This year’s Structure conference had speakers discussing the rapid adoption of the cloud by enterprises, security and privacy issues, and why they are embracing openness. Read more »
Evernote vice president of operations Alexei Rodriguez said the company decided not to go with the cloud because it is four times cheaper to maintain its own data center. But he… Read more »
Rackspace unveiled its OnMetal cloud servers at Structure today. The servers, developed from Open Compute Project hardware, come in three different configurations, each tailored to handle a specific task. Read more »
Facebook has built its own networking switch and developed a Linux-based operating systems to run it. The goal is to create networking infrastructure that mimics a server in terms of how… Read more »
Microsoft has been experimenting with its own custom chip effort in order to make its data centers more efficient, and these chips aren’t centered around ARM-based cores, but rather FPGAs from… Read more »
We spill a lot of digital ink talking about the chips that will displace Intel’s in the data center, but the chip giant isn’t ceding that ground without a fight. Read more »
The need for speed (and scale) is driving the growth of private networks owned by companies like Facebook, Google, Amazon and Microsoft. While the public internet is still larger, the private… Read more »
When it comes to cloud infrastructure, the underlying hardware and applications are only becoming more numerous and far flung. How then will concepts important to enterprise computing hold together? Read more »