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Amazon Web Services Adds Supercomputing Service to Its Cloud

The new instance has 16 cores and 60.5GB of RAM, and is priced at $2.40 per hour Full Story »
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IBM Buying Cluster Company Platform Computing

Platform will provide job scheduling and other cloud-management tools to IBM

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Japan Takes Back First Place on Top 500 Supercomputer List

A Japanese computer has taken first place on the Top 500 supercomputer list, ending China's reign at the top after just six months. At 8.16 petaflops (quadrillion floating-point calculations per second), the K computer is more powerful than the next five systems combined.

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IBM Brings High-Performance Computing to the Cloud

IBM hopes to help companies more efficiently use their high-performance computing resources with new software that links separate pools of resources into a single private cloud.

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IBM Watson Vanquishes Human Jeopardy Foes

IBM's Watson computer has finished a three-night run against human contestants on the Jeopardy game show

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IBM's Jeopardy Strategy: Divide and Conquer

IBM plans to use its Power7 systems for its appearance on the quiz show.

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IBM to Build 3 Petaflop Supercomputer for Germany

On behalf of the Bavarian Academy of Science, IBM will build what may be the world's most powerful supercomputer.

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IBM to Build 3 Petaflop Supercomputer for Germany

On behalf of the Bavarian Academy of Science, IBM will build what may be the world's most powerful supercomputer.

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IBM to Build 3 Petaflop Supercomputer for Germany

On behalf of the Bavarian Academy of Science, IBM will build what may be the world's most powerful supercomputer.

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IBM to Build 3 Petaflop Supercomputer for Germany

On behalf of the Bavarian Academy of Science, IBM will build what may be the world's most powerful supercomputer.

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Supercomputing Top500 Brews Discontent

IBM, Intel, others question the usefulness of the Top500 key metric, the Linpack test

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Voltaire Ups Ante in InfiniBand/Ethernet Duel

The next generation InfiniBand FDR standard competes with Ethernet for conveying high-throughput, low-latency traffic

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China Rocks Top 500 Supercomputer List

For the first time, a Chinese supercomputer has topped the twice-annual ranking of the world's fastest supercomputers

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Lustre Settles Into Post-Oracle Life

A start-up picks up where Oracle leaves off the support for the Lustre file system

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Purdue App Slows Servers When Cooling Fails

An administrator from Purdue University has developed software that can slow servers when the AC goes out

 
Images captured from conventional surveillance systems are often very poor. But recent advances in digital imaging technology, computers, and networking hardware make it possible to usher in a new level of performance. With a system that leverages the latest technologies and that is designed from end-to-end with the goal of capturing and preserving image quality, the Avigilon High Definition Surveillance System achieves unmatched performance.
Everybody's heard the cliché, "the network is your business." But that's not going to help you choose the best wide area networking service to meet your diverse needs
Learn how your answer to this question compares to your peers by taking this quick poll. See how your peers are dealing with the challenge of ensuring a highly capable server infrastructure as technological shifts impact the application server platform.
With increasing data growth, comes increased need for data security.  The existing DLP model, with a focus on compliance/enforcement is not sufficient as the data discovery and classification capabilities are not granular enough.  Read this paper to find how you can efficiently and accurately manage your risk by rapidly inventorying and classifying your data and then developing remediation workflows that support business needs. 
This paper breaks down attack sources into four categories: external, malicious insiders, accidental insiders, and unknown.
The rapid growth of data and technology is creating challenges for organizations as this digital data is considered to be business communications and must be preserved according the same industry-specific regulations governing the retention and discovery of emails and more traditional forms of electronic communications. This paper examines the role that Data Loss Prevention ("DLP") technology can play in helping organizations address the challenges of locating information in response to electronic discovery.
As greater numbers of datacenter servers transition from the physical to the virtual world, the components of virtualization success come to the fore. What scores of organizations have discovered is that success is derived from an optimal pairing of the right software platform with the right hardware platform.
Have you been looking to hear about customer's experiences with the new VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager product? View this webcast to learn about VMware customer, Navicure, and their experiences testing and evaluating the recovery manager, their progress in implementing it in their environment and their advice other customers considering using vCenter.
Many enterprises have discovered that the use of virtualization to support desktop workloads creates a range of significant benefits. These benefits include price efficiencies, improved IT management and greater agility and choice for end users.

This VMware sponsored webcast with IDC will provide both quantitative measurement of the business value -- defined as the expected ROI -- and qualitative analysis associated with the use of VMware View™. IDC will also provide an analysis of the View Composer and ThinApp™ features of VMware View, including the business value of these solutions and an overview of how they work.

Attend this webcast to learn about:
- Challenges and barriers that might impede the adoption of desktop virtualization
- Navigating roadblocks to facilitate a strategic implementation
- Optimizing qualitative and quantitative benefits to IT and your business
VMware recently announced VMware vFabric™ Data Director, a new database deployment and operations platform that enables enterprise IT organizations to offer database as a private cloud service. Built on top of VMware vSphere 5, vFabric Data Director enables IT organizations to ontrol database sprawl through automation and consistent policy enforcement and accelerate application development cycles with self-service database management. Attend this webcast to learn how vFabric Data Director can help you build database-as-a-service in your datacenter.
A simple, cost-effective disaster-recovery solution for virtual environments is high on the agenda for IT organizations as they virtualize more business-critical applications with VMware. VMware vCenter™ Site Recovery Manager-the market-leading disaster-recovery product-ensures the simplest and most reliable disaster protection for all virtualized applications. VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager provides centralized management of recovery plans, enables nondisruptive testing and automates site-failover processes.
Traditional disaster recovery solutions are often too expensive, complex and unreliable to meet business requirements. As a result, IT departments are hesitant to expand disaster protection beyond their most critical applications, largely because they are uncertain whether the quality of the protection is really worth its cost. VMware vCenter™ Site Recovery Manager 5 is the market-leading disaster recovery product that addresses this situation for organizations of all kinds. It complements VMware vSphere to ensure the simplest and most reliable disaster protection for all virtualized applications.
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