Cloud Infrastructure
Facebook plans globe-spanning hardware deployment
Social network gets edgy with its infrastructure
The real reason why Dell wants to go private: To fondle big Boomis
Cloud integrator waggles its new API tool
EMC, VMware dangle axe over 1,804 workers around the planet
Tech CEO 101: Sales up, profits down, time to sharpen blade
Oracle, SAP under attack: How cloud upstarts steal their lunch
Analysis Biz bosses can't wait to offload gear to rivals, or so we're told
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Dell snaps up Enstratius for cloud wrangling
Big Mike is getting agnostic about heavenly infrastructure
MapR revs up HBase queries with M7 Hadoop distro
Solr search engine means elephants don't need to chew big data cud
Arista monster switches fluff up cloud with 1 million virty machines
7500E mod box sports 100Gb/sec speeds and integrated optics on ports
VMTurbo trousers $7.5m to bring Adam Smith's hand to more clouds
Gearing up engineering and sales for a future hybrid world
Opinion
Speaking in Tech: Facebook's BETTER than Twitter ... for stalking your ex
Podcast Podcast
Facing another tedious commute home with only the dead-eyed grumblings of your fellow passengers - or the blaring radio of other motorists - for entertainment? Download this banter-packed episode of El Reg's one-and-only podcast and you could be catching up on everything that has happened this week in tech, happily …
Speaking in Tech: Cloud, yes. Doughnuts, yes! Five-mile run, NOO!
Podcast Podcast
It's time for the weekly Speaking in Tech podcast, hosted by Greg Knieriemen, Ed Saipetch and Sarah Vela - although Sarah is out and about yet again enjoying SXSW 2013. But the guys are joined by special guest Brian Gracely, vice-president of solutions at enterprise-grade cloud software maker Virtustream and co-host …
Private cloud user in dialogue with Atmos, el Reg facilitating
Atmos user Michael Roney identified some difficulties he was having with an Atmos array on an EMC community website, saying he wanted to do ordinary-seeming things but couldn't. EMC has responded, saying he is trying to do things that are rarely, if ever done.
News
Leave keys to your data centre to a Grizzly? Brocade thinks: Yes
Also whisks sheet off new software-defined networking toys
Oracle reveals secret recipe for free DIY storage cloud
How far will the virtual ZFS fun scale?
Cloudera revs up Impala SQL for Hadoop
Big-data elephant to pronk like a gazelle - or roar like a Chevy
Pivotal a 'cult' led by charismatic visionaries
Asian head says talks already under way with VCE
Azure is Microsoft's billion-dollar baby – maybe
More like a whole lot of software sold to partners
Fat boxes keep Super Micro from slumping
Behemoths boost server ASPs in March quarter, working on Moonshot killa
Mellanox adds VM-flitting to ConnectX-3 server adapters
Going Pro with VXLAN and NVGRE to stretch across Layer 3 nets
Nvidia Tesla bigwig: Why you REALLY won't need x86 chips soon
Interview Find out where Intel, AMD, ARM stand in GPU giant's roadmap
Cloudmeter pulls big data from the network, not the servers
Adds Insight app nanny to Stream data siphoner
Are you being robbed of sleep by badly designed servers?
Sysadmin Blog Mornings, nights, they all blur into one for our man Trevor
IBM selling x86 server business to Lenovo?
Talks ongoing, likely only System x racks and towers, not FlexSystems
Project Savanna tames Hadoop big data muncher with OpenStack control freak
Mirantis, Hortonworks, and Red Hat pull out the whips and peanuts
Intel: Now THIS is how you forge physical, virtual switches
Intel has x86 chips, switch ASICs, and tweaks to the Linux operating system that it says allow it to not only make better physical switches, but is also advancing the idea of using its chip and software tech to build a virtual switch for linking virtualized servers together and to layer network application services onto the network.
OpenStack: Control freak is a platform, just like Android and iOS
The OpenStack Summit is underway this week in Portland, Oregon, and the top brass at the companies who have been building the cloud controller and selling it to customers want everyone to know that this is not some open source project with promise, but a real product that can be put to use in data centers today.
Teradata cranks appliance iron, adopts InfiniBand as cluster backbone
Another database and data warehousing vendor has adopted InfiniBand as its backbone for data transmission. While upgrading the x86 iron inside its Active Enterprise Data Warehouse appliance and rolling out a new data mart server, Teradata said it was ditching its proprietary networking hardware and moving its homegrown Bynet networking stack to run atop of 40Gb/sec InfiniBand switches and adapters.
