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.
Category Archives: FSG (Enterprise-Wide)
HP’s Liquid Cooled Apollo Is Not Rocket Science by Peter Judge
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.
Active optical cables sales outside the data center to reach $1.2B by 2019 … – LightWave Online (press release)
The market for active optical cables (AOCs) for non- data center applications will reach $1.2 billion by 2019, according to a new report from market research firm Communications Industry Researchers (CIR). Non- data center applications for AOCs include …
Google Offers CoreOS On Compute Engine Cloud
Google Introduces CoreOS And Docker To Its Cloud
Using a Role-Based Approach to Permissions Management
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?
Bits Blog: The Era of Cloud Computing
Analysts estimate that over the next six years 90 percent of new spending on Internet and communications technologies will be on cloud-based technology.
New Juniper Partner Marketing Head: Marketing Cutbacks Not Impacting Partner MDFs
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.
Panduit Acquires SynapSense – A Leader in Wireless Monitoring and Cooling Optimization
DCIM and cooling solutions help Data Centers save up to 50% of cooling energy costs while providing comprehensive capacity management, that being said, Panduit has recently acquired SynapSense Corporation located in Folsom, CA specializing in thermal risk management and cooling energy savings for large enterprise, colocation, and cloud computing service providers.
The Future is Balanced (Maybe) by Doug Mohney
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.
Made in the USA?
We’ve all heard the predictions for the past several years that manufacturing will move back to the United States. Now it appears that the “crystal balls” of the industry seers were, in fact, accurate. According to a recent survey by Estrada Group titled “Where in the World”, the US is now considered the prime location […]
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