Guest blog by: Alon Harel If your job is related to networking, be it a network admin, an R&D engineer, an architect, or any other job involving networks, it is very likely you have heard people around you (or GASP! maybe even heard yourself) express doubts about the proliferation of Software Defined Networking (SDN) [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida today unveiled the state’s most powerful supercomputer, a machine that will help researchers find life-saving drugs, make decades-long weather forecasts and improve armor for troops. The HiPerGator supercomputer and recent tenfold increase in the size of the university’s data pipeline make UF one of the nation’s leading public [...]
Benchmarking is a term heard throughout the tech industry as a measure of success and pride in a particular solution’s ability to handle this or that workload. However, most benchmarks feature a simulated workload, and in reality, a deployed solution may perform much differently. This is especially true with databases, since the types of data [...]
Of the many strange-sounding application and product names out there in the industry today, Hadoop remains one of the most recognized. Why? Well, we’ve talked about the impact that data creation, storage and management is having on the overall business atmosphere, it’s the quintessential Big Data problem. Since all that data has no value [...]
We are happy to join the Network Intelligence Alliance, an industry organization created for collaboration among the Network Economy’s technology providers. Through our participation in the Alliance, Mellanox will help develop and market innovative solutions that further improve networking solutions for Enterprise, Cloud providers and Telecom Operators. Using Mellanox’s low-latency, CPU efficient 10/40GbE NICs [...]
The Lustre® file system has played a significant role in the high performance computing industry since its release in 2003. Lustre is used in many of the top HPC supercomputers in the world today, and has a strong development community behind it. Last week, Xyratex announced plans to purchase the Lustre trademark, logo, website [...]
Guest blog by Steve Barry, Product Line Manager for HP Ethernet Blade Switches One of the barriers to adoption of blade server technology has been the reliance on a limited number of network switches available. Organizations requiring unique switching capabilities or extra bandwidth have had to rely on Top of Rack switches built by networking [...]
Written By: Erin Filliater, Enterprise Market Development Manager Via the Storage Solutions Group Everyone knows that flash storage is a big deal. However, one of the gaps in the flash storage market has been in enterprise flash systems. Flash caching has for some time been in many enterprise storage environments, but enterprise all-flash [...]
HP updated its enterprise hardware portfolio with the most notable addition being networking devices that combined wired and wireless infrastructure to better manage bring-your-own-device policies.One of those highlights is the Mellanox SX1018 HP Ethernet switch, which lowers port latency and improves downlinks. The Mellanox SX1018HP Ethernet Switch is the highest-performing Ethernet fabric solution [...]
Written By: Eli Karpilovski, Manager, Cloud Market Development Windows Azure, one of the largest public cloud providers in the world today, recently ran a system performance benchmark, called LINPACK, to demonstrate the performance capabilities of its ‘Big Compute’ hardware. Windows Azure submitted the results and was certified as one of the world’s largest supercomputers [...]
