Hardware

Still little change among top 10 systems on Top500 list

HPC perfect storm includes an explosion of data and hitting a price point that aligns with traditional IT.

Shifting business focus from PaaS to app development lifecycle, Docker support is crucial for vendor

Says goal is to help existing VMware install base embrace containers

Seeking to avert industry fragmentation, vendors create Open Container Project under Linux Foundation

As it replaces complex appliances with commodity hardware and software, the telco plans to make some of its own innovation public

In recognition of rising use of OpenStack, analytics and automation provider Cirba added support for Kernel-based virtual machine (KVM) hypervisor on which the framework was first built.

In addition to VMware and Hyper-V, enterprises also want to be able to monitor open source XenServer and Xen Project hypervisors that have been embraced by many cloud service providers

A largely ignored floppy disk controller in some of the most popular virtualization software could allow a hacker to take control of the data center.

System using latest-generation Xeon Phi chips, silicon photonics, and other latest Cray and Intel HPC innovations promises to deliver 180 petaflops