Red Hat Thursday released a Linux software stack for compute-intensive IT environments that it said costs less than Microsoft's price for its comparable Windows offering.
Microsoft has built a strategy around the planned early-November release of its high-performance computing server that it hopes will be the catalyst to deliver massive computing power for future applications.
Oracle saved the biggest news for last at its OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. CEO Larry Ellison took the stage Wednesday afternoon to announce two hardware products developed with Hewlett-Packard that are designed to provide very high performance for data warehousing applications.
Microsoft Monday said it would ship Windows HPC Server 2008 on Nov. 1 with designs on challenging Linux for supplying high-performance computers and specifically taking aim at ailing Wall Street customers.
Today's data networks won't cut it as foundations for real-time applications like voice and video, experts said this week at the Interop New York conference.
A few weeks back, I wrote about the rise of green tech. Many folks have been asking me how real this trend is. I'm not sure what they mean by "real" (I'm a virtual gal, myself), but here's my best shot at an answer.
HP's $13.9 billion acquisition of EDS brings IT services expertise to the vendor, which is building its software and now services businesses via acquisition. Analysts remain skeptical that HP can successfully integrate the EDS business without significant culture clash and some client concern.
Hewlett-Packard is getting ready to launch the ExDS storage system, which will use up to 820 1T-byte drives for file-based storage, packaged in two 42U cabinets.