Tag: PowerEdge C6100
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Cyber Infrastructure org goes with OpenStack and Dell
Cybera, a Canadian not-for-profit recently selected OpenStack along with Dell systems to build out their Infrastructure as a Service cloud. The organization, which is based in Alberta, “collaborates with public and private sector partners to accelerate research and product development that meets the needs of today’s society.” Most recently Cybera used OpenStack to build out…
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TIBCO, Dell, Arista & Mellanox deliver Extreme Low-Latency messaging solution for Financial Markets
When it comes to latency in financial trading, the name of the game is how low can you go. According to an industry analyst, a millisecond of latency in trading can translate into $100 million of lost revenue for a major brokerage firm. In a quest to quash latency while at the same time providing…
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Dell DCS unveils its 4th HPC offering in 12 months, and its a beefy one
Today Dell Data Center Solutions (DCS) is announcing the PowerEdge C6145, number four in our line of offerings targeted specifically at High Performance Computing. This AMD-based system, which contains two four-socket servers for a total of 96 cores, ranked as the highest performing x86 2U shared infrastructure server on the market based on SPECfp_rate2006 results.…
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Dell provides Ubuntu-powered IaaS-in-a-box
Yesterday, the announcement went out that the Dell | Canonical Enterprise Cloud, Standard Edition was out and ready for consumption. What this cloud-in-a-box allows folks to do is to set-up affordable Infrastructure-as-a-Service (Iaas)-style private clouds in their computer labs or data centers. The cool thing is that, because the Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) software is…
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Mark Shuttleworth on UEC and OpenStack
Mark Shuttleworth, the ever gracious founder of Ubuntu, stopped by Dell this morning to talk to various folks about various subjects. I was able to grab some time with him between meetings and get his thoughts on a few topics. I was particularly interested in getting his thoughts on Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) which will…
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What’s happening — A Dell / OpenStack Update
A couple of days ago Bret Piatt, who handles Technical Alliances for OpenStack, came up to Austin to have further discussion with our team’s software engineers around OpenStack. If you’re not familiar with OpenStack, it is an open source cloud platform founded on contributed code from Rackspace and NASA’s Nebula cloud. The project was kicked…