SeaMicro, the ambitious start-up that has been building so-called microservers out of low-power Intel Atom chips, has started building microservers out of low-voltage quad-core Intel Xeon chips using the same architecture its Atom systems use. The development is called the SeaMicro SM10000-XE. Needless to say, it’s the first fabric-based Xeon microserver ever made. It’s also [...]
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Microsoft’s New Cloudware Could Cast a Shadow over VMware AWS Offers Free Windows Instances Piston Delivers First OpenStack-Based Cloud OS AWS Fields DynamoDB Yang Quits Yahoo RIM Supposedly Up for Sale; Samsung Touted as Possible Buyer Apple Sues Samsung Again Ex-US CIO Joins Salesforce.com Flexiant Positioning for Growth HP Gets New Chief Strategist AppDynamics Gets [...]
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Egnyte wants you to bury your file servers – their day is over – and now it claims you can throw your FTP servers into the hole too like they were grave goods to be discovered and wondered over by some next-century archeologist. In their place Egnyte (given the silly way we spell things you’re [...]
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After casting a pall on the future of Flash by canceling any further development of Flash on mobile devices last week, Abode has abandoned its Flash-based Flex application SDK to the tender mercies of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), reinforcing the idea that Flash is ultimately toast, burned by rival HTML 5, a posthumous victory [...]
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After wrestling with the problem for three years, ARM has completely defined the 64-bit architecture that’s going to make Intel sweat. Intel hasn’t been able to break ARM’s deadly grip on the lucrative low-power mobile market. Conversely lack of a 64-bit chip has kept ARM out of desktops and servers although HP said Tuesday that [...]
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Comparing itself to kryptonite, Violin Memory thinks it’s got the stuff in hand to put an end to classic mechanical storage arrays in the data center. The disk arrays would be replaced by Violin’s built-from-the-ground-up 6000 Series NAND flash Memory Arrays, which it calls the industry’s first all-silicon storage systems. They’re supposed to have the [...]
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Eucalyptus, the butt of some impudent sass since OpenStack got started last year, says it’s got something other cloud peddlers, open source and otherwise, don’t have, and that’s high availability. So there! The breakthrough makes it the first on-premise IaaS cloud software to deliver enterprise-grade high availability, which should bring in more users since it [...]
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Hotlink Corporation emerged from two-and-a-half-years underground the other day clutching a check for $10 million from a couple of VCs in one hand and a “super-hypervisor” in the other. The start-up’s got a way to make VMware’s vCenter manager natively support Microsoft’s Hyper-V, Citrix’s XenServer and Red Hat’s KVM hypervisors all at the same time [...]
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CumuLogic, the latest Java Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) start-up, sent its widgetry out into public beta the other day hoping enterprises, cloud providers and ISVs use it to build and manage Java apps in public, private and hybrid cloud environments. It’s after the mid-sized and large enterprises, where Java lives, that want to develop and deploy Java [...]
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Some of the NASA boys mean to get a piece of this promising OpenStack action that they helped create at NASA on the taxpayers’ dime. Former NASA CTO Chris Kemp has started a company called Nebula after his NASA project that will field a customized turnkey OpenStack hardware appliance that’s supposed let businesses – and [...]
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