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Article | 14/09/2011 Servers with new Intel Xeon E5 chips due early 2012
Servers with new Xeon E5 chips based on the Sandy Bridge microarchitecture will become available early next year, Intel officials said on Tuesday.
Article | 7/09/2011 China taps IBM mainframe for online services
An IT services company in China has picked an IBM mainframe to provide online services for up to 300 million citizens, including many in rural areas w...
Article | 24/08/2011 IBM shines in strong Q2 server market
IBM's worldwide server revenue jumped a healthy 24.5 percent in the second quarter, putting it neck and neck with Hewlett-Packard for the top spot, ac...
Article | 11/08/2011 Cisco profit fell one-third in Q4
Cisco's profit in its fiscal fourth quarter fell about one-third from a year earlier, while its sales increased only 3.3 percent, the company reported...
Article | 4/08/2011 Dell sells preconfigured Hadoop system
Recognizing Apache Hadoop's growing presence in the field of data analysis, Dell will start selling servers preloaded with the open-source data proces...
Article | 3/08/2011 Google, data centers using less power than expected
Data centers have been using less electricity than you think ... or at least, compared with what they have in the past.
Article | 28/07/2011 Dell warranties servers for 'fresh-air cooling'
Dell said Thursday it will warranty servers to run at 113 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius) for a limited number of hours per year, so that cust...
Article | 21/07/2011 Apple tweaks applications, utilities for Lion
In case you hadn't noticed, Apple released a minor software update to its Mac OS on Wednesday, along with some modest updates to its hardware. However...
Article | 19/07/2011 New job for mainframes: Hosting private clouds
Mention cloud computing to a mainframe professional, and he's likely to roll his eyes. Cloud is just a much-hyped new name for what mainframes have do...
Article | 19/07/2011 IBM quarter driven by software, systems
Software and services fueled IBM growth in the second quarter of 2011, the company said Monday.
Article | 18/07/2011 SeaMicro crams 768 Atom cores in new cloud server
SeaMicro has crammed 768 Atom processor cores into its latest low-power SM10000-64HD server in an effort to provide a quick response time to Web trans...
Article | 12/07/2011 Meet IBM's new $75,000 mainframe
IBM never talks about the cost of its high-end mainframes, but when it comes to its low-end mainframe, price is a major focal point.
Article | 2/07/2011 Survey: US agencies aren't tracking data center use
Even though the U.S. White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has pushed government agencies to reduce the number of data centers they operat...
Article | 30/06/2011 Oracle calls HP suit over Itanium a 'publicity stunt'
Hewlett-Packard's lawsuit against Oracle over its decision to stop developing software for Intel's Itanium processors is a "publicity stunt" and meant...
Article | 27/06/2011 CA modernizes the mainframe with updated stack
Addressing some of the chief problems faced by mainframe operators today, CA Technologies has updated its stack of mainframe management software to he...