Server

Apple built custom servers and OS for its AI cloud

WWDC Mashup of iOS and macOS runs on homebrew silicon, with precious little for sysadmins to scry

Off-Prem11 Jun 2024 | 12

Lenovo loses its Infrastructure Solutions Group boss

The long and largely unsuccessful effort to turn IBM's x86 server business into consistent profit continues

Systems07 Jun 2024 | 1

HPE Q2 sales rise was brought to you by the letters A and I

Shipments of servers used for artificial intelligence jump more than 100% to $900M, share price up double digits

AI + ML05 Jun 2024 |

Blame the SSD price hike on enterprise demand for AI servers

Samsung, SK, Kioxia and others make bank, booking double digit bounces in Q1 revenue

Storage30 May 2024 |

Infineon promises 12kW PSUs for next generation of power-hungry AI servers

How else are you going to feed all those 1,000-plus watt GPUs?

Systems28 May 2024 | 11

Arm servers are on Nutanix's long-range radar, not yet its to-do list

Next CTO waiting for major OEMs to get on board, but when/if that happens it'll be game on ... perhaps for AI

Systems23 May 2024 | 2

Google now 'third-largest' in datacenter processors

Updated Custom silicon mounting up, says report from semiconductor researcher TechInsights

Systems21 May 2024 |

Alibaba Yitian 710 rated fastest Arm server CPU in the cloud (for now)

Researcher finds it beats Intel's Xeons for speed on one database-related tests, joins AWS Gravitons in cost-efficiency win

Off-Prem29 Apr 2024 | 6

45 Drives adds Linux-powered mini PCs, workstations to growing compute lineup

Exclusive Plus the system builder says an Arm-based system is already in the works

Systems26 Apr 2024 | 10

China's mega-telcos are spending billions on AI servers

China Mobile alone wants almost 8,000 machines

Systems24 Apr 2024 | 8

Banned Nvidia GPUs sneak into sanction-busting Chinese servers

Graphics giant and partners say they're clean – it's all technically legit

Systems23 Apr 2024 | 4

More than a third of enterprise datacenters expect to deploy liquid cooling by 2026

Survey Which one of you is already running 100-plus kilowatt racks?

On-Prem22 Apr 2024 | 2

HPE sues China's Inspur Group over server patents

Middle Kingdom biz accused of IP theft and changing names to evade sanctions

Systems18 Apr 2024 | 1

Dell shaves months off lead times for GPU-powered AI servers

TSMC turns advanced packaging production knob to 11

HPC11 Apr 2024 | 2

PCIe 7.0 first official draft lands, doubling bandwidth yet again

Analysis The downside? You probably won't see kit to use it until 2027

Systems03 Apr 2024 | 13

Cloudflare says it has automated empathy to avoid fixing flaky hardware too often

'Error budget' and other server maintenance/site reliability secrets revealed

Off-Prem26 Mar 2024 | 14

One rack. 120kW of compute. Taking a closer look at Nvidia's DGX GB200 NVL72 beast

GTC 1.44 exaFLOPs of FP4, 13.5 TB of HBM3e, 2 miles of NVLink cables, in one liquid cooled unit

Systems21 Mar 2024 | 22

Olympic-level server tossing contest seeks entrants – warranty voiding guaranteed

It's geeks gone wild

Bootnotes06 Mar 2024 | 16

Nvidia now plays kingmaker in the server court, says Omdia

AI's appetite for compute means general refreshes stalled as customer used budgets elsewhere

On-Prem05 Mar 2024 | 1

French cloud Scaleway starts renting Alibaba's RISC-V SoC

€15.99/month server offered with Ubuntu or Debian, and a zero percent Service Level Agreement

Systems04 Mar 2024 | 7

Dell share price jumps 16% on mention of AI server backlog

Not bad considering exec had said '2024 didn't go as planned' due to declining overall sales

On-Prem01 Mar 2024 | 9

Lenovo to offer certified refurbished PCs and servers

Updated Running proof of concepts to pick out the right models

On-Prem01 Mar 2024 | 23

HPE blames GPU shortage for contributing to unexpected sales slide

Even when Nvidia delivers, customers struggle to get datacenters ready to handle the heat

On-Prem01 Mar 2024 | 4

Oxide reimagines private cloud as... a 2,500-pound blade server?

Analysis Rackscale system can be had with up to 2,048 cores, 32TB of RAM, and nearly a petabyte of flash

On-Prem16 Feb 2024 | 38

Nginx web server forked as Freenginx to escape corporate overlords

Project hails from its original motherland of Russia

Applications16 Feb 2024 | 20

Amazon extends the life of its servers to six years, expects $900m benefit in 90 days

Cloud optimization efforts ebb, and migrations resume

Off-Prem02 Feb 2024 | 16

Deep Green gets £200M from power supplier to scale waste heat reuse

Octopus Energy wants to back server-cooling, district heating projects

On-Prem16 Jan 2024 | 17

Lenovo leaps into AI limelight with Intel's Emerald Rapids

Incoming datacenter chips will power new ThinkAgile, ThinkSystem boxes

Systems15 Dec 2023 | 1

Thirty-nine weeks: That's how long you'll be waiting for an AI server from Dell

Revenue and net income down, server market flickers, PCs fail to ignite

On-Prem01 Dec 2023 | 22

HPE targets enterprises with Nvidia-powered platform for tuning AI

HPE Discover EMEA 'We feel like enterprises are either going to become AI powered, or they're going to become obsolete'

On-Prem30 Nov 2023 | 5

Server sales down 31% at HPE as enterprises hack spending

Customers still 'digesting' shipments bought in 2022, says exec in mixed fiscal year for hardware biz

On-Prem29 Nov 2023 | 12

Epyc 3 ain't done yet – AMD extends availability to 2026, unleashes six more SKUs

Three-year-old cores, but hey – they're cheap, relatively speaking

Systems07 Nov 2023 | 2

Ampere leads a pack of AI startups to challenge Nvidia's 'unsustainable' GPUs

AI Platform Alliance probably has Jensen Huang in tears...of laughter

AI + ML18 Oct 2023 | 2

Cloudflare exiles baseboard management controller from its server motherboards

Puts Datacenter-ready Secure Control Modules to work in boxen built by Lenovo

Systems17 Oct 2023 | 1

Chinese CPUs to feature in servers made by sanctioned Russian company

Beijing appears to have lifted its ban on Loongson processors reaching Moscow

Systems17 Oct 2023 | 15

Red Hat retires mailing list, leaving Linux loyalists to read between the lines

Comment Email is just so 20th century

OSes11 Oct 2023 | 33

Cat accused of wiping US Veteran Affairs server info after jumping on keyboard

Exclusive US govt confirms outage, leaves feline in quantum state of uncertainty

Public Sector05 Oct 2023 | 96

Facing a 30% price rise to park servers in a colo? Blame AI

Amygdala analogues are hogging all the rackspace

On-Prem25 Sep 2023 | 3

Dell allows DPUs to be retrofitted to older PowerEdge servers

As VMware emits a significant update to the vSphere suite that wrangles the accelerators

Systems25 Sep 2023 | 2

Nvidia's 900 tons of GPU muscle bulks up server market, slims down wallets

Fewer boxes shipped, but with 8 H100s apiece, revenue is up amid AI frenzy

Systems19 Sep 2023 | 4

37 Signals says cloud repatriation plan has already saved it $1 million

CTO David Heinemeier Hansson reckons he’s on track to hit $10 million over five years

On-Prem18 Sep 2023 | 53

Cloud is here to stay, but customers are starting to question the cost

Feature 'Hyperscalers made it sound like it was all self-service, in reality it was not'

Cloud Infrastructure Month11 Sep 2023 | 26

Toyota servers ran out of storage, crashed production at 14 plants in Japan

Oh, what a foul-up as database maintenance created a mess

On-Prem07 Sep 2023 | 58

Dell and Samsung grab first-class tickets for AI hype train

Stock prices shoot up thanks to tech flavor of the moment

AI + ML01 Sep 2023 | 6

Misfiring Lenovo hires Ford director to help with revamp

Hold onto your hats people, Lenovo to invest $1B in AI as hardware sales falter

On-Prem21 Aug 2023 | 10

Let's play... Force off the power to someone else's datacenter systems

DEF CON Trellix bods say it's not that hard to do, thanks to these vulnerabilities

Black Hat and DEF CON12 Aug 2023 | 14

Digital Realty: We hear you like your racks dense, how does 70kW sound?

What else do you do when a single GPU node needs 10kW?

On-Prem08 Aug 2023 | 6

Another thing you can blame AI for: Cloud grows but server shipments are down

Investment shifts to meet demand, say analysts. And demand is based on FOMO. WCGW?

Systems07 Aug 2023 | 1

Out of nowhere, India requires PC and server makers to get an import license

This is one way to kickstart local manufacturing

On-Prem04 Aug 2023 | 21

Meltdown avoided: Intel rediscovers profitability

Pat on the back for Pat who's back in the black after getting costs whacked and demand stacked

On-Prem28 Jul 2023 | 2

Inspur warns of profit plunge as sanctions bite

Cites 'tight supply' of certain silicon – the sort of stuff that makes servers interesting

On-Prem14 Jul 2023 | 2

HPE prepares for spicy affair with India to churn out $1B worth of servers

Middle Kingdom suddenly a less appealing destination for manufacturing

On-Prem06 Jul 2023 | 4

Server shipments fall ... just as AI drives demand for costlier kit

Conflicting feedback makes 2023 an especially difficult year to predict

PaaS + IaaS27 Jun 2023 | 3

AWS makes its hybrid cloud behave a bit more like normal, boring, on-prem servers

At last you can pick a dedicated host to run your Amazonian workload

Sysadmin Month21 Jun 2023 | 5

How do you boost server efficiency? Buy new kit, keep it busy

Increase in efficiency between 2017 and 2019 hardware is 34% for Intel servers, 140% for AMD, claims report

On-Prem09 Jun 2023 | 17

AWS teases mysterious mil-spec 'Snowblade' server

Hybrid cloud hardware capable of running 208 vCPUs and a handful of cloud services while living on the edge

On-Prem07 Jun 2023 | 12