Cloud Infrastructure
Google takes on AWS, Azure virty servers with micro billing and fat disks
Google I/O Compute Engine open for all
Rackspace does tech support for popular languages on its cloud
Getting all fanatical about SDKs – for free
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
EMC offers 'continuous protection' to hot 'n' heavy VMAX users
Plus: VNX gets software-only RecoverPoint
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
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
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
Opscode cooks up deals to serve Chef automation from IBM, Joyent clouds
Already on AWS (sort of), Azure, Rackspace, and HP Cloud
Mellanox boffins concoct chips for 100Gb/sec InfiniBand
Swings to a loss in Q1 as R&D, sales, and marketing costs rise
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 How should we design the servers and end-user computers of the future?
IBM selling x86 server business to Lenovo?
There are rumors swirling around, again, that IBM is looking to sell off all or a portion of its x86 server business to Chinese PC maker and server partner Lenovo Group.
Project Savanna tames Hadoop big data muncher with OpenStack control freak
Batman and Robin. Peanut butter and chocolate. OpenStack and Hadoop. These are things that go together, with the latter pairing being something that commercial OpenStack distie Mirantis, commercial Hadoop distie Hortonworks, and commercial KVM and Linux distie (and soon to be OpenStack commercializer) Red Hat are putting together under a new OpenStack effort dubbed Project Savanna.
