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Bamboo Systems, formerly Kaleao, claims its motherboard architecture is more power efficient than traditional designs that cater to x86 processors.
Most IT leaders making data center equipment purchases don't prioritize energy efficiency or environmental impact.
Non-traditional data center hardware makes the news at Gartner’s show focused on data center operations.
Google Cloud now offers Google Bare Metal Solution, a service that supplies hardware in the cloud for enterprises that want full control of the entire stack from operating system on up to their most important legacy apps.
By using two separate drive heads, a single drive effectively becomes two in Seagate's Exos 2X14 hard disk drive. Microsoft is testing the technology in its Azure data centers.
A new Ampere chip due out next year is single-threaded to avoid the 'noisy neighbor' problem that can impede customer workloads in multi-tenant cloud-provider networks.
Inphi claims its new signaling chips will triple throughput while reducing power draw for transmissions up to 100 kilometers.
Nvidia has upgraded its Volta line of Tesla GPU-accelerator cards to work faster using the same power as its old model.
Company says its Linux is to networking what Red Hat is to servers.
Intel is looking to offer a unified CPU, GPU, and platform architecture that Nvidia doesn’t have but AMD does.
PlatformDIGITAL offers a single source for global data-center coverage, capacity and connectivity. Implementation blueprints aim to allow customers to quickly deploy enterprise infrastructure where they need it.
New DXC CEO Mike Salvino talks about getting rid of distraction businesses to focus on what he calls the enterprise stack.
HPE's Cray will co-develop Fujitsu's A64FX CPU to meet the requirements of likely customers such as universities and national research laboratories.
U.S. Postal Service plans to use servers powered by Nvidia GPUs and deep learning software to train multiple AI algorithms for image recognition, yielding a tenfold increase in package-processing speed.
HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure gains artificial intelligence capabilities; HPE Primera storage platform gains composability features to boost agility and scalability.
Dell, HPE and Lenovo have more than doubled their AMD-powered server offerings. Meanwhile, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, and Microsoft Azure have announced plans to deploy Epyc processors in their data centers.
Strategic acquisition will give Digital Realty a huge boost globally, thanks to Interxion’s European data center sites and its interconnection capabilities linking Europe to Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.
The not-so-new line will go where eight cores will do instead of 28 cores.
New drive offers DRAM-like performance and is targeted at analytics and transaction workloads.
Data centers are being bought and sold at an increasing rate, although since they are often private transactions, solid numbers can be hard to come by.
Blockchain and containerized microservices can benefit from the mainframe’s integrated security and massive parallelization capabilities.
New VSP 5000 storage system is the fastest NVMe array on the market and covers everything from cloud integration to mainframes.
HPE hardware plus Nutanix's Enterprise Cloud OS and its AHV hypervisor create a combination for on-premises deployment that's intended to compete with cloud services.
Human error is the chief cause of downtime, a new study finds. Imagine that.
Like a flat-screen TV that's mounted to save floor space, the EcoStruxure Micro Data Center 6U can be hung from the wall in space-constrained data centers and edge computing environments.
New Vitis kit from FPGA vendor Xilinx will use familiar languages like C++ and Python for everything from IoT to video encoding.
Cloud and colocation sites will account for half of all data center equipment in just five years, according to 451 Research.
As more data moves through the network, efforts to keep up are lagging due to leadership and technology issues.
Samsung introduced a new generation of SSD memory chips that have fail-in-place technology, which allows the chips to gracefully recover from chip failure.
Oracle unveiled the Oracle Exadata X8M, which is designed to accelerate Oracle’s database applications, and announced a massive data center expansion.
Microsoft has partnered with Skytap to offer IBM Power9 instances on its Azure cloud service to run Power-based systems inside the Azure cloud.
Dell EMC has updated its PowerMax line of enterprise storage systems to offer Intel’s Optane persistent storage and NVMe-over-Fabric, both of which will give the PowerMax a big boost in performance.
Tests by ServeTheHome found that a server running two AMD Epyc processors can outperform a four-socket Intel system that costs considerably more.
USB4 could be a unifying interface that eliminates bulky cables and oversized plugs and provides throughput that satisfies everyone laptop users to server administrators.
Eclypsium discovered a vulnerability in three generations of Supermicro motherboards that could allow an attacker to remotely commandeer the server. A fix is already available.
HPE partners with VMware to integrate GreenLake and HPE’s Synergy composable infrastructure with VMware Cloud Foundation, offering an integrated cloud infrastructure.
Intel started shipping its 10nm Agilex FPGAs to early-access customers. It features a high-speed interconnect for IoT and networking use cases.
Mellanox unveiled two processors designed to offload network workloads from the CPU -- ConnectX-6 Dx and BlueField-2 – freeing the CPU to do its processing job.
Cerebras Systems unveils AI server offering that relies on a single massive processor rather than a slew of small ones working in parallel.
As the demand for natural voice processing grows for chatbots and AI-powered interactions, more companies will need systems to provide it. Nvidia says its platform can handle it.
With the release of its second generation of Epyc processors, the Epyc 7002 series, AMD finds it has a lot of new friends -- companies that want to use their technology.
Xilinx unveiled a new FPGA card, the Alveo U50, that it says can match the performance of a GPU in areas of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning.
The multiyear agreement will combine Lenovo hardware and liquid cooling technology with Intel chips and software.
Omni-Path Architecture, which Intel had high hopes for in the high-performance computing (HPC) space, has been scrapped after one generation.
ExtraHop discovered enterprise security and analytic software are "phoning home" and quietly uploading information to servers outside of customers' networks.
Xilinix's purchase of SolarFlare is part of the company's strategy to offer a full network and compute platform for the data center.
VMware will integrate Bitfusion technology into vSphere, bolstering VMware’s strategy of supporting AI- and ML-based workloads by virtualizing hardware accelerators.
The NVMe over Fabric (NVMe-oF) architecture is closer to becoming a formal specification. It's expected improve storage network fabric communications and network performance.