Modular Machines Take A Bite Out Of Racks And Blades
Enterprises and some supercomputing centers took a shining to blade servers a decade ago and these converged platforms, which pack servers, storage, and switching into a single box with ...Full Article
Cisco Gets The Lead Out With ‘Fast IT’
Cisco Systems wants to ride the data-driven wave dubbed the Internet of Everything to take its Unified Computing System architecture from the datacenter to the networked sensors that the ...Full Article
Cisco Targets Hyperscale With Modular UCS Iron
Five years ago, Cisco Systems got out in front of the pack with converged server and switching and a unified Ethernet fabric for server and storage traffic in its ...Full Article
How Microsoft Is Using FPGAs To Speed Up Bing Search
Microsoft has dug in for a long and perhaps uphill battle with search engine juggernaut Google, which has three times the reach in search. That means Microsoft has to ...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
A Sneak Peek At VMware EVO:RACK Cluster Appliances
Contrary to some of the rumors going around ahead of the “Project Marvin” EVO cluster appliances launch at VMworld this week, server virtualization juggernaut VMware does not want to ...Full Article
Cray CS-Storm Packs A Serious GPU Punch
GPU accelerators for technical workloads are apparently like potato chips. You can’t have just one, or even two. That is why Cray has forged a new rack-based variant of ...Full Article
VMware Takes On Hyperconvergence Upstarts With EVO:RAIL
For the past several years, VMware has concentrated on turning server virtualization into clouds, and it left one of its flanks unguarded as it coped with the onslaught of ...Full Article
Nutanix Launches Fat Cluster Nodes, Hits $200 Million Run Rate
Driven by the need to support "monster VMs" for big database and email servers, hyperconverged cluster maker Nutanix is beefing up its appliance server nodes with heftier machines that ...Full Article
