AMD extends series processor portfolio

AMD has announced the Opteron 6100 Series processor family, which aims to address rising demand for low-power, balanced systems for small and medium enterprises and increased performance-per-dollar-per-watt for enterprise and public sector environments, says Data Center Knowledge.

A little over a year ago the AMD Opteron 6000 Series platform was introduced and a number of AMD partners (SGI, Cray, Acer, HP and Dell) followed with their own announcements of newly available AMD-powered systems.

AMD has five new processors to the 6000 Opteron family with the 6132, 6140, 6166, 6176 and 6180 processors.

The networking industry and networking professionals have taken a backseat to their server and storage counterparts in recent years as virtualisation and cloud computing have transformed enterprise application and service delivery, reveals Search Networking.

But as cloud computing progresses from an over-hyped marketing term to widely deployed enterprise architecture, networking vendors will try to climb into the driver's seat and articulate the importance of cloud network technology.

Already the exclusion of the networking industry from the early development of virtualisation, a basic building block of cloud computing, has thrown up roadblocks to virtualisation's scalability and portability, the report says.

Australian enterprise software sales will top $5.5 billion in 2011 according to Gartner, with collaboration, content management, social software, business intelligence and supply chain management leading the way, states IDM.

Worldwide enterprise software revenue is forecast to surpass $253.7 billion in 2011, a 7.5% increase from 2010 revenue of $235.9 billion. In Australia, enterprise software revenue is expected to grow 10.9% to reach $5.5 billion in 2011, with the Web conferencing and team collaboration segment expected to show the fastest growth, followed by enterprise content management software.

"The focus in the enterprise software industry is on upgrading of build-run-manage technologies to improve agility, establishing cloud-computing infrastructure services and results-reporting transparency," says Tom Eid, research vice-president at Gartner.