Flooding in Thailand, one of the centers of hard disk drive manufacture, this monsoon season has caused a severe shortage in hard disks. Organizations may take a better look at thin provisioning, tiering, deduplication and solid state drives as a result.
What happens in high-performance computing eventually finds its way into mainstream computing. Keeping up with the latest innovations goes a long way toward managing a data center that meets your business' needs.
Not familiar with Kontron? You're not alone. Until recently, it's main business was embedded boards and integrated computing platforms. Now the hardware vendor has added rackmount computers and enclosures to its lineup.
Microservers are inexpensive, power efficient and not to be confused with blade servers. Find out whether this latest data center staple is right for you.
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MicroServer, Dell, Intel, blade server, SeaMicro
HP is jumping on the bandwagon supporting the new Intel Xeon E7 chips, but that doesn't mean it's leaving Itanium behind.
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Itanium, Cisco, Westemere EX, HP, Intel
Two new families of server CPUs provide what Intel calls dramatic performance improvements for multicore systems at the high end and low end of the market.
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Intel, multi-core, Xeon 7500, Xeon
Chip giant experiments with "cubicle cluster computing" as it looks to maximize efficiencies in its sprawling IT infrastructure.
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cloud computing, cubicle cluster computing, VMworld, virtualization, Intel
In a world of virtualization there is more to consider than server form factor.
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virtualization, server virtualization, Intel, server
It wasn't long ago that RISC processors powered EMC's server lines. Today, Intel's Nehalem EX processor is the power behind its four server lines. Together, Celerra, Centera, Clariion and Symmetrix offer a variety of solutions to match a variety of budgets.
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buyer's guide, Clariion, x86 servers, Intel, EMC
How long will Intel continue to dominate the server and PC processor markets?
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AMD, server hardware, server, Intel, processor
True to its promise, Oracle sticks to the high-end market with massive clustering x86 servers and a unified network fabric.
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x86 servers, Sun, Intel, Oracle, HPC
The Intel Hybrid Cloud program is a subscription-based server model for small business.
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Cloud server, Intel, server
The MIT-generated semiconductor startup finally has a partner and a position in the marketplace, one that sounds rather familiar.
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LAMP, SeaMicro, Intel, Tilera, web server
The computer giant takes the wraps off new rackmount and blade servers designed to require as little intervention and management as possible.
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HP, ProLiant, virtualization, Intel, Server Blades
Startup SeaMicro says Intel's Atom processor, widely used in netbook computers, has more than enough juice to power Web servers serving up HTML pages.
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server, SeaMicro, cloud computing, Xeon, Intel
Sun traditionally offered both AMD and Intel processors in its x86 server lineup. Now, it's looking like AMD's Opteron won't make the cut under Oracle's ownership.
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Oracle, AMD, x86 servers, Opteron, Intel
After years of talking up GPUs in high performance computing, Nvidia has some petaflops to finally back it up.
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nVidia, HPC, supercomputers, Intel, TOP500
The processor consists of 50 x86 cores crammed onto a single 22-nanometer-process chip smaller than a postage stamp.
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Intel, processor, HPC, supercomputer
This blog posting analyzes which Xeon 5000 series chip is best for virtualization.
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Xeon, server, Intel, virtualization, HP
Intel expects 70 percent of design wins from storage vendors opting to use Xeons.
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server hardware, server, Intel, Xeon
IBM has taken to the road with the message that Intel's Nehalem EX processors coupled with Big Blue's system engineering talents has resulted in a platform well-suited for virtualization, consolidation and mission-critical applications. Does the server hardware live up to the praise?
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virtualization, IBM, System x, server hardware, Intel
Last week, week both Yahoo and Intel unveiled green infrastructure projects that just might change how the data centers everywhere operate.
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Yahoo, environment, green IT, power and cooling, Intel
The chip giant might do a little better than expected thanks to its new x86 server processors, but there will be no big surprises. After 2009, that's a good thing.
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Nehalem, Xeon, x86 servers, Intel, earnings
Windows Server 2008 R2 will be the last version of Windows Server to support the Intel Itanium architecture.
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Intel, processor, 64-bit, Itanium, Windows Server 2008 R2
Hard-Core Hardware: "Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap
tall buildings in a single bound" -- will Nehalem EX be the cornerstone in x86
servers that are really as good as Intel claims?
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Xeon 7500, x86 servers, buyers guide, Xeon, Intel
Intel says the company's hardware advances will lead - not follow - software developments.
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virtualization, server, Xeon 6500, Intel, Xeon 7500
Server manufacturers have embraced the six-core Xeon 5600s.
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server, processor, server manufacturer, Intel, Xeon 5600
SGI has a new baby blade, the Origin 400.
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server, server processor, Intel, CPU, Xeon 5600
New AES-NI instructions will add native encryption/decryption to the CPU.
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Intel, Xeon 5600, server processor, server, CPU
Dell wants to help admins spend less time keeping x86 servers running. A new crop of Westmere-processor-based, self-healing machines are designed to be deployed and ignored.
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Westmere, Dell, x86 servers, x86 server, Intel
A report from Broadpoint makes the argument that both chip makers will do better than expected because x86 server sales are poised to take off. No doubt IBM, HP and Dell are hoping that's the case.
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Intel, x86, AMD, processor, x86 server
Virtually Speaking: VMware, Intel and RSA have partnered to make cloud computing more secure, for
the private cloud. Will anyone care?
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Intel, VMware, security, RSA, private cloud
OS Round Up: Despite the strength of backers Intel and Nokia, Meego has already fallen prey to a common open-source software pitfall -- a moronic name. Can it overcome its nomenclature handicap and help make Linux the OS of choice for mobile computing?
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smartphone, mobile linux, Intel, Nokia, OS
The The Westmere-EP chips add two more cores to the processor and support Turbo Boost.
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server, Intel, Westmere-EP, chip, processor
Sure, Intel is inside the box, but did you know sometimes Intel is the box? Here are five servers that the company best known for its chips sells to OEMs and other resellers. Is one of these right for you?
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servers, server, buyers' guide, Intel
With its troubles and foundries behind it, AMD seeks growth in areas Intel has been mining for years.
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Intel, mobile, Enterprise, AMD, sales
Hard-Core Hardware: Cisco Unified Computing System and HP BladeSystem currently lead in the all-in-one box market, but they may soon face stiff competition from upstart Liquid Computing.
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Cisco, network, Intel, liquid computing, unified communications
The two companies have teamed up to improve the performance-per-watt of EMC's cloud-based storage system.
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cloud computing, Cloud Storage, Intel, EMC, Cloud
Virtually Speaking: Intel began pimping its Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) solution at this week's IDF. Dell, Citrix Red Hat, Neterion and others have already hopped on board.
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virtualization, Intel, I/O, Dell, Red Hat
Enterprises should consider the security implications that come with adopting virtualization before deploying.
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Intel, virtualization
Hard-Core Hardware: To EMC, VMware and Intel chips are the glue joining storage and server hardware.
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VMware, Intel, chips, virtualization, EMC
