Dimension Data Acquires OpSource
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Home Hosting Dimension Data Acquires OpSource The Managed Hosting Channel is brought to you by Rackspace Hosting Dimension Data Acquires OpSource June 30th , 2011 Rich Miller Dimension Data has acquired enterprise cloud specialist OpSource which will become part of a new Cloud Solutions Business Unit at Dimension Data . Terms of the deal were not . disclosed The deal combined two companies with ties to Japanese telco giant NTT , which acquired Data Dimension late last year . NTT Investment Partners holds a 5 percent stake in OpSource , and the OpSource public cloud platforms are hosted in NTT America’s data centers in Virginia and California , with expansion into one of NTT Europe’s data centers planned for coming months . OpSource has more than 600 customers for its managed hosting and
Home HPC Los Alamos Takes Supercomputers Offline Los Alamos Takes Supercomputers Offline June 30th , 2011 Rich Miller The Roadrunner system is one of two leading supercomputers housed at the Loa Alamos National Laboratory , which is being threatened by a large wildfire . The supercomputers have been taken offline as a . precaution The wildfire threatening Los Alamos , New Mexico has gained national attention , largely due to concerns about the safety of nuclear waste at Los Alamos National Labs , which played a key role in the Manhattan Project and nuclear weapons development and testing . As we noted Monday the Department of Energy facility also houses two of the world’s leading supercomputers the Cielo and Roadrunner systems . Those systems have been taken offline , Computerworld reports
Home Featured NYSE’s Data Fortress Powering the Financial Cloud NYSE’s Data Fortress Powering the Financial Cloud June 30th , 2011 Rich Miller The long main hallway of the NYSE Euronext data center provides a sense of the immense scale of the 400,000 square foot facility in New Jersey . Photo : Rich Miller There are few data centers in the world that are more difficult to get into than the new NYSE Euronex t facility in Mahwah , New Jersey . The huge building features extremely strong access control , a substantial security perimeter , and is built to survive well , just about . anything It is more robust than your typical structure , 8221 said Steve Rubinow , Chief Information Office at NYSE Euronext , who said the data center can withstand levels of punishment both man-made and natural
: Home Industry Perspectives The Service Catalog : Demystifying Cloud Highlighting thought leadership in the data center The Service Catalog : Demystifying Cloud June 30th , 2011 Industry Perspectives Raejeanne Skillern is director of cloud computing marketing for Intel . Follow her on Twitter RaejeanneS RAEJEANNE SKILLERN Intel Here’s a straightforward way to accelerate the adoption of cloud services : Create standardized service offerings and make them transparent to . users That’s the idea behind the new Service Catalog Usage Model from the Open Data Center Alliance . This document—one of eight Alliance usage models released recently—spells out the requirements for a standard , comprehensive catalog mechanism that will allow users to select and assess service . offerings The service
Home Blades Is a Sea Change Coming in the Server Market Is a Sea Change Coming in the Server Market June 29th , 2011 Rich Miller Calxeda CEO Barry Evans provides the first public display of the ARM servers the company is developing . Is the growing influence of huge cloud data centers driving a sea change” in server design and processor technology Or will x86 offerings from Intel and AMD continue to dominate , despite the current excitement about new architectures and custom server design Four companies debated the future of the server and processor market last week at Structure 2011, including executives from AMD and three newer players in the server game SeaMicro Tilera and Calxeda All agreed that huge purchases by cloud computing providers are changing the server . market Our
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