
Xeon
X86 System Sales Grow, Everything Else Shrinks
Sales of servers have always been tied very tightly to the regional and global economies and the ups and downs of various industries. But with the relentless pace of ...Full Article
HP Will Chase IBM Accounts To Grow Datacenter Biz
Sales of servers, storage, switching, software, and services at Hewlett-Packard's Enterprise Group were up a smidgen in its most recent quarter, but like its peers in the IT space, ...Full Article
Stacking Up Xeon E7 v2 Chips Against The Competition
Since Intel entered the server market formally in 1993, it has used its prowess in manufacturing and its ever-expanding sophistication in chip design to knock countless competitive chips out ...Full Article
Why Amazon Can’t Catch Lucera Financial Cloud
The Lucera cloud that is dedicated to high frequency trading, liquidity matching, and foreign exchange has opened up its doors to customers after building it out for the past ...Full Article
SAP HANA Wrings Performance From New Intel Xeons
The in-memory HANA database designed by SAP to radically improve the performance of queries and transaction processing has been a boon to the company. It is the fastest growing ...Full Article
Intel Aims Xeon E7 v2 At Big Memory Workloads
Big companies support thousands of users on their applications, they have big databases behind them, and they therefore need big iron. For those who want to migrate off of ...Full Article
Sneak Peeks At Some Future Open Compute Servers
Events like the Open Compute Summit are like show-and-tell for hardware geeks. It is a chance for system designers, builders, and in this case customers to give their peers ...Full Article
Lenovo Enters Datacenters With $2.3 Billion IBM X86 Server Deal
The many thousands of large enterprise customers, government agencies, and supercomputer labs that depend on IBM System x, BladeCenter, iDataPlex, and PureSystems servers will soon have a new partner: ...Full Article
Amazon Cranks Up I/O On New EC2 Cloud Slices
Cloud computing juggernaut Amazon Web Services has forged a new class of server instances for its EC2 compute cloud that feature the kind of high I/O that it says ...Full Article
IBM Again Rumored To Be Selling Off X86 Server Business
The rumors have started up again that IBM is getting ready to leave the X86 server business, with Dell and Fujitsu being mentioned as possible suitors. With the large ...Full Article