Wham, cloud with Lustre
High performance computing – by which is meant traditional parallel supercomputing as well as data analytics and hyperscale cloudy infrastructure – is facing a looming file system and storage bottleneck, and Whamcloud, a startup backed by $10m in private funding and some of the top people behind the Lustre file system, want to help.…

Storwize swallowed
IBM is buying Storwize for its real-time, inline data compression technology and products.…

Dell does deal for PowerEdges, too
The inscrutable plan of Oracle for Solaris 10 on x64 servers became more… scrutable this morning. The company announced that Dell and Hewlett-Packard would be certifying and reselling Oracle’s Solaris and Enterprise Linux operating systems, as well as its Oracle VM implementation of the Xen hypervisor on their respective PowerEdge and ProLiant servers.…

Drops a sales ball
Quantum, the supplier of tape, reduplicating backup arrays and some file archiving software, has turned in a loss-making quarter, attributing it to poor sales in Europe and a North America region.…

More powerful than the original?
Daryl Brach, known as pfaffen online, has built a scale model of the Cray-1 supercomputer to house a PC.…

Pumped for the future
That $500m investment in XenSource from three summers ago is starting to pay off for Citrix Systems. The virtual desktop wave that helped lift Citrix in the first quarter continued to swell in the second quarter as the company booked $458.4m in revenue, up 16.7 per cent, and net income rose to $47.6m, up 11.8 per cent.…

Boilermakers of a different kind
Purdue University, the engineering school known by the nickname “The Boilermakers”, has tapped Hewlett-Packard to build a 1,000-node HPC cluster for scientific research. Rather than put the cluster into a traditional data center, Purdue is stuffing the machinery into HP’s POD containerized data center.…

vCenter for KVM and Xen
Convirture has unveiled a management tool for open source hypervisors.…

How to train your HPC dragon
DreamWorks SKG has signed a multi-year deal with Cerelink for cloud computing access.…

Keep buying, keep getting discounts
I love when IT vendors simplify things and make them more consistent. Because when they do, that is the surest way to know they have made something more complex for reasons they will never explain to customers.…