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 | 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 |
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 |
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
AMD’s Xilinx-enhanced Epycs are right up the alley of datacenter builders Comment Same goes for Arm, for the same reason: Power efficiency AI + ML09 May 2022 | 3
AWS allows a Lenovo server to play in its on-prem AI video cloud Nvidia-powered ThinkEdge SE70 gets a view of the Panorama CCTV booster Edge + IoT06 May 2022 | 2
IBM outlines first major update to i OS for Power servers in three years Not to be confused with Apple iOS or Cisco IOS OSes04 May 2022 | 7
VMware walks back ban on booting vSphere from SD cards or thumb drives Updated But in future won't certify servers that allow booting from removable media Virtualization29 Apr 2022 | 14
VMware says server sprawl is back, and SmartNICs are the solution More details emerge about 'Project Monterey' and its role driving infrastructure workloads into hybrid clouds Virtualization27 Apr 2022 | 3
macOS Server discontinued after years on life support It's not like Apple was a player in the market since the demise of Xserve OSes22 Apr 2022 | 16
AMD: Our Epyc CPUs helped Mercedes win F1 Constructors' Championship Case study in why price-performance matters in server chips Systems20 Apr 2022 | 12
Alibaba Cloud's homegrown Arm CPUs emerge in VM trial Yitian 710 chip boasts 128 Armv9 cores, available to test PaaS + IaaS14 Apr 2022 | 4
Arm server chip maker Ampere says it's readying for an IPO Reveals confidential filing but no pricing ahead of review by the SEC Systems12 Apr 2022 |
Linux kernel patch from Google speeds up server shutdowns First world problems: Too many NVMe drives, not enough seconds to spare Storage29 Mar 2022 | 36
Inspur starts selling Chinese web giant's in-house servers JD.com's own servers, sold by the rackful, using cold plate cooling tech to tease possible 1.1 PUE Systems29 Mar 2022 | 2
Supermicro's 'universal GPU' system welcomes all elements Biz claims ultra-composable server platform is future-proof Systems21 Mar 2022 | 1
Epyc move: Micron shifts high-demand chip design apps to AMD Memory and storage maker skips over Intel this time Systems21 Mar 2022 | 3
Nutanix sees hardware availability driving software sales We found some servers? Quick: buy some software! Systems03 Mar 2022 |
Dell PC backlog woes strike again amid component shortfall Servers, storage parts challenges too, according to Q4 earnings call On-Prem25 Feb 2022 | 4
Into x86 servers? Apple seeks 'upbeat and hard-working' hardware engineer Strictly Intel and AMD for these hyperscale systems Systems07 Feb 2022 | 16
Amazon stretches working life of its servers an extra year, for AWS and its own ops Updated Cloud colossus accounts for lion's share of Amazonian profits Off-Prem04 Feb 2022 | 44
Google Cloud started running its servers for an extra year, still loses billions Parent company Alphabet hails first year of revenue above $250B PaaS + IaaS02 Feb 2022 | 47