The Top500 list regularly polls the organisations that run supercomputers creating a list of largest, fastest, most efficient and so on. The 50th release of the Top500 list was released yesterday.…
All 500 top supercomputers run Linux
Dropbox deploys IPv6 at the edge
Dropbox's blog has a post from Haowei Yuan and colleagues, about engineering the Dropbox network to support IPv6 at the edge. Dropbox is serving about 15% of their requests via…
IBM’s new z/14 encrypting mainframe
IBM launches the z/14 mainframe, which encrypts data at rest and in flight using Pervasive Encryption.
End-Of-Life: Brocade V5600 router
Brocade, after the sale of the Vyatta group to AT&T, have announced the End of Life of the Brocade v5600 router platform. The platform is end of life on October…
Adding client hosts to a FreeIPA Server for Identity Management
Our look at the FreeIPA server as an Identity management server continues with this installment. We look today at adding other systems to the FreeIPA platform to take advantage of…
IBM prepares for cognitive Wimbledon
IBM continues its partnership with ALTEC this year with innovative cognitive solutions to help the visitor and media. The Wimbledon Open Tennis Championships are overseen by ALTEC, the operating company…
IPv6 – 5 years after World IPv6 Launch Day – where are we now?
A long time back, the Internet was small. It had addresses, but only 4.29 billion of them. Back in 1979, when the addressing was being solidified, that must have seemed…
IOX cable links India and South Africa
IOX has started surveying a new route with Alcatel to link India and South Africa. IOX (Indian Ocean eXchange) will also connect the islands of Mauritius and Rodrigues as waypoints on…