Lenovo Closes IBM Server Deal, Eyes Expansion
As it closes its deal to acquire IBM's System x X86 server business, Chinese computer giant Lenovo is setting an ambitious goal of $5 billion in server revenues in ...Full Article
Oracle Doubles Exalytics In-Memory Performance, Holds Price Steady
Back in July, Oracle updated its Exadata database cluster appliances with a custom Intel processor, and this week at its OpenWorld 2014 extravaganza in San Francisco, the software giant ...Full Article
HP ARMs Moonshot Servers For Datacenters
After what seems like an eternal wait, customers who want to give 64-bit ARM processors a whirl can finally get systems to play with. Hewlett-Packard is showing off Moonshot ...Full Article
IBM’s Power8 Enterprise Systems Loom
Back in July, as EnterpriseTech has previously reported, IBM's chief financial officer, Martin Schroeter, said that Big Blue was working on fleshing out the midrange and high-end of the ...Full Article
Rackspace Ramps Up Open Compute Iron
The Open Compute open source hardware project got its start more than three years ago when social media giant Facebook, which was at the time using custom server designs ...Full Article
AMD, Canonical Do OpenStack In A Box
The developers behind OpenStack have come a long way in adding fit and finish to successive releases of the cloud controller, but it is still a pain in the ...Full Article
Future Cray Systems To Unite Analytics And Simulation
Big data and analytics are not a threat to Cray. They are an opportunity. And importantly, the increasingly intertwined workloads of modeling, simulation, and analytics play to the strengths ...Full Article
Shared Memory Clusters: Observations On Persistent Memory
The other SMC articles in this series have referred to a notion called "memory." These articles have often intentionally not said so, but I have left the impression that ...Full Article
Intel Wants To Reshape Datacenters With Xeon E5
Intel rolled out its "Haswell" generation of Xeon E5-2600 processors at its developers' forum by positioning the third version of the chip as the engine that would help in ...Full Article
Intel Ups Performance Ante With ‘Haswell’ Xeon E5 Chips
Any company that bought racks of servers within the past six months is probably going to be annoyed this week. The drumbeat of Moore's Law continues apace with the ...Full Article
