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IBM's Efforts to Expand The Use of Its Power Chips in Hyperscale Data Centres
Apr 30, 2014IBM's efforts to expand the use of its Power chips in hyperscale data centres just got a big shot in the arm from Google. The online giant showed its first home-built server board based on IBM's upcoming Power8 processor at an IBM ...
Tags: IT, IBM, Software, Computer Products
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HP Confirmed Wednesday That Its Revenue Will Decline Slightly Next Year
Oct 11, 2013It doesn’t take much to please Hewlett-Packard’s investors these days. HP confirmed Wednesday that its revenue will decline slightly next year, but the mention of “pockets of growth” sent hearts aflutter. HP is ...
Tags: HP, Hewlett-Packard
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UNIX Now Finds Itself in a Slow,Inexorable Decline
Aug 21, 2013Unix, the core server operating system in enterprise networks for decades, now finds itself in a slow, inexorable decline. IDC predicts that Unix server revenue will slide from $10.2 billion in 2012 to $8.7 billion in 2017, and Gartner sees ...
Tags: UNIX, Computer Products, software
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The University of St Andrews Slashed Its Power Bills and Carbon Emissions
Aug 16, 2013The University of St Andrews, one of the oldest universities in the world, has slashed its power bills and carbon emissions with a radical process of server consolidation and virtualisation. The project, which is ongoing, involved ...
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Linux Developers' Role Is Changing Says The Linux Foundation
Jun 21, 2013Linux developers were once just that, developers. But their role is changing says the Linux Foundation, which is expanding its training options to help them. The foundation, an industry supported non-profit, has added two courses to its ...
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A New Wave of Sparc and IBM Power Chips for The Servers Will Be Unwrapped
Jun 19, 2013Demand for mainframe and high-performance Unix servers is falling, but a new wave of SPARC and IBM Power chips for the servers will be unwrapped at the Hot Chips conference in late August. IBM, Oracle and Fujitsu -- the main suppliers of ...
Tags: Oracle, IBM, Unix Server Processor
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Server Sales Fell by Five Per Cent in The First Quarter of 2013
May 29, 2013Server sales fell by five per cent in the first quarter of 2013, with IBM, HP, Fujitsu and, especially, Oracle hard hit. Only Dell among the top five server makers increased sales and market share. Market leader IBM claimed a 25.5 per ...
Tags: HP, IBM, Computer Products
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Any Deal by IBM to Sell Business to Lenovo Is Likely to Focus on Low-End X86 Hardware
Apr 23, 2013Any deal by IBM to sell parts of its server business to Lenovo is likely to focus on low-end commodity x86 hardware, not higher-end x86 systems such as IBM's PureSystems and iDataPlex servers, an industry analyst said Thursday. IBM ...
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Oracle's Unveiling of a Batch of Servers Based on New Sparc Processors
Apr 11, 2013Oracle's Unveiling of a batch of servers based on new Sparc processors late last month marked what could be the start of an expected shift toward standardizing the vendor's two families of Unix servers on a single chip architecture. ...
Tags: Oracle, Chip Design
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Oracle Has Extended Its Data Center Fabric to Its Sparc-Based Unix Platforms
Apr 3, 2013Oracle has extended its data center fabric to its Sparc-based Unix platforms, promising to let enterprises tie more servers and applications into the high-speed infrastructure. The fabric technology, which Oracle acquired in its purchase ...
Tags: Oracle, Data Center Fabric, Sparc Systems
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Oracle Has Announced a Batch of Servers Based on New Sparc Processors
Mar 26, 2013Oracle has announced a batch of servers based on new Sparc processors and in the process has begun an expected shift toward converging its two families of Unix servers onto a single chip architecture. Oracle sells two lines of Unix ...
Tags: Oracle, Sparc Systems, Chip Architecture
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Jordan Has Unveiled a 25-Teraflop Supercomputer Based on Sony Playstation 3 (PS3) Hardware
Mar 12, 2013Jordan - the country, not the model - has unveiled a 25-teraflop supercomputer based on Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) hardware. The IMAN1 computer had its first public outing at the MENA ICT Forum in Amman last week, unveiled by Zaid Abudayeh, ...
Tags: supercomputer, Jordan, Sony PlayStation 3
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Cisco Systems Has Entered The List of The Top 5 Server Vendors for The First Time
Mar 4, 2013Cisco Systems has entered the list of the top 5 server vendors for the first time, drawing level with Fujitsu and Oracle in a tie for fourth place, according to research firm IDC. It’s a symbolic victory for Cisco that comes four ...
Tags: Cisco Systems, server vendors, IDC
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Cisco Systems Has Entered The List of The Top 5 Server Vendors for The First Time
Mar 1, 2013Cisco Systems has entered the list of the top 5 server vendors for the first time, drawing level with Fujitsu and Oracle in a tie for fourth place, research firm IDC said on Wednesday. It's a symbolic victory for Cisco that comes four ...
Tags: Cisco Systems, server, Fujitsu, Oracle
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Intel Has Scaled Back Plans for The Next Version of Itanium in a Move
Feb 17, 2013Intel has scaled back plans for the next version of Itanium in a move that raises questions about the future of the 64-bit server chip, used primarily in Hewlett-Packard's high-end Integrity servers. In a short notice posted quietly to ...
Tags: Intel, Itanium, server chip