Cloud Infrastructure
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
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Fat boxes keep Super Micro from slumping
Behemoths boost server ASPs in March quarter, working on Moonshot killa
Hard drives snatch hold of semi giant LSI, jump right off a cliff
Dying disks weigh down sales
Brocade, wake up: Cisco is here, and it ALSO has 16 gig FC
Unstoppable Ethernet proved stoppable
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
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
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
Chipzilla wants to take over data center and telco networking
OpenStack: Control freak is a platform, just like Android and iOS
And increasingly for enterprise users over cloud operators
Teradata cranks appliance iron, adopts InfiniBand as cluster backbone
SQL-H to link Hadoop to both Teradata and Aster databases
HP: You know what healthy OpenStack bods need? Fibre Channel
Open-source biz types get FC, iSCSI access
Dell axes IT channel middlemen, installs Windows in the factory
Wanna buy a Dell till? No need to pay that integrator
Oracle cuts down Big Data Appliance to make pilots cheaper
Talks up zippier Oracle apps – and new apps – tuned for Exadata engineered systems
Speaking in Tech: Facebook's BETTER than Twitter ... for stalking your ex
Podcast Plus: Putting a bounty on keyboards of tweet-happy Cisco bods...
HGST unveils 12Gbit/s SAS SSDs for bankers, gamers and cloud-pushers
Subsidiary of mega-corp punts twice-as-fast kit
Piston ready to capture 'waves of customers' coming off AWS
Puts out Enterprise OpenStack 2.0 as bait
Building the actual real internet simply doesn't pay
Analysis It isn’t unicorns that keep the internets running, but eye-watering amounts of capital investment by infrastructure operators. However a substantial chunk of that investment never pays for itself and most of it barely repays the cost of the capital, reckons consultancy PwC.
IBM readies PureData Hadoop appliance for the summer
IBM wants to make it easier for companies to consume and use Hadoop, just like everyone else who is chasing that yellow elephant that likes to munch big data.
Flash to the future: Memristors, photonics, MLC-y tsunami
For a non-volatile storage medium flash development sure is volatile, as attendees at a distributor conference found out.
