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Intel Ships Xeon E5 Chips For Cloud And HPC Servers
At IDF, Intel said it has begun shipping eight-core Xeon E5 chips based on the "Sandy Bridge" architecture
First AMD ‘Bulldozer’ Opteron Server Chips Ship
The Opteron 6200 Interlagos chips offer 16 cores with improved energy efficiency over current 12-core chips
Patch Promise For Apache Killer DoS Vulnerability
Apache has promised to patch a vulnerability that exposes Web servers to denial of service attacks
IBM And HP Vie For Server Top Spot
Strong sales helped IBM tie with HP in leading the worldwide server market, IDC figures show
Angry US IT Worker Wreaked Havoc At Drugs Firm
A disgruntled US IT administrator deleted multiple virtual hosts at Japanese pharmaceutical firm Shionogi
Dell Ups Server Temperature Limit In Cooling Push
Dell is making it easier for its servers to utilise fresh air cooling after setting new temperature limits
IBM Announces ‘Entry-Level’ Mainframe
IBM's new zEnterprise system is aimed at medium-sized organisations
Flash Optimisation Software Marks FlashSoft Debut
FlashSoft SE makes flash disks more cost-effective by creating a server-tier, read-write cache
Apache Server Cloud Content Delivery Is All Go
Apache Software Foundation’s Traffic Server 3.0 serves terabytes of data for large-scale cloud deployments
ARM President Targets Mobile PC Domination
ARM officials aim to dominate the mobile PC market within four years, but are more cautious about servers
Cisco Surprise In x86 Blade Server Top Five, IDC Says
IDC takes Cisco into account and finds it is the third-largest blade vendor, passing Dell but trailing HP and IBM
Dell, Rackspace & Opscode Demo Bare Metal Magic
The companies provisioned an OpenStack compute cloud from bare metal hardware in one hour
Racemi Migrates Across VMware, Xen And Hyper-V
DynaCenter automates movement of server images across or between different virtualisation hypervisors
Intel Announces Atom-based Smartphones For 2011
Intel CEO Paul Otellini said that smartphones using the “Medfield” chip should ship in the second half of 2011
Recovering Server Market Led By HP & IBM, Says IDC
IDC says global server markets showed their fastest growth in 10 years during Q3. HP and IBM were the main beneficiaries
Why Data Centre Cooling Is Getting Simpler
Free air and evaporative cooling are far more simple than the chillers and refrigeration units they could replace, says Peter Judge
Quiet Cabinets Save Energy, Says Kell
Instead of keeping noisy machines in a server room, why not make them quiet enough to share the office air-con?
AMD And Marvell Move To Compete With x86-ARM
AMD plans to move x86 architectures into the tablet space while Marvell aims an ARM chip at the data centre
Microsoft Database Products Revealed At PASS Conference
Microsoft unveiled the next version of SQL Server and a Warehouse appliance at the PASS Summit conference
Kaspersky Anti-Malware Package Bundles In Eight Products
Kaspersky Lab's anti-malware suite brings security for endpoints, file servers, mail servers and the network gateway
Release Candidate Of WinServer 2008 SP1 Improves Virtualisation
Microsoft has unveiled a Release Candidate (RC) for Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7
Cost-cutting Power7 Express Servers From IBM
IBM is rolling out Power7 Express servers for smaller enterprises and cost-conscious businesses
Latest Dell Hardware Targets Cloud And HPC
AMD-based server highlighted as Dell unveils its new hardware designed to bring HPC and cloud computing capabilities to a wider customer-base
HP Launches Low-Cost SMB Micro-Server Push
Hewlett-Packard takes on Dell, with a tiny cheap server aimed at small businesses
ARM Taking Aim At Green Server Space
Chip designer ARM is looking to move into the low-end server space through virtualisation support
Silly Season: Electricity From Waste Server Heat?
It's not perpetual motion, but the idea of generating electricity from server heat is a very wasteful way to save energy, says Peter Judge
Dell Supplies Servers For NASA Climate Research
NASA is spending £3.25 million ($5 mn) with Dell, to revamp its climate simulation research project using PowerEdge servers
HP Blades Pitched To Slice Into Server Sprawl
New blades from HP are packed with memory and designed to reduce sprawling data centres, the company says
SGI Creates Petaflop Single Cabinet Computing Platform
SGI announced a new computing platform that scales up to a petaflop of computing power in a single server cabinet