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Cramming 220 PB In A Modular Datacenter

Don't try to lift this by yourself. In the search for ever-cheaper and ever-denser storage, the customers that drive the Data Center Solutions unit at Dell have asked the ...Full Article

Dell Pushes Up Server Density With FX

Since founding its Data Center Solutions unit back in May 2006, which began with a custom server drawn on the back of a bar napkin at the Driskell Hotel ...Full Article

New Dell GM Talks System Trends

It has been a year now since Dell took itself private and removed itself from the prying eyes of Wall Street investors. The company had its share of drama ...Full Article

Private Azure Clouds Come To Dell Hardware

Signaling its shift to a "converged infrastructure" model, Microsoft announced a series of moves this week designed to flesh out its Azure cloud offering, including a preconfigured cloud appliance ...Full Article

Weak Growth For Servers In Q2, But Still Growth

The global economy seems to be improving, despite political unrest in various parts of the globe, and the server market managed to get some growth in both revenues and ...Full Article

Server Makers Jockey For “Haswell” Xeon Pole Position

With VMware's VMworld extravaganza winding down, the talk will now shift from virtual servers to physical ones. Everyone expects for Intel to launch its next-generation "Haswell" Xeon E5 processors ...Full Article

Convey-Dell FPGA Appliance Accelerates Hyperscale Image Resizing

Convey Computer, a maker of hybrid supercomputers based on a mix of X86 processors and field programmable gate array (FPGA) chips, is teaming up with Dell's Data Center Solutions ...Full Article

Dell Taps Nutanix For Converged Server-SAN Appliances

If Dell had not spent so much money taking itself private last year, it might be spending billions of dollars acquiring converged system upstart Nutanix. But instead – and ...Full Article

The Rise Of Server Upstarts

The battle between the tier one incumbent server makers and Cisco Systems and the custom server makers continued in the first quarter of the year, and the upstarts are ...Full Article