PriceAdvice – The Blue Book for Everything Else

In this slidecast, Ira Williams from PriceAdvice provides an overview of the company and describes how they help consumers value items for resale.

We want consumers to know they’re getting the best and most up-to-date prices for any used item they want to buy,” said Ira Williams, president of iTaggit. “Our goal is to become the most accurate valuation tool available for the purchase of used items on sites such as eBay, Amazon and craigslist. PriceAdvice was created in an effort to remove the guess-work many consumers face when buying a used item online and to make the process as easy as possible.”

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Strategic Blue - Your Broker for the Cloud

In this slidecast, James Mitchell, Founder & CEO of Strategic Blue discusses how his company acts as a Cloud Services Brokerage, providing financial intermediation services to corporate customers using cloud computing Infrastructure as a Service ("IaaS").

Strategic Blue takes over the client billing process from cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services and CloudSigma, without interfering with the client's technical access to the cloud. Strategic Blue is able to offer access to cloud computing infrastructure as a service on payment terms tailored for each client, at prices that will never exceed those available directly from the cloud provider. Discounted pricing can be offered where a client can commit to a minimum amount of usage over a period of time. Strategic Blue is able to provide a single invoice for access to multiple cloud providers, and is able to work with clients' purchase order procedures.

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Nimbus Data Wins Huge Flash Deployment at eBay

In this slidecast, Nimbus Data Founder and CEO Thomas Isakovitch announces one of the world's largest Flash storage deployments at eBay. He also provides a overview of Nimbus Data solutions and lays out where he thinks their enterprise flash storage technology is headed in the future.

This is an impressive win and tremendous validation for Nimbus, a company pioneering network-attached flash storage combined with a complete software platform,” stated Jim Handy, Chief Analyst with Objective Analysis. “Nimbus’ win at eBay shows that demanding customers are ready to replace conventional spinning disk arrays with flash even in large-scale environments to capture significant performance, power, and rackspace improvements. Nimbus’ comprehensive hardware and software make it well-positioned to capitalize on this tectonic shift in the storage industry.”

Today Nimbus also announced its second generation S-Class series of flash memory storage systems, which it describes as being three times faster than the original launched in 2010. The new devices add native support for Fibre Channel and Infiniband networking.

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Hot Interconnects Conference Looks to the Future of Networks

In this podcast, the Co-Chairs on the Hot Interconnects Symposium discuss their program agenda and why it continues to be the premier international forum high performance networking at all scales. The event takes place August 24-26 in Santa Clara, CA.

Two days of technical sessions led by Fabrizio Petrini from IBM TJ Watson, our 2011 General Chair, plus a day of tutorials will keep you on top of the latest industry developments and academic laboratories. Our objective is to address the Networking and Supercomputing families. This year we are proud to have Torsten Hoefler, University of Illinois (UIUC), and Patrick Geoffray, Myricom, as our 2011 IEEE Hot Interconnects Program Co-Chairs.

Featured Keynotes:

• The IBM Blue Gene/Q Interconnection Network and Message Unit. Philip Heidelberger, Research Staff Member at IBM


• The Computer that is the Network: A Future History of Big Systems. Greg Papadopoulos, Venture Partner, New Enterprise Associates; formerly CTO, Sun Microsystems


• Will Interconnect Help or Limit the Future of Computing? Shekhar Borkar, Intel Fellow and director of Extreme-scale Technologies at Intel Labs

The two-day symposium will be followed by a day of software tutorials. Register now.

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Interview: TOP500.org Looks at Fujitsu K Supercomputer

In this video, Dan Olds from Gabriel Consulting and Rich Brueckner from insideHPC interview the co-founders of the TOP500 list: Hans Meuer and Jack Dongarra. The discussion focuses on history of the TOP500 and the current #1 system on the list, the K Computer from Fujitsu in Japan.

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Gluster - A Better Way to Do Storage

In this slidecast, Tom Trainer and John Kreisa present Gluster - A Better Way to Do Storage.

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Aspera High Speed Data Transfer Software

In this slidecast, Aspera's Bhavic Vyas describes the company's high speed data transfer software.

We’re thrilled to be recognized as a leading file transport provider in cloud computing,” said Michelle Munson, president and co-founder of Aspera. “Organizations moving to the cloud have consistently chosen Aspera to efficiently and reliably manage the movement of Big Data. This award validates Aspera’s ongoing work to optimize global workflows for cloud adopters.”

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