After it customized servers and storage to optimize for its applications and to enable its developers to roll out new software features at lightning speeds, networking switches were the remaining component of Facebook’s infrastructure that was a “black box,” with tightly coupled vendor-designed proprietary software and hardware.
HP has used warm-water cooling to make its new Apollo 8000 more efficient – and it’s taken a straightforward engineering path to get there.
The high-performance computing (HPC) system was created for the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), which says it has achieved a PUE of 1.06, and is getting a steady supply of water at 40C for heating its buildings.
Does your organization have more applications today than even just a year ago? And are you finding that managing permissions for those applications is more difficult—far more difficult—than it used to be? Does achieving regulatory compliance seem impossible?
Analysts estimate that over the next six years 90 percent of new spending on Internet and communications technologies will be on cloud-based technology.
Matt Hurley, Juniper’s new vice president of worldwide partner marketing, said he is pumping more resources and more dollars into Juniper’s partner marketing organization, despite broader cutbacks to the company’s marketing unit.
The world is going to build more data centers. Moore’s Law and other clichés imply we’re going to get faster, cheaper and better. And I’m haunted by the season ender of “Person of Interest” and all those fears about the singularity.
Rob High, IBM Fellow and the CTO of Watson Group, is pushing the powers of its Watson technology, a technology that requires plenty of servers. The key to Watson is natural language, with the technology created by linguists to understand how human beings communicate.
