Silicon Graphics was, in the 1980s, a brand famous for high-powered graphics workstations. After some corporte restructuring and an asset buyout by Rackable Systems, Inc. in 2009, the Silicon Graphics ...

Getting the benefits of big data analytics can be challenging, but it is a necessary endeavor for any organization to succeed going forward. Understanding the challenges to maximizing big data ...

Sept. 23 — Its name is Rivanna, and it’s the University of Virginia’s new $2.4 million Cray computing cluster, a high-performance machine – really a combination of linked high-power computers (hence, ...

Getting the benefits of big data analytics can be challenging, but it is a necessary endeavor for any organization to succeed going forward. Understanding the challenges to maximizing big data ...

This week StackIQ released the latest version of their automation and cluster management suite with the announcement of Rocks+ 6. While often considered a pure high performance computing geared ...

The biggest feature in the SQL Server 2019 preview launched at Ignite is SQL Server Big Data clusters. Travis Wright, Microsoft's principal program manager for SQL Server, explains exactly what this ...

For one of the last segments of Day 3 of AWS re:Invent Conference in Las Vegas, Dave Vellante, joined by Jeff Kelly, welcomed Lonne Jaffe, the CEO of Syncsort, one of the oldest companies in the IT ...

Big data is no longer the sole domain of big companies. As the perception of big data moves from futuristic hype to real-world opportunity, the promise of improved decision making, increased ...

DBAs have many options for how to ensure high availability (HA) for SQL Server. Some of these options are available in the different versions and editions of SQL Server itself. Some are available in ...

The concept of “smart cities” seems like a contemporary urbanism trend. But as early as the 1960s, cities were using technology to gather, interpret, and visualize civic data. Here’s how a 1974 report ...