Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Adaptive Computing Spans The DigitalGlobe

Given a choice between developing their own cluster and data management software or buying it off the shelf from third parties, most large enterprises would prefer to buy rather ...Full Article

Foundation Positions Cloud Foundry PaaS As Enterprise Standard

Cloud Foundry, the platform cloud framework long associated with VMware and then its Pivotal spinoff, is going the way of OpenStack now that Pivotal intends to establish a formal ...Full Article

SAP HANA Wrings Performance From New Intel Xeons

The in-memory HANA database designed by SAP to radically improve the performance of queries and transaction processing has been a boon to the company. It is the fastest growing ...Full Article

How Priceline.com Rid In-Memory Cache Of Java Jitters

Priceline.com is one of the early Internet startups, and as such it has built a lot of its own technology for gathering up pricing information on airfares, hotel rooms, ...Full Article

Enterprise Guru Nadella Takes The Helm At Microsoft

The search is over, and perhaps a calmer and more focused era is beginning for Microsoft now that it has tapped insider Satya Nadella to become its next chief ...Full Article

Cloud And Virtualization Combo Pushes VMware To $5 Billion Heights

Server virtualization giant VMware, majority-owned by EMC, had a banner year, punching through the $5 billion mark in total revenue for 2013. In fact, the company posted $5.21 billion ...Full Article

Stratus Moves Fault Tolerance From Hardware To Software

In the modern hyperscale datacenter, companies such as Google and Amazon code their applications so they span multiple servers and replicate work and data sufficiently that the crash of ...Full Article

The NoSQL Heart of Telco Messaging

You probably haven't heard of Openwave Messaging. But if you get email, voice mail, or other messaging services from a tier-one telecommunications firm, chances are fairly good that you ...Full Article

Facebook Whips Systems Into Shape With Customized Chef

Like many modern corporations that exist mainly to supply a service over the Internet, Facebook would like to use open source software wherever practical in its infrastructure and with ...Full Article

How Ancestry.com Branched Out And Embraced Scale

Ancestry.com is dedicated to discovering, preserving, and sharing family histories, and it knows all about the issues of scaling up IT operations to match a growing number of users. ...Full Article
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