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
Foxconn is ecstatic you're all going gaga for AI servers Keep that hype train rolling, please AI + ML01 Jun 2023 | 1
Nvidia creates open server spec to house its own chips – and the occasional x86 Computex Taiwan's big OEMs are all-in on plan to build servers that won't cook when running AI Systems29 May 2023 | 3
It's time for IT teams, vendors to prioritize efficiency; here's where they should start Hint: Greener gear is only the half of it Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week16 May 2023 | 5
To quench AI's thirst, the way we build, operate datacenters needs to change AI infrastructure isn't just hot and power hungry, it's uses a prodigous amount of water researchers tell El Reg Emerging Clean Energy Tech Week15 May 2023 | 7
Some potential: How bad software updates could over-volt, brick remote servers Video PMFault – from the eggheads who brought you Plundervolt and Voltpillager Cyber-crime15 May 2023 | 3
UK monopoly watchdog gives Broadcom-VMware probe a tight timetable If the news is bad for chip giant, a remedy will need to be found very quickly indeed Virtualization24 Apr 2023 | 3
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 | 6
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 | 72
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 | 134
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 | 138
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 |