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Microsoft launches Azure tiered storage

In 2012, Microsoft bought cloud-storage vendor StorSimple and until this month there’s been little news about what Microsoft has been doing with StorSimple. StoreSimple is a cloud-integrated storage (CiS) product that allows users to store heavily used data on-premises/locally and … Continue reading

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Intel preparing to sell hybrid CPUs

Intel announced on Wednesday at GigaOm Structure in San Francisco that it is preparing to sell a Xeon E5-FPGA hybrid chip to some of its largest customers. With this new initative, Intel hopes to that some of the world’s largest … Continue reading

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AMD Showcases its Next-Gen x86 APU Running Fedora Linux

On Wednesday, during Red Hat Summit 2014, AMD announced a major milestone in the development of its enterprise software ecosystem with the first public demonstration of its second-generation AMD Opteron™ X-Series APU, codenamed “Berlin”, running a Linux environment based on … Continue reading

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Atlantis Computing Releases First In-Memory Software-Defined Storage Solution

 Atlantis Computing announced yesterday its next-generation Atlantis ILIO USX™ (Unified Software-defined Storage) solution purpose-built for virtualized server workloads such as databases, mail, collaboration, big data and any line of business application. Atlantis ILIO USX gives IT organizations the ability to … Continue reading

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Adapteva starts shipping Parallella boards

Adapteva announced at the end of July the delivery of the first Parallella computers ordered through its highly successful Kickstarter campaign. The Parallella is equipped with Adapteva’s breakthrough 16- and 64-core Epiphany multicore processors. The Epiphany multicore coprocessor is a … Continue reading

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Micron adds flash to DDR4 RAM to create 256GB DIMM

According to a press release published by EE Times, Micron is developing a DDR4-compatible hybrid DRAM-NAND cache data faster than the PCIe bus used by other flash cache products. The move gives flash a new position in the computer memory … Continue reading

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