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| 10 things you can do to give old servers a second life
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| Some of your old servers may be ready for retirement, but others can still play a useful role in your shop. Network manager Louis Nel suggests various ways to turn a potential doorstop into a valuable piece of equipment.
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| Aberdeen Stirling 229
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| The Aberdeen Stirling 229 2U is a hardware Clydesdale with excellent benchmark test numbers, a five-year warranty, and a 30-day money-back guarantee.
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February 22, 2008 |
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| Acer Completes Gateway Share Purchase
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| Acer Inc. has acquired over 90 percent of outstanding shares of Gateway Inc., paving the way for completion of the deal.
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October 11, 2007 |
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| ADI to Distribute HP MediaSmart Products
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| MediaSmart TVs, servers and extenders complement Media Center lineup that includes Russound and Niveus.
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March 14, 2008 |
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| AMD anoints Accelerated Computing chief
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| AMD has hired former MIPS CTO Mike Uhler to spearhead efforts around co-processors.
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December 10, 2007 |
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| AMD launches Dell's four-core Opteron boxes
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| Dell's Opteron experience hasn't been all that fantastic. After resisting the Opteron push for so long, Dell embraced AMD's flashy chip just as Intel started to catch up on performance and performance per watt metrics with Xeon.
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April 16, 2008 |
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| AMD's Barcelona Server Chip on Schedule
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| Advanced Micro Devices says its "Barcelona" quad-core Opteron processor will ship in August, as planned.
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June 29, 2007 |
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| AMD's Opteron goes to 3.2GHz
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| AMD is trying to breath new life into its dual-core Opteron by upping the chip to 3.2GHz just weeks before Barcelona rolls on store shelves.
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August 6, 2007 |
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| AMD, Cray and reporter in Barcelona caper
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| Cray started this mess yesterday by saying that component delays would cause it to miss the planned fourth quarter ship date for a revamped version of its XT4 supercomputer.
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June 5, 2007 |
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| Apache Digital Corporation
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| Apache Digital sells high-performance computer servers, workstations, and Internet Service Provider Turnkey Systems.
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| Azul Upgrades Vega 'Computing Appliance'
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| Azul Systems is doubling the capacity of its Vega 2 "computing appliance," a device that uses multiple multicore CPUs for large-scale computing.
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June 14, 2007 |
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| Barclays Selects HP to Become First in Europe to Roll Out Dynamic Smart Cooling for New Energy-efficient Data Center
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| HP and Barclays today announced that they have signed a letter of intent to introduce HP technology that is expected to significantly reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions associated with Barclays’ new major data center in Gloucester, U.K.
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March 13, 2008 |
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| Benchmarking and tuning Apache servers
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| Apache is the number one Web server running on Linux systems. There are a number of little things that can be done to tune Apache performance and to lessen its impact on system resources.
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| Blade Servers for Small Businesses
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| If you're drooling over the advances in the world of blade servers, wishing you could afford a rack or two of them, that day may arrive sooner than you think. Looking to replace the jumble of servers stacked in the storage closet, er, server room? Don't have a fancy raised floor and heavy duty air conditioner? No problem.
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October 11, 2007 |
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| Blades carve up Top 500 supercomputers list
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| With much anticipated fanfare, the Top500 Supercomputer list was announced last week at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany.
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July 5, 2007 |
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| Build a Windows Home Server
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| It's an age old question in computing: Where do you store your files? For most home users, the answer is simple: on a PC hard disk.
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December 18, 2007 |
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| Chip start-up could ignite Blade PCs
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| Living the PC lifestyle sans the space heater.
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June 6, 2007 |
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| Dell boots disks and fires up streamed PCs
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| Forget thin clients and blade PCs. Dell will do the virtual desktop thing in its own, less than radical way.
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October 10, 2007 |
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| Dell in data-center-servicing three-way
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| Dell will accept any old reason for jumping onto its data center service wagons and sniffing around your machinery.
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February 13, 2008 |
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| Dell paddles 'blade everything' HP
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| The "new" Dell apparently includes an ample helping of feistiness. The hardware maker has slung an aggressive attack against HP's blade server strategy via the corporate blog.
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July 19, 2007 |
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| Dell quads up single-socket rockets
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| Dell today is selling two new single-socket servers with speedy quad-core chips and copious memory capacity for small businesses.
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March 18, 2008 |
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| Dell Revamps PowerEdge Servers
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| Bringing Intel's latest Penryn chip to its servers, Dell on Monday is expected to revamp the PowerEdge line of servers with new hardware and nomenclature to identify servers.
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November 12, 2007 |
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| Dell Stuffs Barcelona into its PowerEdge Line
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| For AMD, it's another major OEM picking up its quad-core Opteron chip.
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April 15, 2008 |
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| Dell to stuff hypervisors in flash memory
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| A rather nimble Dell looks set to rattle the server market later this year by embedding the core virtualization code of a prominent software maker in flash memory.
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August 7, 2007 |
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| Dell unleashes blades of fury
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| Rivals and readers perform dissection.
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January 28, 2008 |
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| Dell's new blade server takes M1000e moniker
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| The Texas-based hardware maker has long threatened to reenter the blade server game with a more competitive product. And now we learn that it's already reaching out to customers with the M1000e – a 10U chassis that will hold 16 blade servers.
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October 9, 2007 |
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| Dell's Soviet style two-year plan results in fresh blade servers
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| Dell 2.0 is full of surprises. For example, the hardware maker today unveiled the HP C-Class blade server chassis - its third take on the blade design.
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January 21, 2008 |
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| EPA releases Energy Star guidelines for servers
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| The agency has laid the groundwork for later establishment of power-supply efficiency, power- and temperature-measurement, and power-management and -virtualization requirements.
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April 3, 2008 |
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| Ex-Transmeta CEO Ditzel joins - wait for it - Intel
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| Our sources reveal that Intel acquired Ditzel as a member of the Digital Enterprise Group (DEG), which tackles both server and PC products. Ditzel will work with Stephen Pawlowski, an Intel senior fellow and CTO of DEG. Beyond that, we know little about Intel's exact plans for El Ditz.
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March 8, 2008 |
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| Four-core Opteron fiasco crushes Cray's 2007
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| The supercomputer maker today warned that its midpoint forecast for 2007 revenue has been lowered to $200m from previous guidance last month of $230m. The revenue drop comes as a result of delayed XT4 system shipments and could result in Cray posting a loss for the year.
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June 4, 2007 |
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| Fresh Xeon to rough up twittering Opteron
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| War breaks out between imaginary chips.
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September 19, 2007 |
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| Fujitsu and friends arm four-core Opteron servers
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| Fujitsu Siemens Computers (FSC) is the latest hardware vendor to punt servers loaded with AMD`s four-core Opteron processor chip, which finally hit the channel -- following months of production delays -- last week.
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April 17, 2008 |
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| Fujitsu sharpens blade server
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| Fujitsu Computer Systems flashed its latest energy-efficient, better I/O performance blade server and chassis in the hope of cutting customers loose from market leaders HP and IBM.
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June 27, 2007 |
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| Hewlett-Packard Fires Up New PC Blades
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| HP, which also rolled out updates to its thin-client PCs in January, is looking to offer a better desktop experience for workers with the revamped CCI hardware and software as well as increasing management capabilities for IT administrators.
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June 11, 2007 |
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| Hitachi Blades Go Virtual
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| Hitachi is adding virtualization capabilities to its Xeon-based blades for the first time.
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September 18, 2007 |
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| Hitachi to Exit Home PC Business, Refocus on Servers
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| The company barely shipped half a million units worldwide between March 2006 and March 2007, with only 130,000 of them ending up in homes, according to Asahi Shimbun.
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October 23, 2007 |
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| How to improve your data center operations
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| Inspect your 'emergency power off' situation.
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February 11, 2008 |
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| HP Advances Flexibility, Efficiency of Blades Across the Data Center
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| HP today announced virtualization and power management technologies that help customers streamline IT operations to realize dramatic cost savings, increased flexibility and improved energy efficiency.
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November 12, 2007 |
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| HP Boosts Blade Servers for Midsize Businesses
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| Despite rack servers' lead over blades in terms of market sales, IT giant Hewlett-Packard touts the blade as "the future of servers" for the midsize market. During the recent launch of the HP BladeSystem c3000, dubbed "Shorty," meant to address the Global 500,000, Sreehivas Narayanan, regional business manager for industry standard servers at HP Southeast Asia, said the new blade system is "the way for all SMBs to deploy their servers."
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October 8, 2007 |
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| HP Brings Power and Flexibility of Blade Workstations to MCAD Market
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| HP today unveiled the HP Blade Workstation Solution for the mechanical computer-aided design (MCAD) market, HP’s centralized workstation architecture that is now tested and certified to provide secure, real-time, interactive access to 3D CAD applications and data – from virtually anywhere.
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April 29, 2008 |
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| HP Debuts Workstations for Digital Content Creators, Joins DreamWorks in NAB Keynote Address
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| HP today announced the immediate availability of two performance-boosted versions of its high-end personal workstation computers for digital content professionals in the broadcast, film/video post-production, animation and graphic arts industries.
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April 14, 2008 |
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| HP Drives Growing Worldwide Adoption of Workstation Technology, Unveils Two Quad-core Models
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| One year after delivering its first workstations based on Quad-Core Intel® Xeon™ processors, HP said customers are experiencing performance increases of up to 400 percent, with double-digit gains in productivity and faster return on investment.
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November 7, 2007 |
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| HP Earns Top Environmental Rating for Entire Workstation Line
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| HP today announced that its entire personal workstation line has become the first in the category to achieve a “Gold” listing – the highest rating products can achieve – in the Electronic Products Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT™).
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April 1, 2008 |
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| HP Enhances Blade PC Solution to Deliver True Desktop Experience for Business Customers
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| HP today introduced its third generation Consolidated Client Infrastructure (CCI) solution, which enables businesses to deploy blade PCs to their full range of traditional desktop users while delivering a true PC experience.
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June 11, 2007 |
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| HP Expands BladeSystem Portfolio with Integrity Blade for Large Data Center Workloads
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| HP has expanded the HP BladeSystem portfolio with an Integrity blade designed to handle memory-intensive data center workloads while helping businesses lower cost, save energy and space, and decrease deployment time.
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February 12, 2008 |
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| HP Expands Virtualization Capabilities of HP ProLiant Servers with Support of Industry-leading Partners
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| HP today announced technologies that integrate virtualization capabilities into the HP ProLiant server platform, allowing customers to rapidly and simply virtualize their server environments.
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March 20, 2008 |
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| HP Expands Virtualization Options for Blades
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| The OEM adds Scalent to its list of virtualization partners as it expands the capabilities of its systems.
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November 27, 2007 |
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| HP Gains on IBM in Server Revenue
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| IDC finds that while HP and IBM continued to battle it out, worldwide server revenues hit $54 billion in 2007, the highest since 2001.
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February 27, 2008 |
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| HP injects blade PCs with fresh Athlons
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| HP has delivered a much needed refresh to its blade PC product line, upgrading the hardware and graphics performance of the systems.
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June 14, 2007 |
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| HP intros midrange, easy-on-the-grid servers
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| Hewlett-Packard is expanding its midsection today, with various hardware and software additions made to its wares for those companies sized between the fantastic and wee.
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March 31, 2008 |
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| HP MediaSmart Server (EX470)
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| The HP MediaSmart Server is a well-executed example of what a Microsoft Windows Home Server can be. All of WHS's backup and management features are leveraged, and HP has added media-serving smarts of its own in the form of an iTunes server.
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January 9, 2008 |
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| HP Offers Two New Unified Communications Solutions for HP BladeSystem
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| HP today introduced two unified communications (UC) solutions hosted on the HP BladeSystem to help businesses manage multiple communication tools within a single, consolidated platform.
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November 1, 2007 |
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| HP out and proud with 8-socket server beast
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| HP has jumped back into the beefy 8-socket x86 server game with the new ProLiant DL785 G5.
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March 17, 2008 |
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| HP Picks Intel Chip for Quad-core Servers
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| HP's new server is based on Intel's Tigerton quad-core Xeon processor.
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September 6, 2007 |
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| HP ProLiant DL380 G5
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| The HP ProLiant series has been the standard in servers for over a decade, and the DL380 G5 upholds that tradition.
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February 22, 2008 |
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| HP releases new quad-core Intel servers
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| HP has released new servers based on the new Quad-Core Intel Xeon 7300 processor series, targeted at customers running data-intensive business applications such as databases, business intelligence, ERP, and large mail and messaging platforms in virtualized environments.
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September 28, 2007 |
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| HP Updates Blade Workstation Offering
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| The HP xw460c is geared for users in the computer-aided design field.
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April 30, 2008 |
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| HP wants to get physical with virtual servers
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| HP refuses to let its software partners enjoy all of the virtualization glory. The company today announced a broad virtualization management package that will see HP tread on the toes of partners such as VMware and start-ups such as Scalent.
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March 18, 2008 |
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| HP Unveils Servers for Small Businesses
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| The 1U HP ProLiant DL160 G5 and 2U ProLiant DL 180 G5 are sister products to the enterprise-level DL360 and the DL380, according to HP's server and storage VP Paul Miller. These are Intel-powered boxes, with the accompanying DL165 G5 and DL185 G5 housing AMD chips.
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January 14, 2008 |
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| HP's graphics library goes GPL
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| Visualize Xen love and penguin per use too.
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August 6, 2007 |
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| Hyper-V release candidate due for availability today
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| When Microsoft really is on track with something, it likes to march to a very loud drumbeat. This time, it appears the Hyper-V virtualization platform project is going well, and with the latest milestone, the company's trumpets are blaring.
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March 19, 2008 |
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| IBM Data Centers Moving to Mainframes
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| IBM is replacing 3900 servers in its data centers with 30 energy-saving mainframe computers.
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August 1, 2007 |
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| IBM explores 67.1m-core computer for running entire internet
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| We'll hand it to IBM's researchers. They think big - really big. Like holy-crap-what-have-you-done big.
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February 5, 2008 |
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| IBM floats 'Blue Cloud' data servers
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| Giving a nod to the privacy concerns of enterprise customers, IBM today is launching Blue Cloud, a "cloud computing" manifestation enabling companies run data-intensive Web 2.0-class applications directly with their own data centers.
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November 15, 2007 |
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| IBM goes big green with Big Green
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| IBM has announced it is redirecting $1bn per year across its businesses to increase the energy efficiency of IT operations.
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May 22, 2007 |
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| IBM hands server tech to Lenovo
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| Tech giant IBM has inked a licensing agreement with Lenovo that will see the Chinese computer vendor making and selling a range of x86 servers.
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January 24, 2008 |
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| IBM Hints at Blade Servers for Small Firms
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| IBM said it plans to build a blade server system for small to medium-sized businesses.
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May 25, 2007 |
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| IBM launches 16-core processor server
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| IBM has announced a version of its System i business server range that uses the company's Power6 processor, which the tech giant claims is the fastest chip it has ever built.
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July 27, 2007 |
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| IBM launches MySpace for mainframes
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| IBM aims to leverage social networking by building an online meeting place for users of its System z mainframes. It says the Web-based portal, called Destination z, gives customers a place to discuss and debate mainframe usage, exchange ideas and seek technical advice.
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June 22, 2007 |
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| IBM Launches z10 Mainframe
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| IBM Tuesday is set to launch the System z10, its next-generation mainframe, featuring quad-core processors and aimed at computing-intensive tasks.
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February 26, 2008 |
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| IBM lines up blade, AIX updates
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| IBM will sprinkle more greenery around its big computing offerings this week as it launches long-awaited updates to AIX and its Power-based server line.
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November 6, 2007 |
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| IBM Looks to 'Cheetah' to Speed Up Blade Servers
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| IBM officials hope a new feature aimed at increasing performance and availability of applications using Informix Dynamic Server "Cheetah" in a multi-node, blade server environment will separate the upcoming release from the pack.
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May 18, 2007 |
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| IBM Offering New Cell-Based Blade
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| IBM is expanding its Cell processor technology within the enterprise.
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August 30, 2007 |
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| IBM Offers Blade Server For the Little Guy
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| IBM is adding to its blade server line with an upcoming model targeted at small-to-medium-sized businesses.
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June 13, 2007 |
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| IBM Readies Blade Servers for Small Businesses
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| High-density blade bundles will be designed for small and midsize businesses.
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May 2, 2007 |
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| IBM Revs Up Autonomic Computing for Data Centers
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| Active Energy Manager leverages autonomic capabilities for a green solution.
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November 7, 2007 |
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| IBM Sets Its Sights on SMBs with New Blade
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| IBM wants small and midsized businesses to know that blade servers are an option for their IT infrastructure, too.
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June 14, 2007 |
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| IBM Tackles Enterprise Data Integration
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| IBM introduced IBM Information Server Blade, an appliance-like bundle designed to make the task of enterprise data integration faster and easier.
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August 6, 2007 |
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| IBM Turns Server Sideways for Web 2.0 Build-out
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| IBM has designed a new type of rack-mount server specifically for companies running heavily trafficked "Web 2.0" sites such as Facebook and MySpace, the company announced Wednesday.
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April 23, 2008 |
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| IBM users tell of mainframe gains and datacenter pains
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| "Until now, a lot of people wouldn't even think about consolidating Unix servers on a mainframe. The cost just seemed too high," concurred one user, who manages the z10's predecessor -- the z9 -- in his job at a big international bank.
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February 27, 2008 |
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| IBM Wants the Mainframe to be an IT Destination
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| With that in mind, IBM launched its Destination z program June 21, which looks to give the company's mainframe customers, ISVs and partners a new Web portal to discuss and debate different aspects of mainframe technology.
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June 21, 2007 |
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| IBM waterboards PA-RISC Superdome from HP
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| Power6 charged with crimes against hamster wheels.
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March 21, 2008 |
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| IBM waves green magic wand
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| IBM has beefed up its data output while apparently watching its carbon footprint step by adding a new $86m "green data centre" space to its Boulder site in Colorado, USA.
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June 25, 2007 |
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| IBM's Power6 spotted bashing Oracle at 4.7GHz
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| The speedy chips confirm IBM's boasting that Power6 would arrive near 5GHz. They also show that IBM's customers have a lot to look forward to in terms of raw performance.
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May 20, 2007 |
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| IBM, HP Remain Locked in Server Battle
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| In its latest survey of the server market, Gartner found that IBM led all other vendors in terms of revenue in the second quarter of 2007, while HP shipped more servers than any other OEM.
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August 22, 2007 |
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| Integrators DO Like Sony's All-in-One NHS Rack System
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| High-volume integrators in the Authorized Integrators Network (AIN) appreciate system's simplicity; builders like the brand.
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February 27, 2008 |
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| Intel focuses on small, medium businesses with Xeon-based modular server approach
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| Based on its Multi-Flex management and storage technology, Intel claims its modular approach will allow resellers to get closer to the core IT infrastructure of their customers.
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January 11, 2008 |
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| Intel Releases Low-Cost Clear Bay Server Platform
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| Intel has developed a white-box blade server based on standardized components, instead of specialized parts usually used to produce such systems.
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January 11, 2008 |
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| Intel shoves Larrabee and visualization goldmine to 2010
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| Physically, we were sitting yesterday in an auditorium at Intel's Santa Clara headquarters. But our mind kept transporting to SGI's old 3D wonder lab where it would show off the latest in graphics technology and high-end visualization systems.
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March 6, 2008 |
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| Intel swallows Itanic Java pill
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| It's a tough job. Convincing Java developers that any hardware vendor - let alone Intel in the wake of roadmap set backs - has any immediate relevance.
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May 10, 2007 |
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| Intel targets data center energy efficiency with new server processors
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| The quad-core L5420 and L5410 processors run at 2.50 GHz and 2.33 GHz, respectively, and contain 12 megabytes of on-die cache and dedicated 1333 MHz front side buses.
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March 25, 2008 |
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| Intel wants to get into heavy petascaling
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| Intel may dominate the list of top supercomputers, but the most intriguing work done in the high performance computing field takes place outside of the Xeon kingdom. Pat Gelsinger, Intel's server chip chief, plans on fixing this problem.
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March 23, 2008 |
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| Microsoft admits big delay on Home Server bug fix
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| Microsoft has admitted that it will not deliver a fix to a Windows Home Server data corruption bug it first discovered late last year until June at the earliest.
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March 11, 2008 |
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| Microsoft Announces Windows Home Server
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| The company also announced that it will release a version of the software for system builders, named eight independent software vendors that will provide applications for Windows Home Server, and revealed its plans to kick off the Code2Fame Challenge for developers to create Windows Home Server hardware and software add-in solutions.
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May 18, 2007 |
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| Microsoft Clarifies Virtualization Licensing
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| Clarification is avialable, however, customers may face a new set of rules when Windows Server 2008 is released.
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June 12, 2007 |
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| Microsoft Enters Virtualization with Windows Server
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| Windows accounts for about two-thirds of shipments of computer-server operating systems, but Microsoft is considered a laggard in virtualization.
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February 27, 2008 |
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| Microsoft funds object of IBM's mainframe fury
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| Microsoft has put its loaded name behind PSI - a Silicon Valley-based start-up currently at war with IBM in the mainframe market.
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November 28, 2007 |
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| Microsoft has High Hopes for Windows Server 2008
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| The launch is vitally important to Microsoft, which hopes sales of the updated server software will spur wider adoption of Windows Vista by corporate customers that have so far resisted the urge to upgrade from Windows XP.
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February 27, 2008 |
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| Microsoft preempts Hyper-V release with virtualization vision
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| The software colossus has unleashed its most vocal assault to date on the virtualization marketing, revealing an acquisition, a much tighter relationship with Citrix and some licensing changes that include running versions of Vista inside virtual machines.
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January 21, 2008 |
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| Microsoft surprises itself with six-month late Hyper-V beta
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| Microsoft surprised itself this week by delivering a delayed beta of its Hyper-V virtualization software, less late than once expected.
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December 14, 2007 |
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| Microsoft Virtualization Technology on Schedule
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| Microsoft has finished most of the major work on its Hyper-V virtualization technology and expects it will be available for Windows Server 2008 on schedule in August, the company said Wednesday.
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March 20, 2008 |
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| Microsoft-Sun Embrace on Interoperability, Again
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| Do Microsoft and Sun executives run to shower after hugging like this?
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March 10, 2008 |
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| Microsoft's Hyper-V puts VMWare and Linux on notice
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| After his last foray into the "Linux guy reviews a Microsoft product" space, Jason Perlow is back — this time to take a look at Microsoft's Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualization solution built into the newly released Windows Server 2008.
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February 15, 2008 |
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| Microsoft, Sun expand their collaboration on servers, storage
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| Sun Microsystems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. announced two "milestones" on Monday in their ongoing alliance, including the official opening of a Sun/Microsoft Interoperability Center on Microsoft's campus in Redmond, Wash.
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March 11, 2008 |
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| New Dell Workstations Target the Enterprise
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| Dell has upgraded its line of workstations, introducing a quad-core system that packs graphics and processing power that the company said is the highest level of performance available on its workstations.
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November 28, 2007 |
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| New HP Offerings Speed Data Center Transformation
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| HP today announced a set of products and services designed to help customers transform their data centers from a standalone collection of physical assets into a virtual and adaptive infrastructure designed to rapidly meet changing business needs.
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March 17, 2008 |
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| New HP Storage Serves Midsize Businesses
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| As more medium-sized companies consolidate their storage, Hewlett-Packard seized an opportunity on Tuesday with a disk array it says is easier to work with than large-enterprise gear, but delivers more capabilities than entry-level storage.
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February 27, 2008 |
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| New Server Chips Quadruple Memory Capacity
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| Startup Metaram has developed a technique to pack more RAM onto a memory module.
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February 25, 2008 |
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| New Switch Expands HP Blade Server Options
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| The new HP 1:10Gb Ethernet BL-c switch provides a combination of 1 Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet links for HP ProLiant and Integrity server blades in the HP BladeSystem enclosure. HP resells the BNT switches as its own.
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June 1, 2007 |
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| Niveus Expands Storage Server Line With 4TB Pro Model
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| Unit uses Reflection technology to mirror updates with a master server.
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February 15, 2008 |
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| Nosing around IBM's Power6 blade
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| IBM has teased with scant details of its long-awaited updates to AIX and its Power6-based blade server line — but today the specs have dribbled out of Big Blue at last.
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November 7, 2007 |
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| Portly HP fires up double-wide Itanium blade
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| A long time ago, in a data centers far, far away, blade servers ran on laptop chips from Transmeta. These days companies such as HP pop double-wide, scorching hot Itanium-packed blades into their chassis.
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February 12, 2008 |
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| ProCurve Networking by HP Provides Backbone for Microsoft Technology Centers Worldwide
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| ProCurve Networking by HP today announced that its infrastructure products have been chosen as the standard for all Microsoft Technology Centers (MTCs) around the world.
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December 10, 2007 |
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| Rackable and Supermicro settle over server IP
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| Front-mounted I/O connectors safe again.
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May 8, 2007 |
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| Researcher Debunks Intel's Energy-Efficiency Claim
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| Recent tests by Neal Nelson & Associates, an independent computer performance consulting firm, have reported that in 36 of the 57 cases tested an AMD Opteron-based server delivered better power efficiency than a comparably configured Intel Xeon-based server.
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January 16, 2008 |
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| SAP, Intel Forge Xeon-Powered All-in-One Servers
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| The servers, designed for midmarket companies, go the extra mile to being self-contained solutions by baking in Novell SUSE.
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March 5, 2008 |
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| SGI slots 'Seaburg' chipset into blades
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| SGI this week is pushing a fresh batch of hardware into its Altix ICE blade server lineup. The company announced two new blade enclosures and new blade options.
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March 21, 2008 |
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| SGI to Offer Blades
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| Silicon Graphics, best known for developing supercomputers and other high-performance computing technology, is trying its hand at blade servers as a way to expand its offerings within the enterprise space.
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June 26, 2007 |
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| SME sector to 'explode with blades': IBM
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| Blade server market to be worth $11bn by 2010
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May 24, 2007 |
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| Startup Flashes Virtual Rack Switches
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| Blade Network Technologies puts its faith in rack-level virtualization.
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April 24, 2008 |
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| Stratus Unveils Two New Fault-Tolerant Systems
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| In addition to using dual-core Xeon chips in its low-end ftServer 2500 and midrange ftServer 4400, Stratus announced July 16 that it will offer support for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS4 operating system across its fault-tolerant line.
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July 16, 2007 |
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| Sun chum Oracle pushes database buyers to IBM
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| A couple of years back, Oracle chief Larry Ellison and then Sun CEO Scott McNealy held an event in Redwood City to renew their vows. Oracle signed on to ship Java for ten more years, and Sun started bundling Oracle's database on its servers at no charge. That last bit was meant to give Sun an edge over hardware rivals, although we can't claim to have heard of it ever making a difference in the market and aren't even sure the deal is still going.
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April 24, 2008 |
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| Sun preps 2048-thread monster
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| First off, Sun looks set for the imminent release of its first Niagara II-based servers – the T5120 and T5220 systems. Customers will see 1U and 2U boxes, respectively, each with one of the "Niagara II" or (more formally) UltraSPARC T2 chips. It looks like the eight-core, 64-thread chip will arrive at 1.5GHz.
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July 26, 2007 |
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| Sun sends Netra blades through 10GE wringer
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| Sun is dishing out new ACTA blade server gear for telcos sporting 10 Gigabit Ethernet — with all the copious prices usually found for equipment holding the AdvancedTCA telecom industry standards.
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November 15, 2007 |
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| Sun to do Xeon and Niagara blade thing next month
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| Sun Microsystems looks set to dish out its new UltraSPARC T1- and Xeon-based blades on June 6 at an event in Washington D.C.
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May 22, 2007 |
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| Sun unfurls four-core Xeon-fueled blade memory hole
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| In a statement, Sun boasted, "Since re-entering the blades market in mid-2006, Sun tied for #4 in blade server market share for factory revenue (Q3CY07), released 29 new blade and supporting products, and gained more than 300 new Sun Blade customers.
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February 21, 2008 |
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| Sun will have data centers after all
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| Sun Microsystems has returned to its senses and re-committed to having data centers.
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February 13, 2008 |
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| US funds exascale computing journey
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| Thanks to $7.4m in government funding a pair of national labs hope to throw their big brains at the most pressing problems facing supercomputer designers.
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February 22, 2008 |
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| VMware and HP Announce Agreement to Embed VMware ESX 3i on HP ProLiant Servers
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| Joint Solution Fast-tracks Customers to Virtualization; New VMware Infrastructure and HP Insight Control Bundles to Offer Seamless Physical and Virtual Platform Management
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February 26, 2008 |
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| Windows Home Server Debuts
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| Microsoft said Monday that the first product under the Windows Home Server line, HP's MediaSmart Server, is now available for pre-order and will be released later this month.
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November 5, 2007 |
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| Windows Server 2008 arrives with high hopes, great fanfare
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| Windows Server 2008 brings many eagerly anticipated admin-pleasing features such as a stripped-down mode called "Server Core" that does away with many unnecessary features that are normally installed, and a new virtualization platform—"Hyper-V"—that should increase Microsoft's foothold in this increasingly important market sector.
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February 27, 2008 |
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| Windows Server 2008 Pricing
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| The company said there would be approximately a 1% increase in pricing on the server, which Microsoft is hoping to make available in time for its Feb. 27, 2008 launch event in Los Angeles.
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November 13, 2007 |
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| Windows Server 2008: To keep things stable, you need new hardware
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| Microsoft has a growing number of beneficiaries to whom it must simultaneously appeal. There are OEM partners who want Windows Server to drive sales, and clients who at the same time plead for no more disruptions.
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February 29, 2008 |
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| XRackPro2 Server Rack Gets Air Filtration
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| GizMac Accessories has announced the release of smaller XRackPro2 server racks with air filtration. The company now sells 4U and 6U XRackPro2s for US$549.99 and $749.99, respectively.
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April 10, 2008 |
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| XRackPro2 Studio rack coming soon
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| GizMac Accessories on Friday announced details on their XRackPro2 Studio model, a new equipment rack especially designed for studios, home theaters or other applications that don't require servers.
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April 18, 2008 |
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