Mellanox Showcases Infiniband Technology at Interop
Interconnect solutions provider Mellanox Technologies (MLNX) showcased technologies, collaborated with partners and broke records at this years Interop conference. New InfiniBand solutions Mellanox announced the expansion of its line of end-to-end FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand interconnect solutions with new 18-port, 108-port, 216-port, and 324-port non-blocking fixed and modular switches. The new SX6000 series switches support a superior scalable platform that scales as the number of nodes per
Roundup: EMC Buys XtremIO, Public Beta for HP Cloud
Here’s our review of some of this week’s noteworthy links for the data center industry: EMC acquires XtremIO. EMC announced that it has acquired privately held XtremIO. Israel-based XtremIO is a flash storage pioneer and has a scale-out, enterprise storage architecture designed to leverage the speed and unique abilities of Flash memory. XtremIO technology will complement the range of EMC Flash-based systems and software stemming from EMC’s early entry into the Flash storage
OpenStack Networking Moving Ahead
The developing cloud world is sometimes like the oft-repeated phrase in a popular commercial: “I’m not only the president, but I’m also a client.” IT infrastructure provider Internap (INAP) has been an early adopter of OpenStack, releasing a public cloud product running on the OpenStack OS as early as October 2011. As well as being a user of OpenStack, the Internap team is also contributing members of the OpenStack development community. Ken Pepple, director of cloud development
SGI Wins $27 Million Deal for Defense Supercomputer
Here’s our review of some of this week’s noteworthy links for the data center industry: SGI awarded $ 27.8 million DOD contract. SGI announced that the United States Department of Defense (DoD) has selected an SGI ICE X high performance computing (HPC) system as part of its High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) to provide compute resources for the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) DoD Supercomputing Research Center (DSRC). The contract for hardware, storage and
LinkedIn: No Real-Time Data Center Backup?
The business networking site LinkedIn announced plans yesterday for an initial public offering in which it hopes to raise at least $175 million. The company’s SEC filingcontained an interesting tidbit: LinkedIn said it currently has no real-time backup data center, meaning a failure of its primary data center would knock its LinkedIn.com site offline. “We recently implemented a disaster recovery program, which allows us to move production to a back-up data center in the event of a
SSDs vs. Disks: Which Are More Reliable?
Robin Harris is an analyst who tracks emerging IT technologies and writes about the storage sector at Storage Mojo and Storage Bits. Solid-state drives are often marketed as being more reliable than hard drives. But some evidence suggests that isn’t always true. How much more reliable than hard drives can SSD’s really be? A retailer of SSDs and hard drives published its return data last month. Some of the 1 TB hard drives were more reliable than some of the SSDs. And when you consider
Location of MySQL’s my.cnf file
MySQL's main configuration file is my.cnf and it is located in different locations depending on the operating system, distribution and version. This post is a quick reference to show where it is located on various different installations. If you have another one to add, please let me know by emailing me or adding to the comments at the end of the post. CentOS 5 / RHEL 5 For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, CentOS 5 and other derived Linux distributions: /etc/my.cnf Debian 5 Lenny For Debian 5
SingleHop Sponsors TECH cocktail’s Startup Mixology Conference
Chicago, IL: October 28, 2010: SingleHop, Inc., the fastest-growing web hosting provider in the country, announced its sponsorship of TECH cocktail’s Startup Mixology Conference, which will be held October 28 at the Lincoln Hall in Chicago. The Startup Mixology conference is a full day networking and educational event focused on encouraging, equipping, and educating startup companies, particularly those in the technology industry, through close interaction with successful entrepreneurs,
Managed Server Provider DedicatedNOW Appoints Brandon Hale as New Director of Sales
October 26, 2010 Managed dedicated server provider, DedicatedNOW announced on Monday that it has named Brandon Hale as the Company’s new Director of Sales. In his new role, Brandon will be responsible for leading the company’s Sales efforts and continuing the Company’s growth. Born in Texas, Mr. Hale brings eight years experience to DedicatedNOW. With leadership roles at some of top players in the industry, he brings extensive experience to the DedicatedNOW Sales Department. “We’re
Cloud News: Microsoft, Google, CA Tech, SAP
Here’s a roundup of this week’s headlines from the cloud computing industry: Microsoft announces Office 365.Microsoft (MSFT) announced Microsoft Office 365, the company’s next generation in cloud productivity that brings together Microsoft Office, SharePoint Online, Exchange Online and Lync Online in an always-up-to-date cloud service. A limited beta program will open in 365 countries and regions for the product. Pricing for companies with fewer than 25 employees is $6 or 5.25 Euros