Inside IBM’s “Hollow Core”
Like any other seller of processors and systems in the datacenter, IBM is in an uphill battle with Intel, whose Xeon processors have become the de facto standard in ...Full Article
ARM Servers To Get Muscle From Microsoft?
Microsoft is reportedly – and not unexpectedly – developing a variant of the Windows Server operating system that runs on ARM server processors. Bloomberg reports that Microsoft has a ...Full Article
Database Hotshots Build Warehouse From Scratch For The Cloud
It may seem that the last thing the world needs is another database or data store, but a new stealthy startup founded by a team of database and analytics ...Full Article
Hyperconverged Systems Go Mainstream
In a way, Hewlett-Packard, through its LeftHand Networks storage acquisition, was one of the pioneers of the hyperconverged systems market, although it didn't talk about it at the time ...Full Article
Intel Datacenter Biz Profits From Hyperscale, HPC Build Outs
In most cases, saying the datacenter is hot is a bad thing, but not so when talking about the financial results of chip maker Intel. The company just reported ...Full Article
VMware Pushes Cloud Scale Up To 100K VMs With vRealize
As part of a rebranding campaign that started back at VMworld a month and a half ago, server virtualization juggernaut VMware changed the brands on its various cloud management ...Full Article
The Myth Of The Green Datacenter
Here's the reality when it comes to datacenter energy consumption: If the cloud industry were a country, according to a recent study, it would be the fifth largest energy ...Full Article
SolidFire Aims Lower With All-Flash Arrays, Raises Cash
All-flash array upstart SolidFire, which was founded by a team of techies with expertise in online gaming, cloud computing, and enterprise storage, is launching smaller-scale versions of its eponymous ...Full Article
IBM Takes On Big Workloads With Power8 Enterprise Systems
Customers running big workloads on IBM's largest Power Systems servers got a preview this week of the high-end Power8 machines that the company will be rolling out over the ...Full Article
HP Breaks Itself Into Back Office And Front Office Halves
They could have called one Hewlett and the other one Packard, but instead, as HP breaks itself into two halves, it is calling the part that sells PCs and ...Full Article
