Apprenda avails SaaSGrid

Apprenda, a provider of solutions that enable ISV's and enterprises to embrace the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery paradigm, revealed the availability of SaaSGrid, an application-server for SaaS.

SaaSGrid is defined as a software delivery fabric that was born of the advanced and distributed architecture patterns behind many of the world's most successful SaaS companies.

It is capable of overcoming technical obstacles such as single instance multi-tenancy and grid scalability and offers application services like billing and subscriber management, and application lifecycle management.

The US Energy Department's Argonne National Laboratory has commissioned IBM to build what is said to become one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, reveals PC World.

The computer, a model nicknamed Mira, will be capable of executing 10 quadrillion calculations per second, or 10 petaflops, and be operational in 2012, IBM says. It will be built on the next version of IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer architecture, called Blue Gene/Q.

Through funding from the National Science Foundation, Argonne will allow industry, academia and government researchers to access the computer for large-scale research and development projects, says Dave Turek, head of IBM's deep computing group.

Oracle is taking aim at the fast-growing storage demands of large enterprises with the latest version of its high-end tape drive, which will be able to pack 5TB of uncompressed data onto a tape cartridge, says Mac Video.

The T10000C tape drive has more than three times the capacity of any drive Oracle sells now, and the company claims it beats any other vendor's product as well.

Installed throughout an Oracle StorageTek SL8500 Modular Library System, the new drives would provide a total library capacity of 500 petabytes, according to Tom Wultich, director of product management for tape storage at Oracle.