Amazon Web Services has announced that is Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) now has dedicated hosts. Amazon announced last month that this feature would be coming to AWS soon. With EC2 Dedicated Hosts users will be able to control the mapping of their EC2 instances to the underlying physical servers.
Nimble Misses Q3 Expectations & Its Stock Takes A Beating
Nimble Storage reported its third quarter earnings Thursday and the news wasn’t exactly terrific. While their revenue was up 37% over this same quarter last year it was about $7 million under analysts expectations. Nimble also reported a greater loss than expected at $11 million. And the final bit of bad news was that fourth
Google Is Increasing Speed Of Its Cloud Platform
Google Cloud Platform customers rely on Google’s global network for their service. With the modern media-rich and web applications customers need great network performance. Google has made several announcements around improving network performance including the general availability of HTTPS Load Balancing, a software-defined network virtualization stack, Andromeda, and the introduction of Cloud Router and Subnetworks.
Dell Announces New Fluid File Video Solution For Surveillance
Recently Dell Inc. announced a new solution to support to the growing customer demand of in storage requirements for video surveillance, Fluid File Video Solution. Video surveillance and cameras are creeping into every place imaginable, whether it is for security or analytical purposes. Not only are their cameras almost everywhere, they are using better and
Netlist And Samsung Partner To Deliver NVDIMM-P
Today Netlist, Inc. announced that they have entered into a five year Joint Development and License Agreement with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., to produce a new class of memory solution, NVDIMM-P (NV-P). NV-P is based off of Samsung’s NAND Flash and DRAM technology and Netlist’s pioneering work on HyperVault. This new technology is aimed at
Intel Scalable System Framework & Omni-Path Fabric Expand Applications Of HPC Systems
Mentioned briefly in the Dell release on Monday, Intel has announced various advancements to its Intel Scalable System Framework (Intel SSF), with the IT giant asserting that it will bring high-performance computing capabilities and its benefits to more industries and new workloads. As such, Intel has introduced the Intel Omni-Path Architecture (OPA), a new HPC-optimized fabric technology
Google Introduces Custom Machines Types For Its Cloud Platform
Today Google Cloud Platform announced Custom Machines Types. With this new feature users that run their applications in the cloud no longer have to over buy VMs that are sold in pre-packed numbers, typically in twos. Instead users will be able to build the VM in the shapes (vCPU and memory) they need for their
Cloudian & Quanta Cloud Technology Partner To Deploy Object-Based Storage
Cloudian has announced a partnership with Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT) aimed at deploying HyperStore smart data storage software in order to bring object-based storage to QCT’s customers. In this collaboration, QCT will integrate HyperStore software (currently in version 5.2) within its Intel-powered storage appliances, indicating that customers will benefit from hyperscale in both business and operational
ClusterHQ Releases New Tools For Dev Community & Partners With Leaders In Enterprise Storage
ClusterHQ has made several announcements recently including the release of two new solutions, dvol, a CLI providing Git-like functionality for data and the ClusterHQ Volume Hub, both of which are designed to manage stateful microservices all the way from development to production. ClusterHQ indicates that their new solutions will address various challenges DevOps teams face as
Pure Storage Introduces Predictive Platform & 3D TLC Memory
Today Pure Storage announced innovations that are aimed at dramatically simplifying storage ownership. Pure is announcing a predictive customer support with Pure1 Global Insight, new 3D TLC NAND flash technology, and its FlashStack Converged Infrastructure now also includes solutions for Oracle and SAP. Pure States that these new innovations will increase customer loyalty and the




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