SeaMicro’s back. Four months after it pushed out its revolutionary low-power 64-bit Atom server it’s filled the provocative empty space in the middle of the thing’s five-by-11-inch motherboard to make the dingus denser. The brand new SM10000-64HD – the start-up suffers from the same unimaginative naming conventions as Intel – stuffs 384 dual-core 1.66GHz Atom [...]
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SeaMicro Fields ‘World’s Most Energy-Efficient 64-bit x86 Server’ Google Waves Small White Flag Spooks Get Their Own Cloud Acer Seeks Refuge in the Cloud Dell To Buy Force10 Adobe Sued After Buying EchoSign Google Seeks Nortel Replacement Apple: Blowout Writ Large Cisco To Cut 6,500 Jobs Microsoft Profits Up 30% No Thanks to Windows ITC [...]
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Citrix has gone and bought Cloud.com. It didn’t say what it paid for the open source EC2-aping cloud start-up but TechCrunch puts the number at somewhere between $200 million and $250 million. The three-year-old start-up’s funding from Redpoint Ventures, Nexus Capital and Index Ventures came to an estimated $28.7 million. Scratching its head TechCrunch wonders [...]
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Yahoo, which needs to turn a buck as well as focus on its own issues, is spinning out its Hadoop unit into an independent new company co-funded by Benchmark Capital called Hortonworks after the Dr. Seuss character Horton the Elephant. It’s a nice whimsical touch considering Hadoop is really a stuffed elephant who had his [...]
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Scott McNealy, often mistaken for one of Sun’s founders – technically he wasn’t but he was so identified with the company for so long people assume he was – has been hinting about a new start-up called WayIn on Twitter, according to GigaOm. Actually Twitter’s the way WayIn will launch if it sorta hasn’t already. [...]
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Advertised as an integration platform for the cloud, web and enterprise, MuleSoft has rolled out a public beta of Mule iON, a cloud-based iPaaS or newfangled Integration Platform-as-a-Service. It’s supposed to be the world’s first iPaaS for integrating and orchestrating cloud-ified SaaS applications with on-premise systems and it’s built on Mule’s applications, services and data [...]
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Novell’s acquisition by Attachmate, which hung on the $450 million purchase of around 882 of its patents and patent applications by the Microsoft-led CPTN consortium, can go through now that regulators on both sides of the pond figure they’ve tied CPTN’s hands. The Justice Department confirmed Wednesday morning that CPTN, which includes Oracle, EMC and [...]
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Clouds bring rain and rain means rust and so Iron Mountain, the seemingly promising cloud storage house – under pressure from a major stockholder after a nasty $54 million loss last year followed the company’s giddy $221 million gain in 2009- says it will be exiting commodity cloud storage by early 2013. It stopped taking [...]
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Facebook has been quietly working on building an energy-efficient data center at the lowest possible cost for a year or two and Thursday it open sourced the infrastructure it created under what it calls the Open Compute Project, figuring that many eyes might improve on it. “We are not the only ones who need the [...]
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Amazon Web Services has started selling single-tenant instances that run on dedicated hardware inside an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). The classic definition of a cloud is multiple virtual machines on a server used by multiple tenants sharing the cost, but that definition doesn’t suit everybody’s security or governance needs so Amazon changed the definition. [...]
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