
Broadwell Xeon D Chips Give Intel Datacenter Breadth
The first Xeon processor aimed at datacenter workloads that is based on Intel’s “Broadwell” core has been launched. …
The first Xeon processor aimed at datacenter workloads that is based on Intel’s “Broadwell” core has been launched. …
When the OpenPower Foundation was formed a year and a half ago, IBM had a number of reasons, driven by enlightened self-interest, for fostering a partnerships with Google, Nvidia, Mellanox Technologies, and Tyan. …
Sometimes it takes a bit of tweaking to make a technology that is created for supercomputing centers more suitable for high-end enterprise customers, even sophisticated ones that are not afraid to take risks and try something different. …
When Lenovo Group bought the System x division from IBM last fall, it got a lot more than a business that sells rack and tower servers based on X86 processors. …
Sometime before the end of this year, it will be possible to get a petabyte of raw flash storage capacity that fits within a 3U rack enclosure, and if current trends persist, such a device will cost the same or less than a disk array equipped with reasonably capacious and zippy disk drives. …
Server maker Lenovo might have just shelled out billions of dollars to acquire IBM’s System x X86 server business, but don’t be confused. …
In an ideal world, you would not buy a server unless you knew how all of the components that comprise it would work together for several years supporting your specific applications. …
Operating systems matter and they always will matter on the systems that run the applications of the world. …
It is no accident that virtualizing the network has taken longer than virtualizing servers or storage, and it is similarly not a coincidence that the hyperscale datacenter operators and a small number of very large businesses have decided to build their own switches and routers operating systems for these devices. …
The graphics processor business was humming along as Nvidia ended its fiscal 2015 year in late January. …
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