Hardware & Grid
Bear Updates GemFire
NEW YORK-Bear Stearns has recently signed a three-year contract renewal with enterprise fabric platform provider GemStone Systems, even though the bank is primed to be integrated with JPMorgan and its enterprise backbone, DWT has learned.
Grid Winners Announced
There was cause for celebration in the New York grid computing community last week as sibling publication Waters announced the winners of the first annual Global Grid Awards, or Griddies, after the second annual Street#Grid event in lower Manhattan.
Front-Office Grids Not a Pipe Dream
NEW YORK-Although financial firms have been mulling a grid environment in the front office, there are still challenges to making it happen, say industry insiders.
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GemStone Debuts GemFire 5.5
NEW YORK-Enterprise data fabric platform provider GemStone Systems has announced today, April 28, the release of version 5.5 of its GemFire Enterprise offering, vendor officials tell DWT .
AMD Launches Desktop Initiative
SUNNYVALE, CALIF.-Processor maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has released its new desktop offering as part of the AMD Business Class initiative, today, April 28.
Liquidnet to Deploy Data Grid
NEW YORK-In an effort to combat and eliminate database bottlenecks, crossing network provider and agency brokerage Liquidnet is looking to adopt a data grid strategy by the end of 2009, DWT has learned.
Citi Takes Datacenter Green
LONDON-Without investing in leading-edge green technologies, Citi has managed to achieve a 20 percent energy savings for its new datacenter serving Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), say bank officials who spoke during a recent conference on the…
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Datacenter Spending Needs Revamping
NEW YORK-The industry is facing an invisible crisis due to rapidly increasing infrastructure costs for new datacenters, concludes a recently published survey by datacenter think tank Uptime Institute.
IBM Readies Diskless On-Demand Environment
NEW YORK-IBM is working on releasing a diskless environment for the Dynamic option of its Deep Computing Capacity on Demand (DCCoD) offering to debut early in the second quarter, DWT has learned.
Study: Green IT Adoption Wanting
LONDON-European firms are increasingly alert to the green IT agenda, but lack an understanding of what environmental technology options are available in the market, according to a white paper published by IT market research firm Vanson Bourne.
Egenera Expands OEM Partnerships
MARLBORO, MASS.-Datacenter virtualization software and hardware provider Egenera is on the verge of announcing a newly inked original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement with a "global firm," DWT has learned.
Pimp My CPU
As the introduction and adoption of grid computing revolutionized the financial services industry, another disruptive technology is just off in the wings waiting to burst onto the scene-massive parallel processing.
AMD Preps GPU-CPU Hybrid for 2009 Launch
SUNNYVALE, CALIF.-Processor maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) will release the first products featuring its new microprocessor design in 2009, officials tell DWT .
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Wachovia Standardizes Datacenters
NEW YORK-To achieve its ultimate goal of cost savings, energy efficiencies and processing power, Wachovia planned to deploy its "datacenters in a box" design; however, after a three-and-a-half-year project to upgrade its global datacenters, the Charlotte…
Platform Adds Cell Processor Support
NEW YORK—Grid computing software vendor Platform Computing has added support for high-performance cell processor-based systems with its latest version of Symphony, dubbed Symphony for the IBM BladeCenter with Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.) technology,…
Intel Readies Nehalem Processor Line
NEW YORK-Following the release of its Penryn family of processors, Intel plans to debut new processor technology in the second half of this year, vendor officials tell DWT .
3Tera Adds Solaris Support
ALISO VIEJO, CALIF.-By the end of March, users of AppLogic platform, a grid operating system designed to enable utility computing for running and scaling Web applications from 3Tera, will be able to run Sun Microsystems Solaris-based applications, say…
Lehman Works to Share Grids
NEW YORK-Global investment bank Lehman Brothers is preparing to share its various production computing grids among several of its businesses with the eventual goal of merging them, firm officials tell DWT .
DataSynapse Adds Microsoft Support
NEW YORK-Application virtualization software provider DataSynapse has announced the release of the latest version of its grid computing software FabricServer 2.5 today, Jan. 14, which includes support for Microsoft application platforms, including .Net…
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