Goldman Sachs And Fidelity Bank On Open Compute
What started out as a desire by Facebook to control its own infrastructure five years ago and evolved into the Open Compute Project to open source hardware and datacenter ...Full Article
Microsoft Joins The Open Source Hardware Movement
By virtue of its many online applications and its fast-growing Windows Azure compute and storage cloud, Microsoft has become one of the dominant players in the cloud in a ...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
AMD Etches “Warsaw” Opterons For Financial Services Friends
AMD is taking a trip down the Opteron 6300 lane one last time with the launch of the "Warsaw" variants of its high-end server processors. The company has been ...Full Article
Chinese Startup To Make Its Own Power8 Server Chips
IBM has added another member to its OpenPower Consortium, which seeks to expand the use of Power processors in commercial systems. The Chinese government has made no secret that ...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
IBM Goes Modular And Flashy With X6 Systems
IBM, like other system makers, is eager to start selling new machines based on Intel’s forthcoming “Ivy Bridge-EX” Xeon E7 v2 processors. So eager, in fact, that it is ...Full Article
SGI To Paint SAP HANA In-Memory Appliance UltraViolet
Systems maker SGI and application and database software maker SAP are teaming up to create a big, bad system for running SAP's HANA in-memory database. The partnership will, says ...Full Article
Intel Maps Out The Year Ahead For Xeon Server Chips
Intel has a busy couple of months ahead refreshing its Xeon server processors, and companies that are getting ready to launch new software projects this year will be in ...Full Article
New IBM Xeon Server Designs Leverage Flash
Big Blue will kick off the new season of server announcements at an event held at the New York Stock Exchange on January 16 and in a webcast that ...Full Article
