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Article | 16/12/2010 Wikileaks attacks prove the Cloud is reliable
It's a strange world. When Amazon Web Services booted Wikileaks off its servers last week, many people (including me) said it raised significant quest...
Article | 7/12/2010 MIT: Light speed now a bottleneck in fastest networks
With global networks carrying complex time-sensitive data, the speed of light is actually becoming a significant source of latency, researchers have f...
Article | 3/12/2010 Oracle challenges IBM with 'Sparc Supercluster'
Oracle on Thursday stepped up its efforts to rebuild Sun's hardware business, announcing a high-performance clustered database system that could turn ...
Article | 2/12/2010 Microsoft quietly invests in IBM emulator TurboHercules
Continuing its low-key crusade for greater mainframe openness (or less IBM dominance of that market), Microsoft has invested an undisclosed amount of ...
Article | 30/11/2010 Server shipments, revenue grow in Q3, Gartner says
Gartner on Monday said worldwide server shipments and revenue went up during the third quarter, while sales for Unix servers based on the RISC and Ita...
Article | 30/11/2010 Server shipments, revenue grow in Q3, Gartner says
Gartner on Monday said worldwide server shipments and revenue went up during the third quarter, while sales for Unix servers based on the RISC and Ita...
Article | 20/11/2010 Intel: 1,000-core processor possible
An experimental Intel chip shows the feasibility of building processors with 1,000 cores, an Intel researcher has asserted.
Article | 21/11/2010 California's earthquake risk spurs supercomputing efforts
NEW ORLEANS -- The rush to build more powerful supercomputers is part of a larger race to solve some of mankind's biggest problems and threats, and on...
Article | 18/11/2010 Nvidia chief scientist: CPUs slowed by legacy design
When it comes to power-efficient computing, CPUs are weighed down by too many legacy features to outperform GPUs (graphics processing units) in execut...
Article | 17/11/2010 5 questions to ask your data center
While tech companies are trying to outdo each other in data center design and energy efficiency, small businesses still can find choosing a data cente...
Article | 17/11/2010 Microsoft turns Windows Azure into cloud-based supercomputer
Windows HPC Server customers will soon be able to run high-performance computing workloads on Windows Azure, Microsoft is announcing at this week's SC...
Article | 17/11/2010 AMD to ship first Bulldozer server chips in Q3
Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday said it will start shipping next-generation Opteron server chips based on the new Bulldozer architecture starting in...
Article | 11/11/2010 Maximizing server uptime: Best practices
In an IT world full of elusive goals, there's probably no target as slippery and generally elusive as server uptime.
Article | 9/11/2010 Arm faces uphill battle in server market
Arm has entered the server market with Marvell Semiconductor announcing a chip based on its processor architecture, but customer acceptance and design...
Article | 6/11/2010 RIP XServe: Apple pulls the plug, offers alternatives
Apple announced the end of the XServe line, effective January of 2011. The small and loyal Apple market may be disappointed by the loss, but Apple is ...