HP’s Moonshot servers are a tour de force of engineering that aim to restore the company’s innovation groove. Here are the details.
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HP Moonshot: A Big Bet On Innovative Engineering
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Cisco and OpenDaylight: The SDN Application Land Grab
Cisco is using the open source OpenDaylight initiative to spur application development to make its own SDN platform more valuable.
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Cloud Prices Drop, But Do Customers Save?
Cloud price wars sound like a good thing, but customers of IaaS have to be vigilant to ensure that real savings actually materialize.
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20 People Who Changed Tech: Marconi And Tesla
You gotta like Marconi, but you gotta love Tesla.
Guglielmo Marconi is usually credited with inventing the radio and pioneering long distance radio transmission, but Nikola Tesla’s work on both was more seminal and farther reaching. For their contributions to wireless telegraphy, Marconi and Karl Ferdinand Braun, another early innovator, won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1909. But because Tesla and Thomas Edison were involved in a pitched battle on the AC/DC front, the Nobel Committee was probably looking for a set of compromise candidates. How pitched was that battle? Edison electrocuted an elephant to demonstrate the “danger” of Tesla’s alternating current. An elephant? Weren’t there any lawyers around?
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ARM, AppliedMicro Challenge Intel Xeon
ARM and AppliedMicro have teamed up on the X-Gene server-on-a-chip. Its scale-out design includes fast switch controllers and interconnects to challenge Xeon in large data centers.
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Piston Ships OpenStack On A Stick 2.0
Piston Cloud Computing Tuesday released version 2.0 of Piston Enterprise OpenStack, a pre-configured cloud operating system based on the OpenStack project and loaded into a Piston cloud key memory device.
The customer sets a few configuration parameters on the cloud key memory stick, then inserts it into the USB port of a top-of-rack’s Ethernet switch. The system loads into the Linux server space of the switch, discovers the servers in the rack, and configures them into a system with virtual machine provisioning, pooled storage and networking and cloud management.
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Want Microsoft Office on iOS or Android? You may wait until 2014
Microsoft is making a big mistake. Assuming the leaked Office ‘Gemini’ roadmap is both legitimate and accurate, it appears that neither Outlook RT nor Office for iOS and Android will arrive any time soon. By the time they do, it’s possible nobody will care.
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Google Seeks Allies Against Patent Trolls
Google on Friday joined with BlackBerry, EarthLink and Red Hat to ask the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice to examine how businesses that sells products or services — operating companies — have taken to outsourcing patent claims to companies that exist solely to litigate — patent assertion entities (PAEs) — as a way of imposing costs on competitors without risk of retaliation.
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How To Set Up Floodlight and Test OpenFlow Rules
Floodlight is an open source controller for SDN. Here’s how to set it up to use with OpenFlow-enabled switches for testing and development.
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Prepare now to survive the end of Windows XP
The one-year countdown to the end of support for Windows XP began ticking down yesterday. If you’re still using the ancient, legacy version of Windows, it’s time to consider your next move.
To be clear, your PC will not burst into flames next year—at least, if it does, it won’t have anything to do with the expiration of Windows XP support. When XP support ends, Microsoft will no longer invest any resources to maintain or update it. Windows XP will still continue to work just as well as it has for the past decade.
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