Amazon brings hefty HPC gear to Irish datacentre
Amazon has given European businesses that deal with complex datasets a boost by bringing its largest HPC instance to its Irish datacentre.The Cluster Compute Eight Extra Large (cc2.
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Jack Clark
Currently a reporter for ZDNet UK, I previously worked as a technology researcher and reporter for a London-based news agency.
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Intel names Centerton successor: Avoton
The successor to Intel's low-power Atom-based Centerton processor will be named Avoton.The codename will be revealed publicly on Wednesday, said Jason Waxman, head of cloud infrastructure for Intel.
Intel: Home-grown chip strategy could make China miss out
Intel has said China's attempts to develop its own processor technologies could mean it cuts itself off from gaining access to the best technology around.Intel's Rajeeb Hazra has questioned China's determination to develop its own processor technologies.
AWS EC2 instances hit by datacentre power loss
Amazon's North Virginia region is experiencing problems, with problems occurring in the cloud's Elastic Compute, Relational Database Service and Elastic Beanstalk technologies.Problems began at 8.
Dell pushes Fluid File System with updated NAS boxes
Dell has updated its storage portfolio to include support for its Fluid File System.By bringing the Fluid File System to the Dell Compellent FS8600 NAS on Tuesday, the company has given enterprise users the ability to manage block and file storage via the same system across all three of its key storage lines — Compellent, EqualLogic and PowerVault.
Microsoft: Azure PaaS tech could be given away for free
Microsoft has an "ambition" to make some of Windows Azure's platform-as-a-service components free, after the IT giant announced sweeping changes to the service that ratcheted up its competition with Amazon Web Services.On Tuesday Microsoft's general manager for Windows Azure, Bill Hilf, told ZDNet UK that the company is contemplating making some of Azure's PaaS features free in an attempt to spur developer adoption.
Peer1 powers up UK-based GPU cloud
Peer1 Hosting has launched a GPU-backed cloud service designed for high performance computing workloads.The HPC Self Serve Cloud became available to buy on Tuesday, Peer1 announced at the Cloud Computing World Forum in London.
Fusion-io takes fresh server scalp with Cisco deal
Upstart PCIe-flash card maker Fusion-io has notched up another victory with the announcement of an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) relationship with Cisco.Cisco's UCS B-Series blade servers are set to get Fusion-io ioMemory 2 cards built into them, according to the announcement, which was made on Monday night.
HP Discover: Whitman goes to war
HP chief Meg Whitman hopes to draw together the various strands of her IT multinational and focus on services for individual customers, as she leads the troubled company into a war that will see it take on incumbents in cloud computing, databases and storage.
EMC: HP's 'ridiculous' 100TB dedupe claim is bogus
HP's claims that it has "leapfrogged" EMC by deduplicating data at more than three times the rate of its fastest system have been vigorously disputed by EMC.EMC said HP's decision was "puzzling", and argued the comparison was not fair because HP's claim was for four hardware systems working on four storage pools compared to EMC's figures for one system and one pool.