to its list of carrier interconnect providers as the roll out of enterprise hybrid cloud architectures gathers momentum. Chicago-based ...Full Article
Startup Qumulo Bets Data Trumps Storage
A month after announcing a $40 million funding round, scale-out intelligent storage startup Qumulo Inc. has emerged from stealth mode with a "data-aware" network-attached storage offering dubbed Qumulo Core. ...Full Article
Facebook Targets Datacenter with Server SoC
Facebook used this week's Open Compute Project summit to introduce a system-on-a-chip targeting the emerging micro-server market. Code-named "Yosemite," the "server-class" SoC was developed along with Intel Corp. as ...Full Article
Startup Vapor I/O Debuts Hyper-Converged Datacenter
Startup Vapor I/O emerged from stealth mode this week with its vision of a hyper-collapsed datacenter that seeks to add intelligence to the equation by including workloads "as a ...Full Article
Dell Targets Network Bottleneck with Switch Interface
In an attempt to move software-defined networking off the drawing board and into the datacenter, Dell's networking unit is rolling out a switch interface as a standard API that ...Full Article
Red Hat Seeds Container Market With Atomic Host
Red Hat, which less then a year ago sought to back up its mantra "The app is king" by unveiling an application container initiative called "Project Atomic," has announced ...Full Article
Intel’s Rack-Scale Plan Gaining Traction
An Intel Corp. technologist speaking at a recent cloud industry event used the opportunity to mention a relatively recent approach to designing datacenter hardware: Intel's rack-scale architecture. The chipmaker ...Full Article
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