Server

IBM starts renting cloudy bare metal Linux almost-mainframes

LinuxONE servers come to the Big Blue cloud

PaaS + IaaS21 Apr 2023 | 9

Stratus ships latest batch of fault-tolerant Xeon servers

OK, they're a bit old in terms of Intel kit, but these aren't your regular systems

Systems14 Apr 2023 | 13

Intel pulls plug on server system design division

Blueprints flogged off to Taiwan's MiTAC

On-Prem13 Apr 2023 | 5

OVH punts hybrid water and immersion cooling for high performance systems

Air by itself just doesn't cut it anymore

Energy Efficient Datacenters13 Apr 2023 | 10

Microsoft tells admins to autoreview your Autopatch alerts or autolose the service

And you wouldn't want that ... would you?

Security05 Apr 2023 | 20

Amtrak back on track after server breakdown forces dozens of cancellations

Sounds like some IT teams are due for some training

Software27 Mar 2023 | 7

Windows 11 puts 'disgusting' Remote Mailslots protocol out of its misery

It's simple, unreliable, insecure, and on its way out

OSes13 Mar 2023 | 65

US plays Whac-A-Mole with Inspur subsidiaries to close China sanction loopholes

If your name's not on the entity list ... you're OK to do business with American companies

On-Prem11 Mar 2023 | 8

US adds Inspur – friend to Intel, IBM, Cisco and hyperscalers – to export ban list

Loongson, China’s most advanced chipmaker and a desktop contender, also added to entity list

On-Prem06 Mar 2023 | 1

Salesforce banks savings by sweating tech infrastructure for an extra year

Revenue rocks, but boosting margins means five year old servers and four year old PCs

SaaS02 Mar 2023 | 8

Kremlin claims Ukraine hackers behind fake missile strike alerts

Ten cities panic after emergency systems start Putin out warnings of an impending attack

Security23 Feb 2023 | 71

Save $7 million on cloud by spending $600k on servers, says 37Signals' David Heinemeier Hansson

Not doing the sums on repatriation is 'financial malpractice at this point'

PaaS + IaaS22 Feb 2023 | 74

IBM cheapens Oracle by delivering promised power-up for some POWER servers

Plus – calm down now – all the fun of OS subscriptions!

Spotlight on Databases15 Feb 2023 | 3

Heata offers free hot water by mounting servers on people's water tanks

Novel use of waste heat by UK company – but it's still in trial

On-Prem12 Jan 2023 | 52

After long delays, Sapphire Rapids arrives, full of accelerators and superlatives

Look at our big claims, but don’t think about how AMD beat us in the DDR5, PCIe 5 race

Systems10 Jan 2023 | 26

Microsoft boosts Azure networking, storage with composable infra grab

Slurps ‘Fungible’, a manufacturer of DPUs and fabrics that will join Redmond’s engineering gang

Off-Prem10 Jan 2023 | 2

Taiwan's Gigabyte spins off server biz as wholly owned subsidiary

Consumer motherboard tech will reside in unit that's left behind

On-Prem04 Jan 2023 | 3

HPE to offload remaining stake in Chinese joint venture H3C

Nothing to do with Washington and Beijing butting heads, says US giant

On-Prem03 Jan 2023 | 1

It's time to retire 'edge' from our IT vocabulary

Opinion The term has become so ambiguous it's verging on irrelevance

Systems22 Dec 2022 | 58

Ventana targets hyperscalers with customizable RISC-V server chip

RISC-V Summit Aims to take away the pain of designing an SoC in-house

Systems12 Dec 2022 | 5

HPE hits record compute profit margin, insists you're buying bigger boxes, not being milked

Order books full and price cuts are coming as supply chains unkink

On-Prem30 Nov 2022 | 4

Equinix would offer more liquid cooling but struggles without standards

Immersion has different problems: datacenters aren't strong enough to hold lots of liquids

Systems30 Nov 2022 | 6

Boss broke servers with a careless bit of keyboarding, leaving techies to sort it out late on a Sunday

On Call Keeping things tidy is a thankless but critical task

On-Prem25 Nov 2022 | 139

Databases still pushing more hardware purchasing than any other app

$40 billion heading out the door for data management servers and storage in 2022 alone

Systems08 Nov 2022 |

The all liquid-cooled colo facility rush has begun

AI and HPC deployments means propping up 250kW densities per rack

Systems08 Nov 2022 | 13

Thanks to 'resilient' American cloud plus games consoles, AMD squeezes into winter

PC chip slump forces break-even non-profit impression for a few months

On-Prem02 Nov 2022 |

After spate of delays, Intel promises Sapphire Rapids Xeons for early 2023

x86 giant offers January launch, AMD eating its chips

Systems01 Nov 2022 | 4

AMD's Epyc 4 will likely beat Intel Sapphire Rapids to market

HPE to start shipping Genoa-equipped systems in December – Intel's 4th-gen Xeons eventually

Systems01 Nov 2022 | 7

Can gamers teach us anything about datacenter cooling? Lenovo seems to think so

Analysis Taming high heat in compact form factors is old hat in the PC community

On-Prem31 Oct 2022 | 27

Datacenter outages are costing more, $1m+ failures now common

And operators not getting any better at saving power – or watching the water their bit barns drink

On-Prem21 Sep 2022 | 5

VMware teases replacement for so-insecure-it-was-retired P2V migration tool

vCenter Converter will make a comeback

Virtualization14 Sep 2022 | 10

IBM adds iTaaS to System I, Power 10 server bundle

$50/user/month to bring cloud-like opex delights to midrange on-prem environments

On-Prem06 Sep 2022 | 2

Qualcomm readying new Arm server chip based on Nuvia acquisition

AWS said to be taking an interest in homegrown silicon, meaning chipmaker must have a functional demo

Systems19 Aug 2022 |

Mouse hiding in cable tray cheesed off its bemused user

On Call Who knows where all those cables go anyway?

Systems19 Aug 2022 | 139

Supermicro pulls in a strong quarter thanks to rack-scale demand

More customers also adopting the server maker's green computing products, CEO says

On-Prem11 Aug 2022 |

Microsoft extends life of cloud servers from four to six years

Banks billions by making gear last even longer than AWS or Google

Off-Prem02 Aug 2022 | 24

India signs local server-maker to build nodes for home-grown supercomputers

Local manufacturer to build modest kit for modestly sized supers

HPC01 Aug 2022 | 2

Meta pours cash into servers and AI as ad revenue falls

Plus: Apple's iOS privacy changes 'weren't a factor' in Q2

Systems28 Jul 2022 | 8

Google Cloud growth slows, losses grow, bosses unworried

Server spend surges across Alphabet’s empire

Off-Prem27 Jul 2022 | 17

Intel’s smartNICs probably aren’t for you (yet) says Intel

'Right now, the focus is on the super-high volume'

Networks25 Jul 2022 | 6

What are server makers really doing to and for the climate?

They paint themselves as eco-saints, but the numbers tell another story

On-Prem18 Jul 2022 | 19

Intel plans chip price hikes due to 'inflationary pressures'

Customers to start paying more for CPUs, chipsets and other products from October

Systems14 Jul 2022 | 12

Arm in the cloud definitely a trend now with Google Cloud’s embrace

Comment Six of the world’s largest cloud service providers head on out with Arm arch

PaaS + IaaS14 Jul 2022 |

Farewell to Windows Server 20H2 and the Semi-Annual Channel

Can't do without new toys to play with on servers? There's always Azure Stack HCI

OSes13 Jul 2022 |

Your top 5 liquid cooling quandaries answered, according to Omdia

Liquid cooling has its advantages, but it's not for everyone, says analyst

On-Prem13 Jul 2022 | 7

IBM expands Power10 line-up with four new systems

Big Blue chases data-intensive and business-critical workloads, with pay-as-you-go consumption options

On-Prem12 Jul 2022 | 7

Inspur hot on liquid-cooled servers as part of quest for carbon neutrality

Cold plate tech to be deployed across entire portfolio, pledges China-based contract manufacturer

On-Prem07 Jul 2022 | 1

Micron releases DDR5 DRAM ready for next-gen servers

The memory chips are here, we're just waiting on Intel and AMD

Storage07 Jul 2022 | 2

Is a lack of standards holding immersion cooling back?

Comment There are just so many ways to deep fry your chips these days

On-Prem02 Jul 2022 | 20

China's clouds slow server buying – US clouds and Facebook may, too

Hyperscalers have ordered more than they need, and the ripples are nasty

Systems29 Jun 2022 |

Inspur joins Arm gang with 2U box running Ampere silicon

Arm ecosystem elbowing its way into third largest server vendor in the world

Systems24 Jun 2022 |

DRAM prices to drop 3-8% due to Ukraine war, inflation

Wait, we’ll explain

On-Prem20 Jun 2022 | 10

Intel offers 'server on a card' reference design for network security

RSA Conference OEMs thrown a NetSec Accelerator that plugs into server PCIe slots

Security08 Jun 2022 | 2

Ampere: Cloud biz buy-ins prove our Arm server CPUs are the real deal

Interview Startup teases 128+ core chip, disses Xeon and Epyc, unsurprisingly

Systems04 Jun 2022 | 8

Immersion cooling no longer reserved for the hyperscalers, HPC

With increasing density in a smaller footprint, small shops finally have datacenter dunking dibs

Systems01 Jun 2022 | 10

A peek into Gigabyte's GPU Arm for AI, HPC shops

High-performance platform choices are going beyond the ubiquitous x86 standard

Systems23 May 2022 | 5