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Rackspace Ranked “Champion” in Cloud Infrastructure Category

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Rackspace has been listed as a Champion in Info-Tech Research Group’s Cloud Infrastructure vendor landscape. Info-Tech Research Group’s vendor landscape report provides a detailed, head-to-head, analytical comparison of products in a given market. Assessing vendors by the strength of their offering and their strategy for the enterprise, this report simplifies the selection process for IT decision makers and highlights products which should be considered.

“As a cloud industry leader, Rackspace continues to focus on building out the best cloud to service our customers,” said Pat Matthews, vice president and general manager of Rackspace Cloud. “Being recognized as a Champion in Info-Tech Research Group’s vendor landscape report validates our leadership position, which has been achieved through our deep industry expertise and commitment to Fanatical Support(R).”

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AMD Unveils New Opterons

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

AMD unveiled their new Opteron 4000 series (“Lisbon” platform) and Firestream coprocessor today. AMD has a particularly good slide that summarizes most of the other slides in most of the other “here’s our new cloud datacenter product” decks that I’ve seen in the past few weeks.

The 4000 series is AMD’s first server processor family to target the 32W, 50W, and 75W per node power bands, and AMD claims that the 32W 4162EE and 4164EE have the lowest power per core of any server processor on the market as of launch. This low per-core power puts the 1.8GHz 4164EE at the top of the 4000 series price range, at $698. At the bottom of the series price range is the 75W, 2.2GHz, four-core 4122, for $99. Clearly, AMD is not pricing these parts on anything like raw performance, but on efficiency.

The new Opterons are based on pretty much the same microarchitecture that AMD has been using for some time now, so there’s nothing new there. AMD has focused most of its efforts for Lisbon on getting the platform’s overall power down and its scalability up.

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Tilera & Quanta Now With 512-Core Cloud Server

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

SeaMicro two weeks ago announced a 512 Intel Atom cloud server.  Well, fellow start up Tilera and ODM Quanta are launching their own 512-core offering based on Tilera’s 64-core Pro64 chip. Tilera also announced plans to double the core count every two years starting with a 100-core processor in 2011 and a 200-core chip in 2013.

Tilera is trying to meet the demand of businesses deploying cloud computing or Web-based IT infrastructures, communications companies and HPC (high-performance computing) systems vendors, who all are trying to find ways of increasing the performance of their massive server farms while driving down power, cooling and floor space costs.

“It’s creating pretty much of a pinch,” Troy Bailey, vice president of marketing at Tilera, said in an interview, referring to the problems facing companies running lots of servers. “I think it’s pretty clear that getting IT the power [for their IT infrastructure], cooling it and getting the floor space are important.”

Industry analysts have called the move to cloud computing a transformative time for the industry, and that such times offer opportunities for new companies to make their mark.

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