Rackspace is now an official member of the OpenPower Foundation, the IBM-created organization whose job is to help oversee IBM’s open-source chips; these chips are posed to give Intel’s x86 chips… Read more »
While many tech enthusiasts may still be reeling from last week’s wave of Amazon-related cloud announcements, this week showed that Amazon isn’t the only company making big cloud news. Read more »
Qualcomm is moving beyond mobile chips and will target the data center market with new server-chips, according to Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf. Mollenkopf detailed the mobile chip-maker’s plans during its annual… Read more »
On Thursday, during AWS re:Invent 2014 conference in Las Vegas, Intel announced an exclusive Haswell processor designed specifically for Amazon. The Seattle giant said the new processors power its new EC2… Read more »
The new OpenPower Foundation sanctioned Power S824L server comes loaded with IBM’s POWER8 processor and Nvidia’s GPU accelerator and will be aimed at the webscale crowd. Read more »
The new tech that uses a 64-bit ARM-based system-on-chip (SoC) can supposedly perform network function virtualization (NFV) techniques like virtualizing a network gateway and a serving gateway. Read more »
Companies like Cisco, Juniper Networks and Nokia Networks along with the Linux Foundation are hoping that the Open Platform for NFV Project will develop a standard for NFV, a network architecture… Read more »
Intel’s new E5 v3 family of processors comes loaded with 18 cores per socket, DDR4 memory and software that can help orchestrate the allocation of resources in a data center. Read more »
Coming off of last month’s announcement at Structure of a new customizable chip loaded with a FPGA, Intel has shipped off a version of its Xeon E7 x2 processor that links… Read more »