How do you sex up an input-output system that will blow away data center bottle necks? Have Verne Troyer announce it at a groovy DEMO party with drink serving go-go girls! Fusion-io, announced its autocommit memory system, which allows you to execute one billion input-output commands in a rack of around eight servers… Tweet This [...]

Here’s a prediction for 2012 you can bank on: the world’s data centers are going to be busy, just like they were in 2011. Emerson Network Power has put together an infographic on the State of the Data Center 2011… Tweet This Post

We’ve talked here before in ReadWriteWeb about the so-called “carrier cloud” concept being developed by Alcatel-Lucent. Think about the level of interconnectivity your enterprise data center would need to present voice and multimedia data to customers at carrier speed, while at the same time transferred to a cloud platform that’s scalable and easily provisioned… Tweet [...]

Better grab an umbrella, because it’s about to get real cloudy. A new study by Cisco estimates that global traffic generated by cloud computing services will increase a staggering 12 times by 2015 compared to cloud traffic in 2010, while data center traffic will increase at a less-showy-but-still-impressive four times traffic by 2015… Tweet This [...]

The question among both cloud computing consumers and supercomputer clients alike has been when the distinction between the little cloud and the big iron would disappear. Apparently that boundary evaporated several months ago… Tweet This Post

Not long ago at all, Oracle laid claim to building the systems that managed a majority of the world’s data. This year, the group making the same claim is a spinoff from Yahoo. The onset of Internet-size databases and cloud architectures brought about architectural quandaries about the nature of relational databases that no one had [...]

Fusion-io, a flash storage company, announced its latest product ioCache, a virtualization solution that ties into the company’s focus on data center efficiency. ioCache integrates flash memory and caching, or saving data in the background for later use, to free up otherwise redundant actions in servers… Tweet This Post

This is the first of a two-part exclusive on Facebook’s involvement with and creation of open source technologies. For these articles, we spoke with two of Facebook’s open source gurus, David Recordon and Amir Michael, about how the company is opening its infrastructure to other developers and organizations… Tweet This Post

Centrify, a company securing on-premise and cloud servers, raised $16 million in their fourth round of funding yesterday, led by Index Ventures. The company provides a single sign-on for access to servers in addition to management solutions… Tweet This Post

One of the little-known facts about social game giant Zynga is that it is one of the biggest operators of cloud computing infrastructure, built to support its current customer base of more than 281 million monthly active users… Tweet This Post

CloudFlare is on fire. The plucky startup, which aims to speed up and protect any website, announced today that it has added seven additional data centers in the US, Europe and Asia. CloudFlare now boasts a total of 12 data centers around the world “at the Internet’s strategic points… Tweet This Post

Apple’s huge new data center in North Carolina is getting a little brother. According to Data Center Knowledge, Apple is building a new data center in Santa Clara, CA. Data Center Knowledge reports that “Apple signed a seven-year lease for 2… Tweet This Post