Today at re:Invent , Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced new Amazon EC2 X1 instances , which will feature up to 2 TB of memory, a full order of magnitude larger than the current generation of AWS high-memory instances. Demonstrating the importance of obtaining the highest performance available, AWS selected the 4 socket Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-8880 v3 (Haswell) to power the new instances.
Read MoreAt Mobile World Congress this week, Intel announced new efforts with several industry leaders to transform network infrastructure with standardized hardware and software, and help accelerate the industry’s move toward a flexible, agile software defined infrastructure. This enables both telecommunications and cloud service providers to improve network efficiencies and more quickly deliver new services and capabilities for consumers and businesses.
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