Server

Barclays snubs public cloud giants and hardware rivals for HPE GreenLake private cloud

Bank migrating thousands of apps and 100k+ workloads to new platform

On-Prem16 Dec 2021 | 29

Intel updates mysterious 'software-defined silicon' code in the Linux kernel

Update Yeah, right, Chipzilla: we totally believe your line this isn't a real plan, even though PCI supports it

On-Prem08 Dec 2021 | 51

Microsoft extends Secured-core concept to servers

Certifies hardware with malware-crimping spec, already common in PCs, for Azure Stack and Windows Server

Security08 Dec 2021 | 6

India reveals home-grown server that won't worry the leading edge

And a National Blockchain Strategy that calls for gov to host BaaS

Systems06 Dec 2021 | 6

Cisco tells UCS owners they may have a screw loose – in the server chassis

Power supplies are screwed up because they're not all screwed in

Systems01 Dec 2021 | 8

European server sales sink to 4-year low: Cloud, software-defined and chip shortage blamed

Double-digit declines in Germany, UK, France and 15 other countries

Systems09 Nov 2021 | 4

Weeks after Red Bee Media's broadcast centre fell over, Channel 4 is still struggling with subtitles

Updated Got a Disaster Recovery plan? Ever tested it? You probably should...

Systems19 Oct 2021 | 47

Big iron is out of fashion as server market shifts to low-end single-socket machines

IDC says AsiaPac market growing, rest of world isn't, Dell wins on volume, and IBM on sale price

Systems10 Sep 2021 | 3

IBM's first 7nm Power10 chip arrives in E1080 server system with a wealth of shiny features

Boasts of a world-record SAP SD benchmark result, 'transparent' in-memory encryption

Systems08 Sep 2021 | 18

Boffins say they've improved on algorithm for dynamic load balancing of server workloads

Not too soon, either. Levels of internet traffic seen in 2017 will have tripled by 2022

Systems07 Jul 2021 | 8

Indian businesses go on a server-buying spree, largely with HPE

Even non-x86 sales grew and SPARC is still selling — but storage sales slipped

On-Prem29 Jun 2021 |

Cloud builders hoover up 60% of ALL servers sold in 2020 as enterprise bit barns left to sweat

Are we at the tipping point? Does anyone care?

PaaS + IaaS19 Mar 2021 | 2

Equinix prepping to unleash 128-core Ampere Arm silicon in its 'Metal' not-quite-cloud

For now, you get Dell and Pure Storage-as-a-service and more metallic locations

Systems03 Mar 2021 |

India dangles billion-dollar incentive scheme for server, PC makers willing to open up shop on the sub-continent

Tablets also sought with call for top builders to diversify operations

Systems25 Feb 2021 | 6

AMD, Arm, non-Intel servers soar as overall market stalls

Dell and HPE in stasis as mid-range and high-end markets slide

Systems10 Dec 2020 | 4

Nvidia says microservices will drive a SmartNIC into every server

Posts sharp Q3 data centre growth and nice gaming numbers but has nothing to say about Arm

On-Prem19 Nov 2020 | 9

Cloudy hardware spending topped cash splashed on conventional data centre kit for first time in Q2, says IDC

Including private clouds, so let’s not go all ‘On-prem IT is dead’ just yet

On-Prem30 Sep 2020 | 1

Hyperscalers shopped for at least 540,000 extra servers, additional 75 exabytes of storage in Q2

Revenue dips regardless as big enterprise players struggle during lockdown

On-Prem09 Sep 2020 |

When those new servers you ordered aren't delivered, you probably won't order any more servers - and that's why India's market has shriveled

Except for IBM’s non-x86 boxes which have posted modest growth

Systems22 Jul 2020 |

Here's a headline we never thought we'd write 20 years ago: Microsoft readies antivirus for Linux, Android

Redmond knows a thing or two about tackling malware – amirite, Windows fans?!

OSes23 Jun 2020 | 38

Intel bets big on AI with third-gen Xeons tuned for deep learning, VMs, in-memory databases, analytics

There's also a Stratix FPGA designed with AI tasks in mind

On-Prem18 Jun 2020 |

Server and storage sales sickened in Q1 and not just because of you know what

IBM's server revenue grew rather nicely, but Lenovo's in a more-shipments-less-revenue trap

On-Prem10 Jun 2020 |

Tycoon malware rages through US schools, LG's boot problem, and QNAP admins had better get busy

Also: Cisco and Apple push out patches

OSes08 Jun 2020 | 4

China's Tencent to order ONE MILLION SERVERS as part of $70bn digital infrastructure splurge

Buying all the buzzwords: AI, 5G and Blockchain implementations promised

On-Prem29 May 2020 | 12

Salt peppered with holes? Automation tool vulnerable to auth bypass: Patch now

'The impact is full remote command execution as root on both master and all minions'

Security30 Apr 2020 | 5

Kerching! Intel PC chip shortage over just in time for everyone to buy computers for pandemic home working

Sales, profit soar in first three months of 2020 as coronavirus helps Chipzilla print money

Personal Tech23 Apr 2020 | 10

AMD takes another crack at Intel's server stronghold with more Epyc silicon

All 'the working from home and virtual desktops' might make you think about data center rebuilds, hmm?

Systems14 Apr 2020 | 13

Memcached has a crash-me bug, but hey, only about 83,000 public-facing servers appear to be running it

Yes, you may have detected some sarcasm

Security24 Mar 2020 | 5

Gods of cloud smiled on Chinese server makers in Q4, as mainframe punters chucked a big bone at IBM

Oh to be at the mercy of tech buyers at AWS, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Tencent, Alibaba... we could go on

Systems19 Mar 2020 | 3

Google reveals the wheels almost literally fell off one of its cloudy server racks

Crushed rollers sent rack into the red until techies solved wheely obscure problem

SaaS16 Mar 2020 | 102

Coronavirus to decimate server supply chain, analysts claim: Sales to fall 10% as factories stay shut

And it turns out there was an upside to the US-China trade war

Systems11 Feb 2020 | 13

AMD really, really wants you to know its chips are doing OK without any help from Intel and its supply issues

'We finished 2019 very strongly – but that is on the strength of the product portfolio' says CEO Lisa Su

On-Prem29 Jan 2020 | 20

*David Attenborough voice* And here we have, in the wild, a rare glimpse... of what may be... a positive IBM quarter

Big Blue rides Red Hat into the black

Software22 Jan 2020 | 22

Beware the three-finger-salute, or 'How I Got The Keys To The Kingdom'

On Call With great power comes great irresponsibility

OSes27 Dec 2019 | 77

Cops storm Nginx's Moscow offices after a Russian biz claims it owns world's most widely used web server, not F5

Rambler claims code creator was working for them at the time and so they own tech worth $700m

Software12 Dec 2019 | 54

It's 2019, and Windows PCs can be pwned via a shortcut file, a webpage, an evil RDP server...

Patch Tuesday Microsoft joins Adobe and SAP in cleaning up security bugs, two of which are under active attack

OSes10 Sep 2019 | 10

The NetCAT is out of the bag: Intel chipset exploited to sniff SSH passwords as they're typed over the network

Video Cunning data-snooping side-channel technique is tough to exploit, Chipzilla warns

Security10 Sep 2019 | 69

Rome wasn't built in a day, wasn't teased in a day, either: AMD's 7nm second-gen 64-core Epyc server chips finally land

Updated After what feels like months of drip-fed info, here comes some much needed competition in the data center world

On-Prem07 Aug 2019 | 32

Years late to the SMB1-killing party, Samba finally dumps the unsafe file-sharing protocol version by default

Although you can still use it if you like the thrill of danger

Software09 Jul 2019 | 51

A patchy Apache a-patchin: HTTP server gets fix for worrying root access hole

Rogue 'worker' processes can sneak in with elevated privileges at startup

Security03 Apr 2019 | 10

Intel: Let's talk about SGX, baby. Let's talk about 2U and me. Let's talk about all the good things, and the bad...

RSA Chipzilla rips sticker off its graphics accelerator, switches off GPU – now you're a security wizard, Harry!

Security27 Feb 2019 | 4

It's now 2019, and your Windows DHCP server can be pwned by a packet, IE and Edge by a webpage, and so on

Patch Tuesday Hefty load from Microsoft, Adobe, with special guest star Cisco

OSes13 Feb 2019 | 77

Intel to finally scatter remaining ashes of Itanium to the wind in 2021: Final call for doomed server CPU line

Chipzilla sets final date for the sinking of the Itanic

Systems01 Feb 2019 | 67

Intel boss: Expect chip shortages into mid-2019, stumbling server processor sales this year

Chipzilla laments weak IoT, looming server gloom, still promises 10nm proper by Q4

Systems25 Jan 2019 | 17

The BMC in OpenBMC stands for 'Burglarize My Computer' – thanks to irritating security flaw

Pantsdown vulnerability affects various BMC stacks as well as OpenBMC on systems using two particular Aspeed chips

Systems24 Jan 2019 | 21

Oh, SSH, IT please see this: Malicious servers can fsck with your PC's files during scp slurps

Data transfer tools caught not checking what exactly they're downloading

Security15 Jan 2019 | 32

3 is the magic number (of bits): Flip 'em at once and your ECC protection can be Rowhammer'd

Dutch boffins prove it is possible to evade memory-busting attack mitigations

Security21 Nov 2018 | 28

You dirty DRAC: IT bods uncover Dell server firmware security slip

Weakness not easy to leverage, but iDRAC exploit would mean game over for admins

Security03 Oct 2018 | 18

Shrinking shipments, hidden money: IDC studies the martial art of EMEA server market

Sucks up $4bn in Q2 alone

Systems02 Oct 2018 |

Supermicro wraps crypto-blanket around server firmware to hide it from malware injectors

BMC software updates to check code signatures after researchers hit red alert

Security07 Sep 2018 | 12

Oracle: Run, don't walk, to patch this critical Database takeover bug

Flaw in House Larry's flagship product allows 'complete compromise' of servers

Databases14 Aug 2018 | 11

Intel: Yeah, yeah, 10nm. It's on the todo list. Now, let's talk about AI...

Optane DC persistent memory ships to Google, Xeon roadmap, and more revealed

Systems08 Aug 2018 | 26

Big(ish) Blue: IBM sales creep up four per cent, share price follows suit

Cloud and security big winners in Q2 while Cognitive sags

On-Prem19 Jul 2018 | 5

June 2018, and Windows Server can be pwned with a DNS request

Cortana also a little too eager to carry out commands

OSes12 Jun 2018 | 25

White box server makers flounder BUT big brands shine

Data centre spending explodes, fuelled by hyperscale cloud, on-prem refreshes, soaring DRAM

Systems11 Jun 2018 | 7

Epyc fail? We can defeat AMD's virtual machine encryption, say boffins

Updated Evil hypervisors can lift plaintext info out of ciphered memory, it is claimed

Security25 May 2018 | 50