Violin, Microsoft Develop All-Flash Array for Windows

Apr 22, 2014

Designed with delivering high-performance storage for Windows Storage Server Violin Memory (VMEM) announced general availability of the Windows Flash Array (WFA).

New From 3M: Boiling Liquid to Cool Your Servers

Apr 09, 2014

Will the high-density servers of the future live in blue-lit pools of boiling liquid? Making the case for a new approach to cooling, 3M this week unveiled a proof-of-concept for its immersion cooling solution.

Tiered Adaptive Storage from Cray Powers Petabytes for Research

Apr 09, 2014

With the ability to scale up to over 75 petabytes of storage the Cray Tiered Adaptive Storage (TAS) solution has been selected by the North German Supercomputing Alliance (HLRN), under a recently announced contract.

NVIDIA Targets Need for Speed With Ultra-Fast GPU Interconnect

Mar 26, 2014

At its annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in San Jose this week NVIDIA (NVDA) laid the foundation for its Pascal GPU architecture with NVLink high-speed integration, launched a GPU rendering appliance, and introduced a new Tegra K1 powered...

Actifio Secures $100 Million, Funding Values Company at $1.1 Billion

Mar 25, 2014

With 182 percent annual growth rate and over 1 Exabyte of data under management, copy data virtualization company Actifio announced it has secured an oversubscribed $100 million funding round led by Tiger Global Management, with participation from...

SGI Delivers Shared Memory System for Earth Simulator

Mar 06, 2014

SGI announced that the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) has selected a SGI UV 2000 with Intel Xeon processor E5-4600 v2 series for per and post-processing offline grid simulations for its Earth Simulator supercomputer.

A3Cube Launches, Promising Faster Networking for HPC and Big Data

Feb 25, 2014

Silicon Valley startup A3Cube emerged from stealth mode today, and is looking to introduce a dramatic shift in network architecture, built atop a "brain inspired" design for PCIe network cards.

Cisco Expands Virtualization Offerings for Service Providers

Feb 19, 2014

Highlighting its Open Network Environment (ONE) strategy, Cisco announced the expansion of its virtualization offerings for service providers with the introduction of the Cisco Evolved Services Platform (ESP).

LSI, EMC, Mellanox and Supermicro Join for Hyper-Converged VDI Appliance

Feb 17, 2014

LSI collaborates with EMC, Supermicro and Mellanox for a hyper-converged appliance supporting VMware virtual desktops, F5 and VMware collaborate on a number of efforts to provide secure access control for virtual desktop deployments, and Silver...

Fusion-io Accelerates VMware Virtualized Solutions

Feb 14, 2014

At the VMware Partner Exchange event Fusion-io (FIO) announced comprehensive updates to its full portfolio of flash-fueled virtualization solutions based on Fusion ioMemory.