Server

Equinix to close its 'Metal' IaaS offering in 2026

Joins the likes of HPE, Cisco, and VMware in failing to challenge dominant hyperscalers

Off-Prem18 Nov 2024 | 3

Microsoft 'resolves' and 'mitigates' Windows Server 2025 update whoopsie

No sign of 'rollback' yet

OSes11 Nov 2024 | 26

Microsoft still not said anything about unexpected Windows Server 2025 installs

Affected business calls situation 'mindbogglingly dangerous' as sysadmins reminded to check backup and restore strategies

OSes08 Nov 2024 | 36

Sysadmin shock as Windows Server 2025 installs itself after update labeling error

Screens sprayed with coffee after techies find Microsoft's latest OS in unexpected places

OSes06 Nov 2024 | 97

China Telecom's next 150,000 servers will mostly use local processors

Intel and AMD left scrapping over about a third of the deal, and license fees

Systems22 Oct 2024 | 3

The best use for those latest manycore chips? AI, say server vendors

Analysis PC makers might not be able to sell the idea - big iron has a better chance

On-Prem14 Oct 2024 | 1

Supermicro crams 18 GPUs into a 3U AI server that's a little slow by design

Can handle edge inferencing or run a 64 display command center

Systems09 Oct 2024 | 2

You're right not to rush into running AMD, Intel's new manycore monster CPUs

Opinion They put more risk in a single box than most of us are equipped to handle

Systems07 Oct 2024 | 43

Not just AI datacenters needing own power: Taiwanese server-maker Quanta has bought microgrids

California utilities couldn't deliver for hyperscalers' favorite hardware slinger

Systems04 Oct 2024 | 5

China trains 100-billion-parameter AI model on home grown infrastructure

Research institute seems to have found Huawei to do it – perhaps with Arm cores - despite sanctions

AI + ML02 Oct 2024 | 15

India flips the switch on three homebrew supercomputers

Rudra machines use local designs for server, interconnect, and cooling – but seemingly not a planned 96-core Arm CPU

HPC27 Sep 2024 | 1

Chinese server-maker Inspur claims it's on track for better liquid cooling with 'railway sleeper' design

Beijing is happy at surging sales and production capacity, falling energy requirements

Systems23 Sep 2024 | 3

Datacenters bleed watts and cash – all because they're afraid to flip a switch

Activate OS-level governors and power profiles, cut energy use by '25 – 50 percent'

On-Prem20 Sep 2024 | 20

Lenovo turns to India as source of AI servers

Another win for the Make In India policy, but a small one in terms of product volume

Systems19 Sep 2024 | 2

Dell's all-in bet on AI pays off in latest earnings

The term was mentioned over 140 times during the earnings call

Systems30 Aug 2024 | 8

Microsoft really wants those old Exchange 2016 servers put out to pasture

Come to 2019. The in-place upgrades to the Subscription Edition will be lovely

Software09 Aug 2024 | 39

Dell starts new round of layoffs while it looks to 'unlock modern AI'

HR apparently overwhelmed by attempt to sack 12.5K people in one day

Systems06 Aug 2024 | 21

AI boom is reshaping the face of cloud infrastructure

Analysis Capex skyrockets as providers prioritize new shiny over traditional server upgrades

Cloud Infrastructure Month04 Aug 2024 | 2

ASUS quietly built supercomputers, datacenters and an LLM. Now it's quietly selling them all together

The plan is a slow build – not a breakout into enterprise tech

Off-Prem13 Jun 2024 |

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